Some of Mark's perfectly cooked golden marshmellows, YUM!
Brandon brushes his teeth for bed
Drew offers up his lunch
Mark has made his big announcement about leaving his job at On Time Express and going on his own. We are both excited about the possibilities that lie ahead of us.
This is Bill, the new owner of our store. His first day trying to learn the ropes.
Kennedy surprised us all when she made it on stage and performed flawlessly for all of us. We all enjoyed the 'good job' party with some ice cream!
Were tax returns always due on April 15?
No. Until 1955, returns were due on March15. From 1913 to 1918, they were due even earlier, with taxpayers scrambling to meet a March 1 deadline.
In 1954, Congress changed the date to give IRS employees a break. Most returns were filed near the deadline, swamping agency employees. Lawmakers hoped a later deadline would encourage taxpayers to file earlier. Human nature being what it is, returns continued to flood the agency just before the new deadline. In recent years, about 20 percent of returns have been filed in the last week of the filing season.
For millions of Americans, April 15 is a day of dread, replete with a last-minute dash to the post office. But until 1955, the day of reckoning fell a month earlier. Indeed, Julius Caesar wasn't the only one warned about the ides of March; during World War II, the Treasury Department vigorously reminded Americans that they too had better watch the calendar (see poster reproduction below).
Mark's boss gave him four tickets to the opening game last minute and we invited one of our employees, Alli and her boyfriend Curtis to go with us. D'backs won 9 to 3 and it was a great game.
Pearl shares her pad with Kennedy.
Family dinner at our house! We enjoyed good food, Family Home Evening, Disney movies, playtime in the backyard and the boys play cards as usual. We love entertaining.Tax Freedom Day, the day on which Americans have earned enough money to pay all their federal, state and local taxes for the year, will fall on April 23 this year, according to the Tax Foundation's annual calculation using the latest government data on income and taxes.
Tax Freedom Day is calculated by dividing the official government tally of all taxes collected in each year by the official government tally of all income earned in each year. Governments—federal, state and local—took 29.6% of income in 1970, 30.4% of income in 1980, 33.6% in 2000, and so on. This percentage is the nation's total tax burden. We then use the historical trend and the most recent economic data to make a projection of what the tax burden will be in the current year and we convert that burden into a date—a percentage of the year—on which Americans will have earned enough income to pay their total tax bill for the year.
This year’s Tax Freedom Day falls three days earlier than in 2007. Fiscal stimulus rebates and a projection of slow growth in 2008 are the principal reasons for the earlier celebration. However, if the large projected deficit for 2008 were counted as a tax in the current year, Tax Freedom Day would fall on May 3.
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Had the chance to see John Ralston and his band (Dan and Nate) in Tucson on Tuesday night and then again on Thursday night in Phoenix. Fantastic both shows!
After living only miles from it for years we finally made it to the Mystery Castle. The architecture was strange but the current resident's (builder's daughter) eclectic style was beyond creepy.
