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Question: UK tax- is a meal tax deductible?

If I hold a meeting in a restaurant with a client and pay for lunch, can it be tax deductable. Lunch is the only time we can meet and we both need to work through lunch and eat too. What’s the rule here? What about a meeting in the office where we need to work through and get food in – Can this be put down as an expense – Hardly seems like ‘entertainment’!

Answer: Sorry, but any sort of hospitality is counted as entertainment for tax purposes and is not deductible when calculating the taxable profits of a business.

The reason is fairly simple . You do not eat in order to make a profit. The purpose of eating is to keep yourself alive. Paying for the clients meal is in a sense paying to acquire business, but it is specifically exclude as a tax deductible expense by s577 ICTA 1988. This came in during the 1960′s when business entertaining was becoming increasingly lavish. It was difficult to set a limit, so all entertaining was disallowed.

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Business entertainment deductions can be complex

Taking a customer to lunch, dinner or the theater is part of doing business. And often, a lot of fun. But company owners may find that claiming such entertainment expenses as income Tax Deductions is complicated, and maybe…

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Mother’s milk stirs unlikely political debate

First lady Michelle Obama found herself at the center of an unlikely breast-feeding debate this week when three prominent conservative women criticized her for encouraging the creation of a “nanny state.”

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Question: I need help with 2008 taxes?!?

I am trying to see if we will break even this year or if we are going to get a refund for our 2008 taxes. Our total gross wages so far this year together (married) is $73,200. Our federal taxes this year so far is $7912. How can I calculate if we get a refund. No contributions to IRA or anything like that and we would just use a standard deduction. Only contributed $500 towards and Flexible Spending Account. Are we going to have to pay?
Do you have to subtracted the standard deduction (i think it’s 10,900) from our gross and that is our amount for our tax bracket?! Help please!

Answer: 73200
- $500 fsa
- 10,900
- 7000 (for 2 exemptions)
= 54800.

See IRS pub 1040ES for the tax table. Some of your income is taxed at 10%, most of it at 15%. I think you are probably looking at a $500 refund.

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Phillips: Sales tax break doesn’t apply to all car buyers

Q: I understand we can deduct sales tax on any vehicle purchased in 2009 up to $40K. Before I begin figuring taxes, are Tennesseans able to also deduct this extra tax since we already can deduct “regular” sales tax? If not, can the auto sales tax be included elsewhere on our return? Finally, does this amount come off the adjusted income or the percentage tax rate under which we fall?

Tax Law Changes Affecting 2008 Tax Returns

This is the Best Housing Economy in History…for Tax Lien Investors!

There has never been a better time in history for tax lien investing, ask anybody that’s doing it!

This economy has made getting a house from your Tax lien investment much easier, folks just aren’t paying their taxes and the banks are SO heavy in foreclosure inventory that it financially behooves them to write off the note and let the property go!

During a good economy, you can expect to get about a 90% redemption rate from the home owner. This means 9 out of 10 people pay their taxes before you, the tax lien holder, gains ownership of the house.
In this instance you get your investment back plus interest back, pretty wonderful worst case scenario, right?

Now fast forward to 2008!

The housing crunch has dropped the redemption rate in many markets to as low as 50%.

This is any amazing turn for Tax Lien investors, we now have a VERY good chance of getting half of the houses we get Tax Liens for.

WOW!!!

Back before the current housing crash, I would shop for the highest interest rate assuming that I would only get one to three houses for every ten liens I bought.

Huge governmentally secured interest rates and a few house seemed like the smartest thing I could do with my money…it grew fast!

But now…oh my gosh…houses are coming to me left and right!

Not only am I still getting my huge interest rates, but now a ton of my liens are “magically” becoming houses.

Just one quick example, I  bought 6 Tax Liens in the last auction in Indiana (I love Indiana because they have a 4 month…YES 4 MONTH redemption period)it’s looking good for me to get at least half of them.

That means 50% of my Tax Liens will become houses that I own free and clear for less than $2000 each.

No matter how bad the market is I bet I can find a buyer for a house that I can make a profit on by selling it for $1 more than $2000!

Best of all, if my buyer gives me a $2000 down payment on a house that I bought for $2000, I’m in a pure profit situation!!!

Your Best Bet-Rent to Own

Creative financing is never more welcome than at a time when the banks aren’t loaning money.

I bet there are millions of people in America right now that would kill to rent to own a house with me holding the note. No bank involvement!

This scenario is one of the great reasons for tax lien investing, rent to own your way to wealth!  If the Tenant pays off the note, good for them, they get a house for a fantastic deal.

If they don’t pay their note down month in and month out, you convict them and get your house right back on the market. Again, as long as you got enough down payment from the tenant to cover your investment in the house-you are in a total profit situation.

This is the secret to making great money from the homes your get from your tax lien investments, especially in a “down” economy.
There are times in economic history when loans are much harder to get than other times; smarts investor take advantage of these times and can help people out of their troubles as a moral benefit.

So there you go…a very long winded way of saying your crazy not to visit http://secure606.1clicksite.hop.clickbank.net and get to work investing today!

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Nearly half of U.S. households pay no federal income tax

By Stephen Ohlemacher The Associated Press Tax Day is a dreaded deadline for millions, but for nearly half of U.S. households it’s simply somebody else’s problem.

LEEJAY & STEVIE at PILIPINO TIME 2008