January 2012

TurboTax 2012 Review and Giveaway

In this TurboTax 2012 review, I will discuss what TurboTax has to offer and the features of different versions : Free, Deluxe, Premier and Home & Business. TurboTax doesn’t need any introduction. It is the best selling tax software program, comes in both offline (CD or download) and online versions. I have used it regularly for [...]

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Tax planning for 2012 : What changed, what stayed the same and what you should be aware of?

This post mostly deals with 2012 tax deductions, changes and exemptions for planning purposes, which means most of the changes described here will be effective for the 2012 tax year, for which you will file the return on April 15, 2013. The 2011 tax guide (a complete 2011 tax guide in pdf) will be released [...]

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Only stupid people give to charity

“Only stupid people give to charity, I give enough with my taxes” – one of my coworkers said,  during lunch one day, when we were discussing the holiday fundraising in our office. I just smiled and said nothing, but it certainly made me think. By nature, we humans are motivated by personal and material payoffs. [...]

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Stay at home or to work : What is the financial & professional price?

Some of our friends are pregnant or have just had a baby. So the conversation of staying at home or going back to work after maternity leave comes up fairly often. When I expressed my interest to stay at home for a couple of years after we start our own family to one of the [...]

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Knowledge is power and its free too!

A compilation of best free online courses, classes, lectures, podcasts and more Knowledge is power, but we need not spend much to get knowledge. There are lot of universities and websites that make their courses/lectures available for everyone to use for free. These top ranked universities and websites bring together amazing professors, thought provoking topics, tons [...]

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What do a fly in the urinal, chocolate elephants and photocopiers have in common? Goals! – Part 2

Every year starts full of hope about lofty dreams and plans for the future. By February, only ~60% of us have the same enthusiasm, by mid year more than half of us will give up. According to a survey done by the Operations Research Corporations, 24% (one in four people) NEVER succeed and have failed [...]

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What do a fly in the urinal, chocolate elephants and photocopiers have in common? Goals! – Part 1

Another article about goals??? Oh no, not again! That is probably how readers who read multiple blogs feel There must be about 1985 blog posts about goals (ok. I totally made that number up, but it feels that way). Everywhere you go in the blogosphere, people are talking about getting SMART. But bear with me, [...]

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Wealth Informatics : Looking ahead with an eye on rear view mirror

A very happy New Year to everyone! Before anything else, I would like to thank you all for reading Wealth Informatics. Without you I wouldn’t have got past the first month. Thank you for reading, commenting, sharing! Thank you for being there for me! By now, everyone is probably energized and ready to take on [...]

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