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Did you know …
For as long as there have been accountants, there have been those who’ve ended up going to extremes!
The Canada Revenue Agency has a Voluntary Disclosures Program that allows you to correct past tax filing omissions. Learn more here.
IRS’ Case of the Missing Laptops(Wired Magazine)
The U.S. federal agency without a sense of humor, the one that demands receipts for every little deduction, is at a loss to explain why it doesn’t know where 2,300 of its computers are.
It’s probably best to have a trained professional do your e-filing for you?
IRS Rejecting 20% of E-Returns
Tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service through software services sold by H&R Block Kiplinger TaxCut and Intuit's Quicken TurboTax are being rejected by the IRS at rates of about 20% of returns submitted. IRS officials and industry executives disagree about the cause, and have found no specific problems with the processes involved. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-03-08-e-filing.htm
We’re so familiar with the standard set of symbols for arithmetic operations that appears on every calculator keyboard that we hardly ever stop to think who created them, or when. Click here to learn more from World Wide Words.
