New Task For The Phone — Filing Taxes
DENVER (CBS4) – It’s a new task for your phone — filing taxes. If you can shop on your phone and bank on your phone, taxes are just the next natural step as long as your financial life is simple. But...
View ArticleFree Tax Help Available
DENVER (CBS4)- Free tax help is available to those who are overwhelmed by the IRS paperwork and short on cash. The clinics sponsored by AARP are offered to everyone, regardless of age. Click here for a...
View ArticleTax Time Mixup: Dept. of Revenue Sends Returns To Wrong Person
DENVER (CBS4) – The Colorado Department of Revenue sent an Ouray woman’s 2010 tax returns to the home of a Denver man who says he is stunned by the mixup. “Well coming from the state I think they...
View ArticleBrooke’s Bargains: Tax Time Tweaks Help You Save
DENVER (CBS4) – Hitting the tax withholding “sweet spot’ takes some finesse. None of us want to give the government an interest-free loan, nor do we want to owe taxes. If we’re able to adjust our...
View ArticleMost Americans Plan To Save Their Tax Return Money
DENVER (CBS4) - Tuesday is the day Americans paid off their taxes for the year. According to the Tax Foundation Tuesday is Tax Freedom Day. The foundation says the average American has to work 102 days...
View ArticleTax Day Freebies
DENVER (CBS4)- Looking for a little relief on Tax Day? Even though it’s April 18 this year, thanks to a holiday in our nation’s capitol, those few extra days may not give you any breathing room. CBS4′s...
View ArticleTax Procrastinators Get Lucky Break This Year
DENVER (CBS4) – Procrastinators caught a lucky break this year — the deadline to file taxes was pushed back a few days for a holiday in Washington, D.C. The deadline is Monday at midnight, but for...
View ArticleMoney Saver: Bartering & Taxes
DENVER (CBS4) – CBS4 recently aired a story on bartering; people who trade services in order to save money. Perhaps a car mechanic will do repair work in exchange for dental work from a dentist....
View ArticleSex Assault Victim’s Call Unanswered After Center Shuts Down
FORT COLLINS, Colo.. (CBS4) – A victim’s call for help was unanswered after a call center in Fort Collins abruptly was shut down. One of the answering service’s clients was a sex assault hotline. State...
View ArticleWoman Sentenced To Home Detention For Denver Prostitution Ring
DENVER (CBS4) – A federal judge has sentenced Brenda Stewart, the former owner of a high-end prostitution business, to 12 months of home detention, another 12 months of supervised release, and ordered...
View ArticleWoman’s Attorneys Have Explanation For Missing Calendar Money
DENVER (CBS4) – Calendars featuring firefighters are supposed to raise money for children who are burn victims, but a CBS4 investigation questioned where the money really went. On Wednesday attorneys...
View Article‘Fired Up For Kids’ Founder’s Expenses Investigated
DENVER (CBS4)- Calendars featuring firefighters are supposed to raise money for children who are burn victims, but a CBS4 investigation questioned where the money really went. Now the founder of the...
View ArticleSen. Bennet Urges Coloradans To Check On Their Tax Refund
DENVER (CBS4) – It’s almost the end of the year but there are still some people who are still waiting for their tax refund from the IRS. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is urging Coloradans to check the...
View Article5 Tax Deductions To Double Check
DENVER (CBS4) – The tax laws change so often it’s hard to keep up without the help of an expert. I am not an expert, but I’ve wondered about this topic so often, I did a little research. Turns out...
View ArticleTracking Your Tax Return Is Easy Online
CASTLE ROCK, Colo (CBS4) – In her home in Castle Rock, Janice Hagan was anxiously awaiting her tax refund check. “We do have a nice home, but we did need the money, and like a lot of people these days...
View ArticleTax Rackets – Common Scams Against Honest Taxpayers
(Photo Credit: Thinkstock) The Internal Revenue Service — charged with collecting taxes from American taxpayers — is more feared than hated. The power of the IRS is legendary, having been used to...
View ArticleTax Refund Theft Is Biggest Scam of Tax Season
DENVER (CBS4) Identity thieves are filing people’s taxes and stealing the refund money. The Internal Revenue Service calls it the biggest scam of the tax season because the reality is it’s not hard to...
View ArticleOpinion: Romney Has Disclosed Zero Complete Tax Returns
Zero. That is the number of full IRS returns W. Mitt Romney has disclosed. He claims that he disclosed his 2010 returns. Repeatedly. But it is not true. It turns out Romney either lied to the American...
View ArticleOpinion: Romney’s Gold Medal In Tax Deductions
If they gave medals for tax deductions, W. Mitt Romney would get the gold. He managed to pay a tax rate in the low teens – at least for the one year of returns he partially released – while dodging...
View ArticleOpinion: Harry Reid Gives Mitt Hell
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) shared something interesting in an interview with the Huffington Post yesterday: an investor in Bain told Reid that W. Mitt Romney had not paid any taxes over a ten year...
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