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If it seems like tax laws are changing every time you time around, it's not your imagination. Over the past eight years, changes to the Tax Code have been made at a rate of more than one a day. According to the office of the National Taxpayer Advocate, there were 500 changes in 2008 alone, many of...
Congress gave recently laid-off workers a holiday gift by extending for six months a subsidy to help them pay health-insurance premiums. It now lasts a total of 15 months, and eligibility for it lasts 60 more days, through February 2010.
The cornerstone American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed into law in February, contained a key provision to help the newly unemployed keep their employer-sponsored health-care plans. Most employees who lose their jobs can keep coverage for up to 18 months, under the Consolidated Omnibus...

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