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very loud clunk or thunk over small bumps, and heavy rattling in same area on rough roads? started after my tall husband borrowed the car, sounds horrible? only on rear driver side

These are startup expenses and cannot be deducted until you actually open for business. There is a limit to how much you can deduct at once, the rest would be amortized. Please do yourself a favor and hire someone to do your taxes next year so that you get off on the right foot.

Unless you actually *more* into your vacation home, this is fraud. You cannot nominally claim to be a resident of a non-tax state to avoid income tax; you cannot nominally claim to be a resident of a 2nd home to get the $250K house exclusion. Both the states and the IRS have a facts and...

Here's the problem. You can only put $5000 a year into the Roth. If you have $10,000 to put aside, you can't put more than $5000 in. Then if you use it in 10 years for your daughter's education, you can pretty much wipe out those contributions with one year's of expenses. (Once you dip into...

Here's the problem. You can only put $5000 a year into the Roth. If you have $10,000 to put aside, you can't put more than $5000 in. Then if you use it in 10 years for your daughter's education, you can pretty much wipe out those contributions with one year's of expenses. (Once you dip into...

Generally, unemployment is based on the the first 4 quarters of the last 5 quarters. So if you are applying for benefits in the 3rd quarter of 2009, the unemployment office is going to look at the income you had from July 2008 to June 2009. If you separated before then, there's no income to...

The bank is insolvent.

No. Your body type is working against you - no amount of starvation/exercise is going to change your genetic make up to be predisposed to cellulite. it happens. do yourself a favor and stop worrying about it. if ppl are calling you thin, then it is all in your mind. Don't wear clothes that...

You can't exterminate just one unit--they bugs would just flee to the next one. First, visit and get sample bugs and verify that it is a bedbug with an exterminator. Then alert all tenants as to the problem and the fact that you have ALREADY scheduled treatments. This will gross out the other...

it is possible -center the picts so the 6 inch side in the wide way. stack 2 of the images so they are now 8 inches tall and voila you can print 2 at once. you can do it in PS - but I do stuff lie this is Quark or another design program for the most accurate registration

No. If you bring the money back to the US in the form of dividends or wages, it's taxable to you.

Of course it's a scam. The reason the BBB has never heard of them is that they don't exist. The reason the Ripoff Report hasn't got a report is that they will change their name anytime they want. There was no "manager"--it was another person involved in the scam. Fortunately, you didn't send...

You will continue to put the pre-llc business expenses on the schedule C.

The computer is supposed to be depreciated. Depreciation means you allocate the expense over a class life (often 5 to 7 years) and take a deduction each year for the portion used for business. Unlike unreimbursed employee expenses, there is no threshhold on the schedule C.

You would need actual milage, not an average. You can't report "averages" on a tax return. Besides, if you only work in one location per day, it's called commuting and you can't deduct it. If you work in two locations, the mileage between point A and point B is the business mileage. Getting...