Getty Images The tax deadline is approaching, and there are still a few ways to reduce your 2022 bill or boost your refund, experts say. Once the calendar year ends, “the toolbox of options is much smaller,” said certified financial planner John Loyd, owner at The Wealth Planner in Fort Worth, Texas. He is also
Andrew Bret Wallis | The Image Bank | Getty Images For retirees, health-care costs can be among the most unpredictable expenses they face over the course of their golden years. While many of them worry about affording their monthly Medicare premiums, their bigger concern is their out-of-pocket costs, recent research from eHealth shows. Fully 75%
Marcia S. Wagner, Esq., President/Founder of The Wagner Law Group in Boston, is one of the nation’s most notable ERISA attorneys. She founded The Wagner Law Group over 25 years ago after a decade of practicing employee benefits law. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University and is a graduate
The IRS has given New York winter storm and snowstorm victims until May 15, 2023, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. The relief applies to any area designated by FEMA as a result of storms that occurred between Dec. 23 and Dec. 28, 2022. This means that individuals
Enrollment at top private schools in South Florida is booming, as many out-of-state families have moved to South Florida in the years since the pandemic, seeking sunny weather, and escaping state income tax. For families in the region and those moving South, increasingly competitive enrollment trends can make choosing the right school particularly difficult and
In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ford’s BlueOval City electric vehicle and battery manufacturing campus in West Tennessee is scheduled to begin production in 2025. It will be home to Ford’s second-generation electric truck, code named Project T3, and will be capable of producing 500,000 EV trucks a year at full
In this article OUST Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Ouster Inc. (NYSE: OUST), today, Friday, March 12, 2021, in celebration of its Initial Listing. To honor the occasion, Ouster CEO Angus Pacala, joined by Chris Taylor, Vice President, NYSE Listings and Services, rings The Opening Bell®. NYSE Lidar
In this article BAC DB SQ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Deutsche Bank AG flag flies outside the company’s office on Wall Street in New York. Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Deutsche Bank — The German lender’s shares tumbled 13% following a
The owner of this over-the-top, seven-bedroom and 11-bath mansion in Los Angeles is prepared to accept $6 million less than what he paid for it less than two years ago — all to beat a ticking clock. The home features a Kobe Bryant-themed basketball court, car showroom and a 70-foot infinity pool that appears to
Medicare Advantage plans increasingly are using artificial intelligence and related tools to determine which care is approved for coverage. Algorithms and artificial intelligence determine care in many plans and are driving denials of coverage to new highs, according to a study by STAT. The case for using AI is that the tools can process more
As we enter tax season 2023, you may wonder how long you should keep your old tax returns and other paperwork associated with filing your taxes. For those with hard copies of your taxes, you might wonder if you can scan them. Or do you need to keep hard copies? Keep reading as we share
The lack of affordable housing options around the world is driving more interest in innovative concepts that can rethink design and process in ways that will drive down costs. A recent panel discussion at the 2023 SXSW conference in Austin brought together three of those innovators to share insights on lowering costs with new, smart
In this article WMT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart is laying off hundreds of employees at e-commerce facilities across the country, as the big-box giant and other retailers brace for a tougher year ahead. Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, is shrinking its workforce as many retailers
In this article BNB.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Binance is the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, handling $490 billion of spot trading volumes in March 2022. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Binance is the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume and assets, processing $9.5 trillion worth of trades in 2021 alone. But
As a young, avid collector of luxury watches, Austen Chu said he was scammed “many times” when he bought timepieces from the secondary watch market. “Once, I bought a watch which had a dented dial and the seller told me that the dial got dented during shipping,” Chu recalled. And he believed it. But now,
When it comes to the U.S. economy, confidence is key. But the banking crisis has threatened to upset how most people feel about their financial picture. “The bank problems are probably making a lot of people think twice,” said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, an economics professor at George Washington University and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of
Over the years there has been the debate on whether privatizing Social Security is a good idea. Back in 2005, former President George W. Bush was presenting the idea of partially privatizing Social Security on the basis that people could earn a better investment return in the market thereby solidifying their retirement portfolio. This change
What’s on your desk right now? If you’re a tax professional, chances you have a monitor or two (or three) alongside a computer and, for the old-school among us, a well-worn, dog-eared tax reference book. Depending on the time of day, there may also be a cup of coffee, an energy drink, and maybe a
While rent control appears to help housing providers in the short run, in the long run it affects their investment and development plans, according to new research by the National Apartment Association (NAA). Potential actions include reducing investments, shifting plans to other markets and canceling plans altogether. Furthermore, a full two-thirds of housing providers would
In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT John Lawler, Chief Financial Officer of Ford, rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), March 23, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Ford Motor disclosed on Thursday that its electric vehicle unit, called Ford Model e, lost $2.1 billion in 2022 —