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Need Tax Forms? Here Are Five Ways To Obtain Your IRS Tax Forms

Where Can I Find My Tax Forms? By now you should have received all of your important tax reporting forms –  your W-2, your 1099s, interest reporting forms and the like.  The time for actually filing taxes is here, and if you’re filing your taxes by hand (I don’t do this anymore), the IRS has […]

How Much To Save For Retirement

I recently received an email from my company’s 401k plan manager asking me the question: “have you got enough cushion?”  In other words, they were asking, based on the amount of money I’m contributing to retirement today, if it will be enough?  Further into the note, their suggestion was to save as much as I […]

Would You Pass the ‘Rich Young Ruler’ Test?

This is an article from Lakita at Personal Finance Journey. You can read more of her great writing at her site, or by subscribing to her RSS feed. The Bible records an encounter Jesus had with a man identified only as a “Rich Young Ruler”. This man realized that in spite of all he had…he […]

Top 10 Tax Credits To Take Advantage Of

This is an article from PT over at PTMoney.com. Head on over to his site and to get his 52 Ways To Make Extra Money e-book. It’s that time of year again. Time to file your taxes. Whether you do it yourself, or you hand things over to a CPA, it’s good to be familiar […]

How to Go On A Financial Diet

This article was written by Go Banking Rates, bringing you the best interest rates on financial services nationwide, as well as informative content and helpful tools. Spending has a lot in common with eating: both are about consumption, both require money, and too much of either can lead to serious problems. While the problems manifest […]

6 Advantages Of Automatic Saving And Investing

What The Government Can Teach You About Personal Finances When it comes to the government and money there are a lot of diverse opinions. No matter what you think about the government’s fiscal responsibility, one thing is for certain. Many Americans could learn at least one lesson from the government that will transform their personal […]

Questions About The New Car Sales Tax Deduction Answered

I have been getting a lot of questions lately about the new car sales tax deduction that people can claim for cars bought in 2009.   A lot of people are getting ready to do their taxes, and they’re wondering if they qualify for the tax deduction. In the interest of answering some of the most […]

Non Financial Considerations Of Selling Your Home: Should You Sell Your House?

As a reminder, this is the second post of a two post series helping you answer the question:  Should you sell your house? The first post looked at the financial considerations of selling your house.   I discussed costs in selling and buying, interest rates, whether or not selling will help you get out of […]

Deciding How Much to Allocate In Your Budget

Bryce Bartruff, senior director and COO of American Missionary Fellowship, leads a personal finance workshop called “Fiscal Fitness.” For more information about attending or hosting a workshop in your area, give him a call at 610-527-4439, ext. 104 or email him through the contact form. “Do you know how to make God laugh?” my nephew, […]

Tips On How To Obey “Thou Shalt Not Covet”

A few weeks ago, my Pastor from church was preaching about “Thou shalt not covet” – one of the Ten Commandments. He said that it was not one of the most talked about commandments but was nevertheless very important and so easy to break. He gave the following analogy. He said that if he was […]