Maximum Child Benefits – Why You Should Not Put A Price Tag On Your Children!

A common question we get at JFTS is “How much is each child worth?”. We receive this from either current or expecting parents. What an awful question! We know that parents do not mean “How much can I SELL my…

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Refund Anticipation Loans aka Legalized Loan Sharking

With tax season in full swing now we have been seeing plenty of ads claiming “don’t wait, get your refund now.” Sounds great doesn’t it? I mean your refund is YOUR money, you paid it to the government, you should…

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Buyer Beware! Watch Out For All The “Free” and “Guarantees” In Tax Ads

As a growing tax business we realize that creative marketing is essential to the growth of our business. This tax season with a fully fledged marketing effort we are noticing more and more the ads of our competitors and frankly…

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Your Deductions – What’s Missing?

After reading an article titled “10 Most Overlooked Tax Deductions” from Investopedia I felt it was my duty as a professional to make sense of this. Despite all the tax services and software claiming maximum refunds and the most comprehensive…

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Top 10 Tax Tips 2011 – All you need to be prepared!

Tax season 2011 is here and we are all awaiting those important documents in our mailbox any day now. Meanwhile, here are the Top 10 Tax Tips directly from the IRS to ensure a smooth and easy experience in getting…

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States With No Income Tax – What’s the Catch?

On our Services page you can see that we service “All States(where required)” and not “all 50 States” or even “all 50 States plus the District of Columbia and all US Territories”. This is because not all states have an…

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Tax Brackets – Knowing Your Rates for 2010 and Planning for 2011

With the 2010 filing season upon us there are a few strategies you can still employ to adjust your tax bracket. A tax bracket is a defined threshold of “taxable” income levels taxed at a certain percentage(i.e. 10%, the lowest…

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The Dreaded Audit – Tips From Tax Patriots On How To Avoid or Alleviate This Issue

This article is a response to a post on a business forum that posed the question- “Who here has been audited?”. Never a victim of an audit ourselves, we have seen way too many victims of poor tax services come…

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Taxes At Home – At Your Own Risk, Why You NEED A Tax Professional(video)

With tax time here, it is important to give you this information. In the time we live in it is great that you can buy a tax software for $79 that can do most simple returns, however, is it really…

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