IRS Phone App Released
The IRS has just released a new app in time for the tax season. The app will allow users to check refunds and review new information.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has entered the mobile age with Android and iPhone applications that allow taxpayers to check refunds and get new information.
Released on Monday, the IRS2Go application can be found and downloaded for free on the Apple App Store or Android Marketplace.
“This new smart phone app reflects our commitment to modernizing the agency and engaging taxpayers where they want when they want it,” stated IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman in a press release. “As technology evolves and younger taxpayers get their information in new ways, we will keep innovating to make it easy for all taxpayers to access helpful information.”
The IRS joined the social media revolution in 2009 with a YouTube page, began using Twitter last year, and they even put out a tax tips podcast.
The new mobile app, which is one of only a handful put out by the federal government, promises to a safe and secure way to help… continue reading
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Americans Want Rich to Pay to Fix Deficit
Many Americans are upset over the deficit, and feel that the rich should pay to fix the deficit. Meanwhile, people want Congress to keep its hands off of Social Security benefits and Medicare.
According to the Dec. 4-7 poll, taken days after Obama’s commission sounded an alarm over the nation’s “unsustainable fiscal path,” the public still believes it’s more important to “minimize sacrifice” than to take “bold and fast” action to pare the $13.7 trillion national debt.
“The reality is deficit-cutting hurts, and the American public is in no mood for further hurt than the slow economy and high unemployment is delivering,” said J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., a Des Moines, Iowa firm that conducted the nationwide survey.
The one place Americans are willing to see sacrifice is in the wallets of the wealthy.
While they say they strongly support balancing the budget over the next 20 years, when offered a list of more than a dozen possible spending cuts or tax increases, majorities opposed all of them except… continue reading
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