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...About the time incoming CIA director Leon Panetta sits down in his seventh-floor office to assume his new duties, he can count on the phone ringing off the hook - the Senate and House congressional intelligence committees will demand blood from anyone without a lily-white record. The pressure to join in a witch hunt is going to seem irresistible to Panetta...
...taking place: young evangelicals and Catholics don't see gay marriage as a life issue. They have gay friends and colleagues and they don't see homosexuality as the greatest threat to marriage and family. Now, they care about marriage and family - this generation is really challenging the hook-up sexuality of their peers. But most of them favor some sort of protection for gay people and many are supportive of the idea of civil unions...
...Moves like stretching the definition of 'necessary child care' are so silly because all it is going to save you is a few thousand bucks," says Howard Hook, a financial planner and CPA with Access Wealth Planning in Roseland, N.J. "But that doesn't stop people from trying...
Geithner's tax foibles probably won't derail his bid to replace Henry Paulson at Treasury. Republican and Democratic Senators, a number of whom have reiterated their support for Geithner in the past week, are likely to vote to confirm him as early as Thursday. Still, Hook and other tax experts say that if Geithner hopes to lower his April 15 bill in the future, he has some legitimate options - even if he lands the high-profile Treasury Secretary job. What follow are some filing tips for Geithner, as well as common tax traps he should avoid...
Claim Your House as a Home Office Geithner spent the past few years as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and made nearly $398,000 in 2007. Hook estimates that before deductions Geithner could owe as much as $130,000 in federal and state taxes for 2008, assuming his income last year was the same. On top of that, he will owe nearly $19,000 in property taxes on his 3½-bedroom home in Larchmont, N.Y. - an upscale suburb north of Manhattan - where he lives with his wife and two children...