KSEN Staff
5 Forbidden Tax Deductions
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One of the few joys of tax preparation is making deductions and watching your bill from Uncle Sam get lower and lower.
Here's a list of five expenses that might be tempting to deduct, but are strictly forbidden by the IRS.
Tales and Trails from FWP Region 4
Avian Vision
By Bruce Auchly
FWP Region 4 Information Officer
More signs of spring: meadowlarks singing on the prairie, robins chirping at dawn in town and pieces of crayfish, crawdads if you must, along the Missouri River...
The 2011 Masters Championship
With four birdies on the last four holes, South African Charl Schwartzel captured one of the most exciting and wide-open Masters in the championship's storied 76-year history. Here were some of the sights this week at Augusta National Golf Club...
Charl Schwartzel Wins 2011 Masters Championship
Tiger Woods charged, Rory McIlory imploded, and in the end South African Charl Schwartzel took the Green Jacket at the 76th Masters championship.
During the wildest Sunday at Augusta National in recent memory third round leader McIlory's ugly triple bogey on the tenth hole left nine players -- representing every continent on earth besides Antarctic -- within two strokes of the lead...
5 Helpful Tips for a Successful Tax Return
It’s tax time! It can get overwhelming to file all alone. Here are a few resources that might help.
The IRS Website
The IRS’s website, while written in legalese, is the ultimate guide to everything you’ll need to know about your taxes. Here, you can download tax forms and find out which items are deductible. The site is a valuable resource if you’re filing your own taxes.
9 Fantastic Hole-in-One Videos
While there have only been 21 hole-in-ones in the 74 tournament history of the Masters Tournament, there's been a rush of Augusta aces as of late -- seven in the last seven years.
So there's a good chance that during the 75th playing of the Masters some lucky golfer will require only one shot to breach one of the fabled course's four par threes...
5 Great Ways to Spend Your Tax Refund
It’s tax season, but that also means it's tax return season, too. In 2010, the average return was $3,036. That’s a lot of money to get at one time. With all that extra cash, you might be asking yourself, "How should I spend it?"
Here are few ideas.
UConn Beats Butler 53-41 in Sloppy NCAA Title Game
The NCAA title game can be summed up in one word: Ugly.
How ugly? The combined 95 points between UConn and Butler shattered the previous combined low in a shot-clock-era title game by a whopping 26 points. Butler didn't hit their second two point shot until 12:32 mark in the second half, and ended the game shooting an inconceivably bad 12 for 64...
Butler and Connecticut to Face Off in NCAA Tournament Title Game
Virginia Commonwealth University’s storybook run from play-in game to Final Four ended Saturday night, as Butler will be crashing the NCAA’s title game for the second year in a row.
Shelvin Mack paced the Bulldogs with 24 points on five for six three-point shooting, and Butler downed VCU 70-62 in a hard fought battle that was closer than its final score...
NCAA Basketball Tournment Round-Up – Cinderellas In the Final Four
Virginia Commonwealth University and Butler will meet Saturday in the most unlikely Final Four match up in NCAA Tournament history.
Led by Jamie Skeen’s 26 points, 11-seed VCU continued their impressive run of giant slaying with a surprisingly easy 71-61 victory over the one-seed Kansas Jayhawks...
NCAA Basketball Tournament – Week One Highlights
The first week of the NCAA Basketball Tournament has been put to rest. Here are the highlights:
ESPN Employees Banned From Filling Out NCAA Tournament Brackets
In workplaces all over America, folks spent Thursday morning scrambling to get their NCAA tournament brackets filled out before it was too late.
Not so at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. That's because employees at ESPN -- which had been promoting its bracket challenge front and center on its website -- are banned from any bracket activity while at work...