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How Long Should I Keep My Tax Paperwork?

How Long Should I Keep My Tax Paperwork?

By Guest| 2018-02-19T10:13:49-05:00 August 18th, 2014|

“How long should I keep my tax paperwork?” This is a tax question people ask me regularly, often while they are pleading to be released from the towering burden of mounds and mounds of tax records. It’s probably not practical to store the paperwork forever, but you know my “rule of records”: the minute you [...]

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Retroactive Tax Changes from the Fiscal Cliff

Retroactive Tax Changes from the Fiscal Cliff

By Guest| 2018-03-30T11:46:29-05:00 February 11th, 2013|

We waited and waited all through 2012. Finally, after the calendar flipped over to 2013, our legislators agreed on tax legislation. Some of it gave us permanence in long-disputed areas. Other parts of the legislation are temporary—they work as stopgaps to allow taxpayers to function for the next year or so. Included in the legislation [...]