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Barry G.
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Fowler EA brings you tax talk for you right here
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on W four CY Radio and Talkboard TV. As an
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enrolled agent and a national leader in tax resolution as
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well as Trucker bookkeeping.
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And tax planning. With over thirty years of experience.
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Barry will break down taxes, bookkeeping, tax planning, and tax.
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Relief for individuals and businesses just like you.
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So let's have some tax talk for you with your hosts.
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Barry G. Fowler, Hey, good morning. Closing out a year
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and bringing in a new year brings new tax deadlines
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things you need to be aware of as we enter
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the year. But amazing enough, I've heard a lot of
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talk recently about the national debt. And you know, the
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Congress passed another continuing resolution instead of passing a dog
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one budget like they're supposed to and required by law.
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So let's just continue to make this mess bigger and bigger.
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But I went to usdebt cloud dot org and kind
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of an amazing web page if you ever get over
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there and take a look at it. But just sitting
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here waiting for our show to start, I've watched the
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national debt go up by more than four million dollars,
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which is just crazy they can go up that fast.
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We're over thirty six trillion dollars in debt. If we
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want to break that down, p U a citizen, it's
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one hundred and seven thousand dollars worth each in debt,
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you know, per taxpayer two hundred and seventy one thousand.
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You know, those are crazy numbers. You mean, you think
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about it. Your kid gets out of college or gets
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out of high school and starts in the workforce and
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they become a taxpayer, they are immediately two hundred and
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seventy one thousand dollars in debt. Based on what our
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national debt is for our country, sometimes we're going to
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have to rain this in. You know, it's just amazing,
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just in this a little bit of the conversation. This
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has gone up two million dollars more. So, you know,
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it's insane numbers. When we when we think about it,
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sometimes you go, why do we even pay taxes? Let's
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just run everything on debt. You and I couldn't run
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our households this way. One of the cool things that
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I like about this is it's kind of this little
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time machine function. And you could go back to nineteen
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eighty and we were exactly you know, one trillion dollars
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in debt. It's only fourteen thousand per taxpayer, you know,
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so you know where did we you know, go wrong?
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You know, ten years later in nineteen ninety, we were
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only three point five trillion dollars in debt, but it
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jumped up to forty seven thousand dollars per taxpayer. And
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then you know, you jump into two thousand and we're
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five point five trillion and a fifty one thousand. So
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you could see how this debt increased, but it wasn't
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increasing like it is you know today. You know, we
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jumped to two thousand and four and went to eight
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point one trillion to seventy eight thousand per taxpayer, and
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then you know, we let's jumped to two thousand and
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eight and it went to twelve point five trillion, and
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we're now at one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars in debt,
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jumped to two thy and twelve and we're at seventeen
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point three trillion, and one hundred and sixty six thousand
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dollars in debt jumped to twenty twenty, and we had,
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let's go twenty sixteen first, and we were at seventeen trillion,
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and then twenty twenty it jumped to twenty nine trillion.
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You know, a lot of this is COVID and the
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benefits we paid people to not work or work from
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home or keep people employed caused this national debt to
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go way up. Things government shouldn't have been involved in,
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but they did. And then you know, we jumped in
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to you know where we're at today, and it's thirty
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six trillion dollars. So you can see in the last
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four years it jumped another seven trillion dollars out there,
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and it's you know, pretty interesting. You could see, you know, hey,
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what are the largest budget items that are out there
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for our government and medicare medicated one point eight trillion,
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social Security at one point five trillion. If they hadn't
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rated our trust, funded and done other investments or maybe
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guid it to where it's your own account, we wouldn't
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be sitting here looking at the government having to fund
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one point five trillion. Defense spending is just under you know,
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a trillion interest on debt is one over one trillion
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in itself. It's crazy. These are numbers that just become
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absolutely insane. They have a lot of other great stats
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out here here. You could go in here and look
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at your state. Let's take a state out here, Texas,
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and we look at texas population, you know, thirty one
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million people, and it's showing the debt being about four
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hundred and fourteen billion dollars. I think this is including
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a local debt and everything else as well, not just
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the whole state government. You know what other state you
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want to look at. You go in here and look
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at you know, California, who has thirty eight million people
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in it, and their debt is six hundred and nineteen
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billion dollars. So you know, the state debts, you know,
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all relatives. It's one of those things that are out there.
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Sure how they're calculating that state debt, but you can
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go in here and look at it and play it
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shows like the US population, number of people in the workforce,
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number of people that are officially unemployed. And you know
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what healthcare costs you know are now versus you know
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back in two thousand and what's your college tuition? You
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know what is it today versus what is it now?
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They have a nice thing on here too. It showed
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a student loan debt on here. And you know people
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are wanting forgiveness for student loans. When you signed for
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the loan, you should pay the loan. Hey, it's just life.
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That's the way life is. You will get out of school,
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go get a job, get work. A total student loan
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debt is almost one point eight trillion, thirty nine thousand
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dollars per student. Hey, some of the students. It's a
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lot more that are out there. Credit card debt for
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this nation is one point three trillion. It's about eight
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four hundred and forty per holder. So you know, there's
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numbers out here. It's it's pretty cool to look at,
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you know, even have things on here. Trade deficits a
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debt held by foreign countries of US debt. You know
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what's our trade deficit with you know, China, US imported oil.
