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Here’s How Your Tax Day Stacks Up

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Tax season, that is. Curious to know how your taxes stacked up? million tax returns last year, some 88 percent of which were filed electronically. trillion in adjusted gross income — meaning a total tax liability of $1.52 percent federal tax rate. This means that federal income tax paid in 2015 averaged to $14,654.

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The eCommerce Bachelor: Which City Will Get The Rose?

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only Arkansas, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, Wyoming and the Dakotas did not apply. Others are offering standard fare such as tax credits — although even that can’t be viewed as “standard” in this race. If Amazon were a teenager, it might say some of the 238 proposed sites are trying too hard.). In the U.S.

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The Election That Misplaced Small Businesses

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Trade has been a big topic of conversation on the campaign trail, as have debt, taxes, wages, immigration and monetary policy. 2) Can taxes be made comprehensible? There is the answer we thought we would get when we asked store front businesses about taxes — and then there is the answer we did get.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

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In the early 70s, See’s was able to produce about $2M a year (after tax) on just $8M in net tangible assets (including all accounts receivable.) Berkshire Hathaway bought See’s, and by 1982, it was up to producing $13M after taxes on just $20M in net tangible assets. That premium is the company’s “economic goodwill.”.

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Massachusetts: Frozen Growth In The Frozen North

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Dunbar noted that, apart from high fuel costs over the last few years, businesses have also faced building materials going up in price, tax increases and “no meaningful access to capital” — a refrain that became incredibly familiar the more places we traveled.