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For a number of years, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been issuing refunds electronically, directly into citizens’ bank accounts.* Taxpayers like this method because it is fast and secure. Now, thanks to the growing popularity of the agency’s Free File service, more taxpayers are filing their returns electronically. As the name of the program suggests, the price is right.

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Here’s a safe generalization: only people anticipating a refund look forward to filing their income tax returns. For many of the rest of us, tax season frequently entails a tedious afternoon with calculator in hand, squinting at piles of receipts and 1099s and puzzling over tax regulations. If that weren’t enough, many caregivers have the extra responsibility of helping their loved one file their return.

If you have to double the time and trouble you take meeting Uncle Sam’s demands, you might as well make sure that you are doing it doubly right. Here are some tips to ensure that neither you nor your loved one pays more tax than you are obliged to by law:*

By Marc Freedman
Published by Public Affairs Book
Review by Stephen Winbaum
Communications Coordinator - RetirementHomes.com

Encore, by Marc Freedman, is a work in progress.  Following the Baby Boomer generation into its approaching retirement years, it posits a return to an earlier attraction with social justice as second careers. 

Baby Boomers are an experimental generation compared to the relatively no-nonsense parents who engendered them; parents who observed and lived through the Great Depression and the Second World War. This earlier generation grew to value the calm of the 50s and then to nurture the largest generation in American history.