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At one point we were exported oil. Now we're an
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import of oil. So, you know, it's kind of cool
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things that you get out there and you can you
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can look at they had US home prices here in
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sales dating back from two thousand and nine and all
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coming all the way forward to you know, twenty twenty
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or amazingly enough, home prices per this has come down
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for new homes from a high of five hundred and
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thirteen thousand to down to about four hundred and four thousand,
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So there's been some you know, decreases in the values
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that are that are out there. You know, they have
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home sales, they got mortgage loan calculators and everything out
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there showing you know, what kind of loans that you
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could get out there, fixed variable. So it's a it's
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a nice place to go there. Go check out usdebt
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clock dot org and have some fun with this, or hey,
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maybe put some realization into life and government and how
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much debt our government spends on years in my behalf,
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and how much they're actually collecting from tax payer and corporations. Hey,
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you know, interesting thing is is we talk about taxing corporations.
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Now you do realize when they tax the corporation that
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you and I are still paying for it. Unfortunately, that
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is across the board. Whether they're taxing a large, major corporation,
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they're taxing a mom and pop business. Those taxes are
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taxes you and I pay when we go to those shops.
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Whether you're shopping and let's say on Amazon or anything online.
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You know, they collect tax here and income and pay
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the tax to the federal government. So the more they
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get taxed, more the tax comes out of yours in
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my pocket. You know, that's kind of the sad thing
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in taxes, and people don't understand the way it works.
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If you're a major corporation, you're traded on the stock exchange,
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you've got to make money. You've got to have earnings,
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and you're going to be paying in taxes or have
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credits for research and development or purchasing new assets, whatever
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it is that helps bring their taxes down. You and
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I pay the tax and the goods that we buy,
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and those goods have got to be marked up enough
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to where they can earn enough income to satisfy shareholders
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or pay dividends out to show earnings to increase the
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value of the stock. And in order to do that,
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they've got to put that into their pricing. And when
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they put that into their pricing, you and I paid
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for it. So keep those things in mind when you're
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out there asking, hey, we should government should be charging
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more in taxes. So those are little things to keep
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in mind as you're going. What we're going to start
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covering is important tax deadlines for five and those coming
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up starting right away here in January. January becomes a
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busy month of tax deadlines, and we're going to catch
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you up on all the deadlines that are coming up
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right after this.
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We have only scratched the surface of today's show. Please
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stand by as Barry G. Fowler will be right back
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with tax talk for you. If you own the IRS
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Let's get back.
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To tax stock for you with more tax stock once again.
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Here's your host, BARRYG.
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Fower.
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Hey, welcome back. Hey, before we get started talking about
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tax deadlines. If you have to owe the IRS and money,
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we've come up with a great IRS playbook and if
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you go to IRS Playbook dot info. IRS Playbook dot info,
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you can learn how to settle your tax debt and
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three simple steps. So go to IRS Playbook dot info
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and check that out and see how you can solve
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your tax debt and three simple steps. Hey, we're talking
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about due dates. So you know every year we move
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into January and there's a lot of deadlines that come
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up in January. But a lot of tape people ask us, hey,
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when do I have to file my twenty twenty four
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tax return? Well, those deadlines are typically April fifteenth, you know,
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less it falls on a weekend or a holiday, or
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if you file the forty eight sixty eight seeking an
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extension to October fifteenth, So if you're filing your ten forty,
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you know, get it filed by April fifteenth and then
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or you can file an extension using the form forty
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eight sixty eight. One thing to remember, an extension is
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an extension of time to file, but not an extension
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of time to pay your taxes. So what do dates
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do we have coming up here? January fifteenth is your
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last quarterly estimated tax payment for twenty twenty four. So
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if you're self employed or have other income without any
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tax withholding and you make and you're required to make
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estimated tax payments, January fifteenth is the due date for
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your final quarterly estimated tax payment for twenty twenty four.
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And when you go in and you make this payment,
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if you go in through EFTPS site or pay it
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on IRS dot gov, make sure you check the box
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to say fourth quarter twenty twenty four or paying towards
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twenty twenty four January twenty ninth. This is approximate the
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kind of a release date the government has already set
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out that we can actually begin filing twenty twenty four
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tax returns and the IRS will start accepting and processing
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those returns. Sometimes it comes up a little bit earlier,
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but January twenty ninth is their goal to start accepting
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tax returns for twenty twenty four. So if you're early filer, great,
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get them in here on this date and the IRS
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will start processing refunds. If you owe, you can file
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early as well and set it to have it your
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money withdrawn from your account on April fifteenth, because it's
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still a deadline to pay even if you file early.
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January thirty first is kind of a huge day, especially
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in accounting, bookkeeping, payroll business. January thirty first is the
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due date for employers to send W two forms. You
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can send them earlier, but you've got to have them
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out to your employees by January thirty first, twenty twenty five.
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