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• Who owes the IRS millions? Uncle Sam

  Published: September 1, 2007, 1:39 pm

  Tags: Business, Irs, State Local, Taxes, Work Job Career

  What about the workers? Technically, you are responsible for paying your taxes, regardless of the mechanism, withholding in this case, used. But if your boss has been taking out payroll taxes from your check, the IRS typically seeks to get the money that you paid, but that your employer neglected to pass along, from the company.

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• How not to use PowerPoint

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:22 pm

  Tags: Humor, Work Job Career

  you plan to work this weekend on a PowerPower presentation, stand-up comic Don McMillan has some important tips for you. McMillan, who bills himself as a corporate comedian (hmmm, I thought that was the CEO's unofficial title), knows of what he speaks. Before hitting the comedy circuit, McMillan spent 10 years as an engineer at IBM,

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• Final tax-filing deadline fast approaching

  Published: September 24, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Filing, Taxes, Work Job Career

  done. The IRS and its new workers would appreciate any help you can give them by filing at least a bit before the drop-dead date. Getting computer help: For you folks who plan to use a software program to finally fill out your returns, I want to point you in the direction of my tax-blogging colleague William Perez at About.com: Tax

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• Making the most of open season

  Published: October 24, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Taxes, Work Job Career

  And if you've been at your job for a while, don't just assume that what you signed up for last year, or the last few years, is still appropriate. Not only could your circumstances have changed in the last 12 months, but it's also very possible that your employer may have changed, for better or worse, what it offered during the last benefits

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• Revisiting benefits open season

  Published: November 5, 2007, 4:53 pm

  Tags: Taxes, Work Job Career

  Since I didn't put one of my own posts in today's Carnival of Taxes: Return to Tax Standard Time, consider this my contribution to edition #24. Gerri Willis, personal finance columnist for CNNMoney.com, today talks about four ways to wisely navigate your company's benefit enrollment season. They are: Take advantage of flexible spending.

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• Worst. Workspace. Ever.

  Published: November 14, 2007, 9:22 am

  Tags: Work Job Career

  spends several hours a week working in other offices and buildings as his job requires. And within weeks, his dismal workspace is scheduled to be renovated. You can see larger photos of Gunnells' cube and other working conditions that are only slightly less dismal at this Wired.com page. Time for a new job: If your workplace is getting

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• Office holiday party etiquette

  Published: December 8, 2007, 6:05 pm

  Tags: Business, Deductions, Work Job Career

  Weltman) and About.com Career Planning. Be sure to check out the links for more office holiday party etiquette. Job hunting help from the IRS: If you do commit an office party faux pas or simply decide that it's time to escape your cubicle, then put job hunting at the top of your New Year's resolution list. Myriad blogs -- Get That

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• Some random, and yes, tax-related, thoughts on a Friday afternoon

  Published: January 11, 2008, 5:57 pm

  Tags: Finances, Taxes, Work Job Career

  I'm complaining about having work. No self-employed small business person is ever going to say too many jobs are a bad thing. But they do sometimes make you want to take a moment and scream. [Brief intermission.] OK, that's out of the way. Now a couple of things I'd like to share. We get letters, lotsa letters: First, thanks to all the

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• Home office tax pros and cons

  Published: January 22, 2008, 6:08 pm

  Tags: Business, Taxes, Work Job Career

  the tax considerations of working from your residence might be appropriate. The Taxpayer Advocate's recent report to Congress cites government data showing the number of home offices jumped about 20 percent between 1999 and 2005. The report also estimates that slightly over half of small business are home-based. But, according to the

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• State-by-state effects of Obama's Social Security wage cap elimination plan

  Published: June 4, 2008, 9:05 am

  Tags: Politics, State Local, Taxes, Work Job Career

  is $102,000 for a single worker. That means that the maximum Social Security tax of 12.4 percent for an individual is $12,648. Half of that is paid by the worker, the other half by the employer. There is no wage cap on the Medicare tax portion, another 2.9 percent, also paid equally by workers and their companies. Together these taxes

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• Gas tax holiday is dead, higher gas tax is possible

  Published: July 19, 2008, 5:04 pm

  Tags: Autos, Business, Politics, Taxes, Work Job Career

  who would lose their jobs if the fuel tax money flow was halted. The graphic below from the Associated Press shows the projected distribution of highway-related jobs that would have disappeared had the fuel tax been suspended for three months. An analysis by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee indicated that a

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• Unwelcome economic equity

  Published: July 22, 2008, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Finances, Work Job Career

  of parity with men in the workplace. Unfortunately, it's not exactly what we wanted. The story's headline says it all: Women Are Now Equal as Victims of Poor Economy. Citing Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the article reports that "for the first time since the women's movement came to life, an economic recovery has come and gone,

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• New reporting to IRS of credit card transactions

  Published: August 4, 2008, 10:29 am

  Tags: Business, Taxes, Work Job Career

  Here's another non-housing related measure from the recently enacted Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008. Credit and debit card processors now will have to provide the IRS with additional information. "Payment cards (both credit cards and debit cards) are an increasingly common form of payment to merchants for property and services

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