One big goal on Financial Samurai is to highlight to readers what is financially possible. Once you know what is possible, you minimize your limiting beliefs and tend to strive much farther. You can actually save more than $100,000 in your pre-tax retirement accounts per year! Let me explain with some basics first. The 401k […]
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I firmly believe tax policy changes behavior. The higher your taxes go, the BETTER your life becomes! Why? Because at the margin, the less money you keep, the less motivated you’ll be to work. Since the love of money is the root of all evil, the less time you spend chasing money, the happier you will be. One of
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Recently, I discovered that finding work is expensive. Fortunately there are tax-deductible job hunting expenses that make it less painful. Thanks to 33% of you voting that I should go back to work full-time, I decided to rev up the rusty job search engine after 3.5 years of inactivity. And boy, what a waste of time
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Here are the key points from the now passed Trump administration’s tax plan for 2018 and beyond. This is the Republican tax plan. After reviewing the key points, I share my thoughts on how to win under this possibly new tax environment. The audio version is at the end of the post. Republican Tax Plan Highlights *
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On Wednesday, April 26, 2017, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn announced President Trump’s latest tax plan that proposes to cut corporate taxes and lower personal tax rates. For anybody who has ever made money, you know that paying tax on your income is one of your largest ongoing lifetime expenses. A progressive tax system
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In 2023, the average tax refund was $3,167, or almost 3% less than the prior year, according to IRS statistics. By comparison, the typical refund check jumped 15.5% to almost $3,300 in 2022, when taxpayers received generous tax credits like the expanded Child Tax Credit. The average tax refund in 2024 will likely be even higher. With the
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One of the most disappointing things about the government is their institution of the marriage penalty tax. The government is smart to laud the act of marriage in order to collect more taxes. When you’re in love, what’s an extra $1,000 or $10,000 a year in taxes you’ve got to pay? Love is blind and
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Everybody needs a good savings guide to stay on track. Too many people don’t follow a savings guide and wake up 20 years from now wondering where all their money went! Good thing for you, I’ve been saving aggressively since 1999 and have a solution for you. When it comes to increasing your savings, you
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Ignorance is bliss. But, goofing up on your taxes can be costly. Let’s go through the main reasons to do and not to do your own taxes. When you don’t know your boss is getting a huge bonus for saving the firm money by screwing your bonus, you’re happy. When you don’t know the reason
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Trump’s middle class tax hike affected millions of Americans. This article was written to help prepare for Trump’s middle class tax hike. Now that Trump is no longer President doesn’t mean his middle class tax hike isn’t here. The Tax Cut And Jobs Act Lasts until 2025. With Joe Biden as President, taxes shouldn’t go
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