Turbo Tax Free Trial!
February 4, 2010
A free trial of Turbo Tax? If you visit the TurboTax site you’ll notice buttons that say “Start for Free”. You can actually do more than start, you can complete your whole tax return for free without even creating an account with any version of TurboTax online. You don’t have to pay until you e-file or […]
High Deductible Health Insurance Plans Not for Everyone
February 2, 2010
High deductible health insurance plans have lower premiums, much higher deductibles, and are often tied into a Health Savings Account where you can accumulate money pre-tax year after year; as long as you don’t spend it all on health care costs. Of course if you have very high medical costs and/or don’t put much money […]
9 Mistakes People Make with their IRA
January 29, 2010
People make a lot of mistakes when it comes to IRA and 401(k)-related decisions. And I can’t blame them. The tax code is obscenely complex. That said, there’s no need for you to make these mistakes. 1. Converting to a Roth when it makes no sense Just because you can convert your traditional IRA to […]
The Cost of Sick Kids
January 28, 2010
Our family has spent most of the last two weeks with some form of head cold or stomach bug. It all seems to start at daycare when our son gets sneezed on by another kid or our baby girl chews on a toy after a sick baby. One of them brings home the germs and […]
Mike Piper at ObliviousInvestor.com
January 26, 2010
Mike is a twenty-something guy who writes about investing over at Oblivious Investor. Oblivious Investor is the term he uses to describe people who block out all the noise surrounding investing and focus on the things which are important. It’s Mike’s belief that most of what the media tells people about investing is irrelevant. I […]
TurboTax Online Edition
January 25, 2010
Did you know TurboTax online editions offer the same functionality that the desktop versions of the tax software provide? I wasn’t aware of this until my recent chat with Bob Meighan, chief customer advocate for Turbo Tax. Last time I covered our conversation on the benefits of tax preparation software, who TurboTax is for and […]
TurboTax Software vs Manual Income Tax Returns
January 22, 2010
TurboTax vice president, Bob Meighan is back again today to talk about the benefits of tax preparation, who TurboTax is and isn’t for, and when people tend to do their income tax return. In the first segment we covered Bob’s role as consumer advocate for TurboTax and what types of tax questions are troubling customers […]
TurboTax Software Inside Edition
January 21, 2010
TurboTax vice president, Bob Meighan, gave me a few minutes of his time recently to talk about the Turbo Tax product and what goes on behind the scenes to make the tax preparation software as smart as it is. Bob’s the vice president of consumer advocacy for TurboTax and has worked at Intuit since 1991 […]
Man vs Debt – Who Will Win?
January 16, 2010
Man vs Debt is a site that I enjoy, partly because the author, Adam Baker, is doing something that I was too scared to do. I’ll explain. After graduating from college, my wife and I discussed moving to Australia for a year or two for one last “adventure” before settling into our jobs. The plan […]
Lost Credit Card Q&A
January 14, 2010
I lost my credit card a week ago and have been waiting to report a lost card in the hopes that it would turn up. I’ve been logging on every day to check for purchases on my lost card, our American Express Blue Cash, and hadn’t seen any activity since the day it went missing. Luckily, […]
