Wise Finish

So, you live in the United States and you have filed your federal, state and possibly even municipal income tax.  When will you get your federal tax refund?

A variety of things can effect when you receive your refund including:

• E-file (faster) vs. Mail (slower)
• Direct Deposit of refund (faster) vs. Paper Check (slower)
• Regular Tax Return 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ (faster) vs. Amended Tax Return 1040X (slower)

When will I get my refund?

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So, you live in the United States and you have filed your state income tax.  When will you get your state tax refund?

A variety of things can effect when you receive your refund including:

• E-file (faster) vs. Mail (slower)
• Direct Deposit of refund (faster) vs. Paper Check (slower)
• Regular Tax Return (faster) vs. Amended/Business Tax Return (slower)

State Taxes

Below are links for several states that offer online or telephone status on the status of your income tax refund check: Read the rest of this entry »

I have used eBay for years to save a great deal of money on products.  I continue to do so because for many products, especially computer/cell phone parts and accessories, eBay often saves me a great deal of money.

I recently discovered a way to save even more money when shopping on eBay.  No coupon codes are required, and you can get anywhere from 3% – 41% cash back on products you purchase on eBay.

How does this work?  What you do is “stack” rebates to get substantial cash back from every eBay purchase you make.

Here’s where the rebates come from: Read the rest of this entry »

The Super Bowl is finished, the W-2’s and 1099’s have come in the mail.  Time to file my federal taxes for 2009.  Since my experience using Turbo Tax for the last several years has been a good one, I again chose it for 2009.  This year I chose TurboTax Deluxe Federal + State 2009 + efile to prepare my federal & state taxes.

Here’s my experiences and observations this year, broken down by the Federal and State returns (thankfully I did not have to file any city returns this year) Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been looking for a used car recently.  I have discovered that there are dozens, if not hundreds of sites with used car listings on.  However, very few of them I encountered had something that I really desired: An RSS feed so that I could receive updates in Google Reader.  If you haven’t discovered the beauty of RSS yet, I highly encourage you to start by signing up for Google Reader and experiment with these or many other sites that have RSS feeds.

Here are the sites I discovered that have RSS feeds and a little note about each.  Hopefully you will find this useful as you look for a new or used car: Read the rest of this entry »