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Better Taxes In 2019
Finally, good news on tax day. Every year, filing income taxes provides yet one more data point in my roller coaster ride through America’s wealth classes. This year, despite making just about the same as the last few years, I … Continue reading
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A Day Off For Taxes
Surprise! I made about $1,000 more in 2017 than in 2016 – and paid about 15% more in income tax. So much for relaxing on the surprise of a day off. My common refrain: “Next year will be better. Right?” … Continue reading
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Lower Income Higher Taxes
Whew. I paid my taxes, again, of course. I’m glad that’s over, though the costs will linger. My income taxes continue their inverse relationship with logic. The less I make, the more I pay. I suspect I’m not the only … Continue reading
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Tricky Taxes Trips And Traps
Thanks, Elizabeth. It was time to file my taxes, and some fluky results in TurboTax were nicely resolved by Elizabeth from their help desk. Thanks to all my friends I called while fighting off anxiety attacks as I struggled through … Continue reading
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Super Bowl Ads Sigh In 2016
Oh, advertisers. For one day each of the last fifty years you’ve publicly exercised your power during the Super Bowl, the event that seems to be the ultimate in sports competitions but that really only makes sense within 5% of … Continue reading
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Tax Weirdness 2015
Ah, spellcheck, you’ll be asked to work hard tonight because filing today’s taxes was taxing and the recovery cocktail couldn’t wait for me to finish dinner and the blog. Taxes were so much simpler (and sometimes cheaper) when I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, consulting, entrepreneur, health care, investing, jobs, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, speaking, stocks, taxes, teaching, TurboTax, unemployment, wealth
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Tax Inequity Increase
“I paid lower taxes when I was rich.” I said that last year. This year proves it out even more. Income was down about 40%. Income tax was up about 40%. I was traumatized by the numbers. Surely our system … Continue reading
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Tagged books, capital gains, Charity, consulting, entrepreneur, Facebook, health care, housing, income tax, investing, jobs, LTBH, mortgage, personal finance, photos, poverty, self employment, social media, stocks, tax, TurboTax, Twitter, unemployment, wealth
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Puzzle Fixes
This blog is about balancing life and money, mostly, usually, well at least that’s true within a lot of leeway. Blogs are good for open-ended musings. But I don’t expect that this blog, nor balancing life and money, to be … Continue reading
