Now here’s a curiosity:

http://www.onlinemarketingtoday.com/powerblog

The banner at the site screams

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As a webmaster, you can imagine how this made my adrenaline shoot beyond my cranium. So I did a bit of checking around. Turns out everyone has good things to say (several PR0 sites shot to PR3 in weeks) and not a soul threw a gripe.

Perhaps I’ll go fork over the $97 this guy’s asking and get my site up to PR7?

Your goal is to take advantage of everything that will allow you to reduce your tax liabilities. The first step is a thorough assessment of your income tax situation. Make sure you’re meeting your tax obligation through your withholding and your estimated tax payments, or a combination of both. Here are some of the most popular ways you can reduce your federal income taxes:

Sell at a loss: If you’re planning to sell a stock in which you have a huge capital gain, consider pairing the sale with a different security in which you have a loss. In that way, you can offset your gain with a loss and perhaps pay less, or nothing, in capital gains taxes. If you still want to hold the stock that’s down, consider selling for tax purposes and then repurchasing the stock thirty-one days after you sell. If you repurchase the stock before the thirty-first day, the IRS’s “wash sale” provision will disallow your loss. Continue Reading »
Effective Ways To Reduce Your Federal Income Taxes