A post over on Consumerist kicked off a firestorm of rebate debates. I fill out a lot of rebates (over the last couple months I’ve received 3 free computer cases and 2 free computer power supplies) and overall have had very little trouble with rebates. I tend to take my time filling out the forms [...]
Time is running out if you are planning to contribute to your Roth IRA for 2006. Contributions for the 2006 tax year need to be made by April 17th, 2007. Make sure that you leave some extra time if you’re establishing the account or even if you’re just contributing. You don’t want to be a [...]
A new tool, FAFSA4caster will soon be available (starting April 1st, 2007) to help you sort out how much financial aid you can expect to receive when attending college. From the site, this tool lets you do a couple things:
Instantly calculates a student’s eligibility for federation student aid, including grants
Reduces the time it will take to complete [...]
Now is a great time of year to head over to the IRS Withholding Calculator and make sure that you’re withholding the right amount of tax in 2007.
Your 2006 return will have told you if you were too high or too low. Optimally you set your deductions so that when tax time comes around next [...]
Looks like postage rates are going up to 41 cents in May. They’ll also be releasing forever stamps, which will always cover the first class rate. I’m guessing someone will find some crazy arbitrage opportunity using those…
Here’s a short list of the new rates that MSNBC put together:
The rates taking effect May 14 include:
Letters, bill payments, [...]