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	<title>&#34;The Bookkeeper&#34; Blog &#187; Tips &amp; Tricks</title>
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		<title>Top Ten Facts about Taking Early Distributions from Retirement Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2010/02/top-ten-facts-about-taking-early-distributions-from-retirement-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax Topics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some taxpayers may have needed to take an early distribution from their retirement plan last year. The IRS wants individuals who took an early distribution to know that there can be a tax impact to tapping your retirement fund.  Here are ten facts about early distributions.

Payments you receive from your Individual Retirement Arrangement before you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to Offset Education Costs</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2010/02/five-ways-to-offset-education-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2010/02/five-ways-to-offset-education-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax Topics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[College can be very expensive. To help students and their parents, the IRS offers the following five ways to offset education costs.

The American Opportunity Credit This credit can help parents and students pay part of the cost of the first four years of college. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act modifies the existing Hope Credit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this Income Taxable?</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2010/02/is-this-income-taxable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax Topics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While most income you receive is generally considered taxable, there are some situations when certain types of income are partially taxed or not taxed at all.
To ensure taxpayers are familiar with the difference between taxable and non-taxable income, the Internal Revenue Service offers these common examples of items that are not included in your income:

Adoption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Facts About Claiming Donations Made to Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2010/01/ten-facts-about-claiming-donations-made-to-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2010/01/ten-facts-about-claiming-donations-made-to-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax Topics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are donating to charities providing earthquake relief in Haiti, you may be able to claim those donations on your 2009 tax return. Here are 10 important facts the Internal Revenue Service wants you to know about this special provision.

A new law allows you to claim donations for Haitian relief on your 2009 tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas Gauge Tip</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2010/01/gas-gauge-tip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2010/01/gas-gauge-tip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So it got lost in my inbox (oops!) but here is another tip from my good friend Simone&#8230;
OK, so I just posted this on a friend&#8217;s FB (because there was a post strain about labels on appliances and cars) and no one else seemed to know it. Did you know that on your car&#8217;s gas gauge, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Tax Topics for Taxpayers with Tots and Teens</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2010/01/ten-tax-topics-for-taxpayers-with-tots-and-teens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2010/01/ten-tax-topics-for-taxpayers-with-tots-and-teens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax Topics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Got Kids? They may have an impact on your tax situation. Listed below are the top 10 things the IRS wants you to consider if you have children.

Dependents In most cases, a child can be claimed as a dependent in the year they were born. For more information see IRS Publication 501, Exemptions, Standard Deduction, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flip your mats people!</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/10/flip-your-mats-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/10/flip-your-mats-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Time to Flip Your Mats! 

Sonia has hinted in the past that I&#8217;m welcome to &#8220;guest&#8221; blog for her, and  I haven&#8217;t really had anything that I thought would be of interest. Except, what  I&#8217;m about to share is exactly the interesting kind of tid-bit she  thought you&#8217;d appreciate. You see, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check your website against several browsers</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/09/check-your-website-against-several-browsers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/09/check-your-website-against-several-browsers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business to Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a tool I have often used for my own website and for those that I have helped design. I never thought of sharing until a friend of mine, who created a site for her husband who is running for a local school board position (jeffsimon.org), posted a link to her husbands site and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pledge Fabric Sweeper-Fantastic!</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/08/pledge-fabric-sweeper-fantastic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/08/pledge-fabric-sweeper-fantastic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I have pets, a dog and two cats (and a HUMONGUS Oscar named Oscar but he doesn&#8217;t count for this purpose). I am sitting on the couch and I see a commercial AGAIN for the pledge fabric sweeper and I decide at that very moment that I need to have this product. If it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Microsoft Office 2007 documents in previous Office versions</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/open-microsoft-office-2007-documents-in-previous-office-versions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/open-microsoft-office-2007-documents-in-previous-office-versions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business to Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I still make the ridiculous assumption that if I have updated to Office 2007 then EVERYONE must have updated, right? Wrong (right dad?). So, if you are tired of calling or email the folks who forget to save their documents in a 2003 (or earlier) compatible format before sending them to you (sorry dad), or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Password Protect your Microsoft Office Documents</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/password-protect-your-microsoft-office-documents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/password-protect-your-microsoft-office-documents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business to Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever create documents on your computer that you don&#8217;t want anyone else to be able to open? Most of use do. Or maybe you want to send a document by email but want to make sure only the intended recipient can open it. Follow these simple instructions to restrict access to certain documents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hardboiled Eggs Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/hardboiled-eggs-tips/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/hardboiled-eggs-tips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I just made a pot of hard boiled eggs and when I was talking to my girlfriend she mentioned how her hard boiled eggs always are a pain in the rear to peel and have a green ring around the yolk. I rarely have that issue (and I say rarely since I do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BACKUP YOUR FILES!</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/backup-your-files/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/backup-your-files/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I get a call from a client today &#8211; all of his data is gone. He has no clue what happened. He was cleaning up his computer &#8220;to make it go faster&#8221; (as I am sure many of you have, PLEASE have someone who knows what they are doing complete this task as you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Ad or not to Ad?</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/to-ad-or-not-to-ad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/to-ad-or-not-to-ad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business to Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just Me]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this post is kinda of two fold. First off I decided I need to add another column to the left right of my blog posts to display advertisements. This is a much debated topic among the blog world but my personal preference it to have them. Why? you might ask. Well&#8230; I like ads. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debit/Credit</title>
		<link>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/debitcredit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.srwbooks.com/blog/2009/07/debitcredit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In bookkeeping, Debit means left and Credit means right, not decrease and increase like most people think. In other words, debits are left-column entries and credits are right-column entries. A debit may increase one type of account and decrease another. So if your bookkeeper tells you they made a debit to your bank account and [...]]]></description>
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