Blog Archive: March 2009
Welcome to Ilyce Glink's blog! Here you'll find Ilyce's latest insights on personal finance advice, real estate advice and consumer issues. Come back often for timely and interesting posts on a wide variety of topics.
Added March 24, 2009 by Melanie G. Rogers
If you've ever thought you'd like to rewrite the tax code or share your opinion on taxes with the IRS, here's your chance.
The Internal Revenue Service seeks volunteers for its Taxpayer Advisory Panel. TAP provides feedback to the Treasury Department, the IRS and the National Taxpayer Advocate, an…
Topics:
taxes,
IRS,
income tax
Added March 24, 2009 by Melanie G. Rogers
April 15 is approaching quickly. As you're gathering your tax documents or preparing your taxes, don't forget to claim eligible contributions to charity.
The Internal Revenue Service released 10 tips this morning to help you take advantage of these when filing your taxes:
Contributions must be made to…
Topics:
taxes,
IRS,
tax deduction
Added March 23, 2009 by Melanie G. Rogers
Existing home sales rose by 5.1 percent in February as compared with January, announced the National Association of Realtors this morning.
But they fell 4.6 percent from February 2008.
The median home price fell to $165,400, down from $195,800 a year earlier. NAR's chief economist, Lawrence Yun…
Topics:
real estate,
selling,
housing market,
real estate market,
national association of realtors,
home buying
Added March 22, 2009 by Ilyce R. Glink
Welcome back to the Ilyce Glink Show. Once again, it's been an interesting week:
Topics:
refinance mortgage,
taxes,
interest rates,
mortgage lenders,
IRA,
Roth IRA,
unemployment