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Recent Entries in taxes

• 2010 Year End Graphs

  December 31, 2010 10:24 PM
  It's the year-end graph blow-out sale!  There will be no pretense of analysis.  Instead, I will simply bombard you with pretty colors.Portfolio Return vs Stocks -- 2010Portfolio Return vs Bonds -- 2010Portfolio Return vs Commodities -- 2010Portfolio Return vs Balanced... 0

• Estimating Taxes

  December 11, 2010 1:33 AM
  One of the exercises I do is periodically calculate my estimated tax bill for the coming year to fine-tune my withholdings.  Now there are several easy ways to do this.  If you used a tax program to do taxes the... 0

• 2009 tax extension filed

  April 8, 2010 3:13 PM
  As I begin writing, there are 7 more days before the traditional tax due date. I've known my rough tax estimate since January but I finally took the time to download every statement to enter into TaxAct. For a few... 1

• ESOP fees

  February 26, 2010 9:48 AM
  A few weeks ago, I wrote about Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) as a possible exit strategy for a privately held company. My company is in the initial stages of researching this option. To that end, I some researching and... 0

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

  February 11, 2010 3:48 AM
  As a small company with continual day-to-day involvement from the founders, exit strategies are hard to come by. Finding a buyer willing to pay a large amount of money upfront for an operation that might stop being profitable after management... 2

• April 15 ... I mean June 15

  January 25, 2010 11:31 AM
  I decided to take an early look at my taxes to avoid being overly surprised by an April 15 tax bill. While I have yet to get most of my tax documents, I can make good enough guesses to get... 0