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Be careful, choosing the best bank account. If you want to survive the current economy you need to stay up-to-date, especially with the banks news. While Bank of America announced ...

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Bank factoring usually means the process in which a bank purchases the receivables account of a company rather than lending against them. A lot of major banks and an increasing ...

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5 May 2012
Posted by Joseph Lowrie

Taking your family in an adventurous trip can be fun. You can go camping in National park and take your kids to enjoy the fresh air in the park. However, you also need to prepare the equipments that you should bring on your camping trip. You have to go in full preparation for you are bringing small kids who need special equipments.

You can go to Shopwiki.com to find out the basic equipments that you should bring on your camping trip. This website shares the basic tips for camping trip.

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9 Apr 2012
Posted by Joseph Lowrie

We’re currently in the process of redesigning  TaxWorks.com and would like your input.

We track the most frequented pages and topics.  However, we would like to know what you feel are the most important things on our website. What do you currently like? What do you feel is missing?

Please take a few minutes to complete a six-question survey and provide any additional input.  We value your feedback.

1 Apr 2012
Posted by Joseph Lowrie



Last week the IRS published the following Private Letter Rulings and Chief Counsel Advice relating to international taxation.  There were no PLRs or CCAs for the 9th week and no international related PLRs or CCAs for the 11th week.

PLR 201210009:  Late Canadian registered retirement savings plan (“RRSP”) deferral election.  The following is a quote from the PLR:

[The Taxpayer] retired and became eligible to receive benefits from two Canadian pension plans.  In addition, [the Taxpayer’s] mother, a Canadian citizen and resident, passed away in Year 3.  Because of these two events, [the Taxpayer] started doing independent research on various tax issues and he consulted a local accounting firm.  At this point, [the Taxpayer] first learned of the potential tax issues concerning RRSPs, including the need to make an election to defer U.S. taxation

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30 Mar 2012
Posted by Joseph Lowrie

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The Minnesota Real Estate Team strongly believes in the importance of offering informative buying and selling seminars for those interested in real estate here in the Twin Cities area. As a result of this belief, the team has consistently offered these free seminars over the past six years on a monthly basis.

Perhaps you are a real estate investor looking to learn more about how to begin? With prices and interest rates low, as well as the large number of bank owned and short sale properties for sale here in the Twin Cities, real estate investors are realizing this market is one of opportunity.

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28 Mar 2012
Posted by Admin

This type of insurance is very much essential to all house owners who have to repay their loans. Of course, the very idea might make one think twice about going in for another expense apart from the property expense, but when you consider the benefits in the long run, this would be a more feasible and life saving plan for emergency situations.

Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance, as it is popularly known, is a form of back up for repaying your loans when you are not able to generate income on a regular basis due to some unforeseen circumstances like illness or retrenchments etc. Read more…

18 Mar 2012
Posted by Joseph Lowrie

Despite its recent launch, user-driven social bookmarking site fwisp has been steadily growing and quietly becoming the web’s prime business, finance & investing blog aggregator.

As a bright contrast to the many, fwisp is much more than a pool of automatically submitted & RSS-fed articles. Just like Digg, all of the submissions on fwisp are done manually; the website is heavily moderated and only quality content makes it to the first page. V

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15 Mar 2012
Posted by Joseph Lowrie

Following a string of security breaches on three major organizations–Lockheed Martin Inc, Google Inc. and Sony Corp (twice in their case)–Citigroup was next in line as hackers compromised the security of over 200,000 credit card accounts. Along with this comes news that leading economic experts predict a 15% chance the U.S. economy could fall into another recession. An upside amid all the recent bad news is that we’ve experienced a drop in oil prices, which has translated to slightly cheaper gas.

Most banks will let online banking customers access their accounts from anywhere with just their username and password, but after Citi credit card customer information was hacked earlier this week, security might get tighter. About

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2 Mar 2012
Posted by Joseph Lowrie

If you’re a CPA or tax preparer, the months from January to April are undoubtedly the longest of the year.  Twelve hour days, impatient clients, and crazy workloads can really take their toll. With that in mind, whether it’s your first tax season or your twenty-first, here are a few strategies that can help you survive the demands on your time and talents:

  1. Have a plan, but be flexible – You can take some of the stress off your plate by making a plan for each workday. Set achievable goals for yourself for what you’d like to accomplish during the course of the day and then work on the most important items first. Be sure

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