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The accountant’s guide to state taxes on retirement income

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States with no income tax. Eight states do not impose a personal income tax, meaning retirement income from any source remains untaxed. These states include Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming. States with no tax on TSPs. However, property taxes can be high in some areas.

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IRS Direct File Launches for Low-Income Taxpayers in 12 States

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It’s back to regular IRS deadlines this year, but with a new tool for many low- and moderate-income households: a service that will prepare and file their tax returns online for free. That sort of virtual hand-holding is similar to what you’d get by using commercial tax preparation software.

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IRS Direct File is Now Officially Open for Use in 12 States

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“Expanding Direct File as the tax deadline approaches will provide more taxpayers a way to file directly with the IRS for free, and it will give us more valuable information to assess this pilot.” As expected, Direct File has been met with resistance from tax-prep software providers like H&R Block and Intuit , which makes TurboTax.

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IRS to Try Out Its Free E-Filing Tax Return Program in 13 States Next Year

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According to the IRS, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and New York have decided to work with the agency to integrate their state taxes into the Direct File pilot program for the 2024 filing season. In addition, the state of Washington agreed to join the integration effort for its application of the Working Families Tax Credit.

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Friday Footnotes: Why People Leave Public Accounting; Audit Workloads Up; Terrorist Clients (Literally) | 12.2.22

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Las Vegas Tax Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Multiple Fraud Schemes [ Department of Justice ]. This one is a doozy: A Nevada man was sentenced Nov. 30 to 13 years and three months in prison for filing false tax returns, aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, money laundering and impersonating an FBI agent.

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The 10 Best Property Taxes By States in 2021: Move Here to Save Money!

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But on the other hand, if a lot of the people there are in poverty, they may not be able to afford those taxes. Because Nevada is extremely popular for tourism, it can afford to offer its residents very low property taxes. Nevada’s effective property tax rate is just 0.6% So how is this even possible?

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The 10 States With the Lowest Property Taxes in 2021

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But on the other hand, if a lot of the people there are in poverty, they may not be able to afford those taxes. Because Nevada is extremely popular for tourism, it can afford to offer its residents very low property taxes. Nevada’s effective property tax rate is just 0.6% So how is this even possible?