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...Blocks of the world. But you would be wrong. More than 60% of the 136 million people paying taxes this year will pay a real live person to do their returns, according to the IRS. Twenty years ago, before the proliferation of do-it-yourself tax prep software and Web services, that figure was actually lower, around...
...average taxpayer to want to wade into. Even the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which simplified the code by taking away many tax preferences, managed to add complexity by limiting certain deductions to people falling into particular income brackets. In 2001 and 2003, just about the time tax prep technology should have been cementing its hold on the mass market, substantial changes - including new rules about dividends and capital gains - kept people moving in the other direction. The Alternative Minimum Tax, a net originally created to catch the super-wealthy trying to shirk taxes, now ensnares some 4 million people...
...brother derived much of his own toughness as a three-sport star during his high school days at Lawrenceville. Though the fact that he had success in lacrosse comes as little surprise—he was a member of two New Jersey prep championship lacrosse teams—John Henry also captained both his football and wrestling teams during his senior year, placing second in the New Jersey prep state championships in the latter sport. One look at him at the faceoff-X makes it easy to see where he got his technique...
...test,” ETS spokesman Tom Ewing said. ETS undertook the effort to revamp the GRE in the wake of security concerns. Some test questions began showing up on Web sites in Asia about five years ago. Ben Baron, vice president of graduate programs at Kaplan Test Prep, said that the ETS decision was largely beneficial for students—who now don’t have to worry about preparing for a new, longer test—but that security remained a concern. “Their decision means they still have the security issue. We hope...
Okay, buzzing disco-funk-punk-electro-warehouse children, prep for white irony all topped off in sweated-out curls, because “Myth Takes,” the latest from !!!, has landed. “Myth Takes” aspires to present !!! in all its diverse dance-inducing glory, but if the album proves anything, it’s the difficulty of successfully appropriating multiple influences to make something that both works and makes bodies work. From their name alone, !!! aspire to be all unexpected fun—or cultural pirates. The symbol ! is used to denote a mouth...