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Obama vs. McCain on Financial Matters Part 1- Taxes

Posted October 15th, 2008 by Sidd | No Comments

Topic
Obama
McCain
Sources

Taxes
Overview: Raise Taxes for the super rich. Lower taxes for everyone else. The less money you make the more your taxes are lowered.
Overview: Lower taxes for everyone. The more the money you make, the more your taxes are lowered
Source 1

After visiting both the candidates websites (McCain on Taxes, Obama on Taxes), I found a lot [...]

Taxes :(

Posted February 22nd, 2008 by Sidd | No Comments

I finally started doing my taxes. I’m using taxact again this year (because it is free) like I did last year but taxact won’t let me import last year’s data unless I pay for the Deluxe version. Anyway so I filled out my information again. It is a pain in the ass calculating the purchase [...]

Virginia State Taxman and ITIN->SSN

Posted March 19th, 2007 by Sidd | No Comments

I cannot use VA ifile this year because the online ifile will not let me enter the spouse SSN instead of the ITIN (even though the box is editable – clicking on Next gives an error saying – “The SSN you entered for your Spouse is Invalid”). So I called up Virginia Department of Taxation [...]

Got 1099s with both an SSN and ITIN? Heres what to do with Taxes..

Posted March 3rd, 2007 by Sidd | No Comments

If you got an SSN mid-year and still have 1099s for an ITIN, you need to send a letter to the IRS saying that you have an SSN now and you will use it to file your tax returns instead of your ITIN. This information is straight from talking to IRS customer service. I couldn’t [...]