Friday, September 24, 2010

U.S. Economic Indicators (Unemployment rate and Capacity Utilization %)

August 2010

The US Dept. of Treasury release yesterday their Monthly economic data yesterday; here are two...

The unemployment rate is 9.6% and the capacity utilization rate is 74.7% for the month of August. Not much change from last month.

In periods of economic prosperity the capacity utilization rate (i.e., the rate at which production capacity is operating) range in the 80%+.

Source: US Dept of Treasury

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Injury Spouse Claims

I was asked about this topic, so let me talk about it in general.

What is the general definition "injured Spouse"?
this is where you submit a claim to the IRS for wrongfully appling your refund to satisfy a liability (ex., federal taxes, loans, child support, etc.)arising from a marriage relationship.

Some of the issues you may encounter are:

-Income and Taxes reported...
-Commnunity property laws (ex., people who live in TX, AZ, CA, ID, LA,NM, WI, WA, and NV.) requires special treatment...
-Are you personally liable?

After you determine that you qualify and a valid claim was calculated you need to file the proper form to the IRS (F-8379)to get relief.


Source: IRS.gov

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