By stacychudwin
Father’s Day is coming up on June 21—mark your calendars! For some of you, however, your fathers may not even have the time to celebrate this special day. With the current state of the economy, many men (and women) have been working extra long hours at their respective jobs in order to make ends meet
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By stacychudwin
1) The Key to Success is to be Organized One time I handed in a crumpled pile of homework to my third grade teacher, who then forced me to write “the key to success is to be organized” over and over again on the blackboard. Though I hated it at the time, the phrase
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By IRS Newswire
Businesses planning to claim the newly-expanded work opportunity tax credit (WOTC) for eligible unemployed veterans and unskilled younger workers hired during the first part of 2009 have until Aug. 17 to request the certification required for these workers, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Newly-revised Form 8850, now available on IRS.gov, is used by employers
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By IRS Newswire
Small Business Week was May 17 to 23, and the Internal Revenue Service urges small businesses to act now and take advantage of tax-saving opportunities included in the recovery law. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), enacted in February, created, extended or expanded a variety of business tax deductions and credits. Because some of
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By Dan Englander
Nexonia and Shoeboxed, two leading companies in online expense management, today announced a partnership to scan paper receipts and transform them into digital expense reports. Starting today, users that use Shoeboxed’s online receipt management service can integrate the receipt information to Nexonia’s Web-based service, where they can manage and analyze expenses and create professional expense
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By IRS Newswire
The Truth About Frivolous Tax Arguments (PDF 405K) addresses some of the more common false “legal” arguments made by individuals and groups who oppose compliance with the federal tax laws. These arguments are grouped under six general categories, with variations within each category. Each contention is briefly explained, followed by a discussion of the legal authority that rejects the contention. The second section deals with frivolous arguments encountered in collection due process cases. The final section illustrates penalties imposed on those pursuing frivolous cases. Tax Protestors
By Dan Englander
To reduce paper clutter and unnecessary postage costs, Shoeboxed is now allowing our customers to opt out of getting their receipts and business cards mailed back to them. By default, we return receipts and business cards for our Mail-In Classic and Business members. Since we provide scanned copies of the receipts and business cards, many members don’t need the originals back. If you don’t need them back, let us know on your Account & Settings page (Mail-In tab). We can shred and recycle them for you after processing. Shoeboxed Can Shred and Recycle Your Receipts and Business Cards If we can avoid unnecessary mailings, it keeps our costs low so that we can bring you a better Shoeboxed!
By Dan Englander
If you haven’t heard about Kentucky Fried Chicken’s new grilled chicken or its recent promotion (backed by Oprah) where you can get a free grilled chicken meal, well, you’ve been hiding in a cave. They’re running tons of TV ads and the Internet is abuzz with the promotion as well. KFC Grilled Chicken FAIL So
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By Dan Englander
Apparently, the recession hurts less at Walmart. A recent survey of American consumers had some interesting results: people are a lot less interested in shopping than they have been in decades and are turning to discount retailers like Walmart to ease their financial pain. Walmart is exceeding expectations in the recession “This is the first
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By Dan Englander
Shoeboxed recently announced a partnership with Jigsaw to help business professionals expand their network of business contacts by scanning and sharing business cards online. Shoeboxed gives people an easy way to get hard copy business cards scanned and uploaded to the web. Jigsaw then aggregates them, letting people trade what they have for fresh contacts from their crowd-sourced directory of 12 million business people and 2 million companies. Shoeboxed Partners With Jigsaw Now people can use Shoeboxed’s prepaid envelopes to mail in their business cards where they will be scanned and imported to Jigsaw, the world’s largest online business directory. Shoeboxed customers will automatically accrue Jigsaw points that can be redeemed at www.jigsaw.com for business contacts they want but don’t yet have. Shoeboxed’s by-mail scanning service starts at $9.95 per month, and is available at http://start.shoeboxed.com/Register. The basic Jigsaw service is free.
By Dan Englander
At Shoeboxed, we offer a scanning service for receipts and business cards and online software to organize the information that we digitize. Though the scanning portion of what we do is clearly a service, it’s important to remember that the software is itself a service as well. We don’t give you the software and set
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By IRS Newswire
The Internal Revenue Service today reminded individual and business taxpayers that many energy-saving steps taken this year may result in bigger tax savings next year. The recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) of 2009 contained a number of either new or expanded tax benefits on expenditures to reduce energy use or create new energy
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By Dan Englander
It’s about time for Shoeboxed to buy another large batch of envelopes for our receipt and business card Mail-In program. We have had lots of people over the last couple of years give us feedback about our envelopes, and we wanted to take this opportunity to solicit your thoughts about our envelope design. That’s why
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By Dan Englander
Taxpayers who need to make a change or adjustment on a return they already filed can do so by filing an amended return. Here are the top 10 things every taxpayer should know about amending your federal tax return.
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By Dan Englander
Most taxpayers have already filed their federal tax returns but may still have questions. Here’s what you need to know about refund status, recordkeeping, mistakes and what to do if you move. Refund Information You can go online to check the status of your 2008 refund 72 hours after IRS acknowledges receipt of your e-filed
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