Taxes Simplified
Standard Deduction vs Itemizing and How to Choose
Every year you gather mortgage statements, donation receipts and medical bills, then tax software tells you the standard...
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Taxes Simplified
Every year you gather mortgage statements, donation receipts and medical bills, then tax software tells you the standard...
Retirement Planning
When you work for yourself, nobody sets up a 401(k) for you, and nobody nudges you to contribute.
Investing for Beginners
You have decided to open an IRA, and the brokerage form asks you to choose Roth or Traditional before you have even picked a...
Saving & Banking
You have $20,000 sitting in savings that you will not need for a couple of years, and the bank keeps nudging the rate down...
Retirement Planning
A reader emailed me last spring with a letter from her IRA custodian that said she owed a withdrawal of 18,868 dollars by...
Taxes Simplified
Every spring someone shows me a closet shelf with eleven years of tax folders, a shoebox of gas station receipts from 2014, and...