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Useful Sites & Stuff

IRS Tax Tip: 1040, 1040-A or 1040-EZ? March 19, 2008

Filed under: All, Consumer Information, Investment & Personal Finance — Sarah @ 4:15 pm

Submitted by Doris Dixon (Raleigh):

www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=105099,00.html

“The three forms used for filing individual federal income tax returns are Form 1040EZ, Form 1040A and Form 1040. If you are filing a federal income tax return on paper, use the simplest form you can. Using the simplest allowable form will reduce the chance of an error that may cost you money or delay the processing of your return.”

 

Guide to Law Online March 19, 2008

Filed under: All, Government, Legal Information — Philip @ 4:11 pm

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide.html

From the website:  “The Guide to Law Online, prepared by the Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information.”

 

Human Development Reports March 19, 2008

Filed under: All, Countries of the World, Statistics — Philip @ 1:15 pm

http://hdr.undp.org/en/

The United Nations Development Programme provides reports on countries from around the world here that provide detailed statistics  for areas such as GDP per capita, life expectancy, literacy, standard of living, and education that measure the well being of citizens in their countries.  A wealth of statistics for many countries and many different ways to search for the statistics.

 

Postage Price Calculator March 19, 2008

Filed under: All, Government — Philip @ 8:50 am

http://postcalc.usps.gov/

The United States Postal Service provides this calculator to let the user easily calculate domestic and international postage rates.