Thomson Reuters Tax Analyst Guides Taxpayers through the 1040 Process for a Turbulent 2008 While the process of filing your return each year is pretty much the same, it will be important to watch the details and consider new options when rounding up your statements of income, figuring out your standard or itemized deductions, subtracting [...]
Data through November 2008, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller(1) Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, shows continued broad based declines in the prices of existing single family homes across the United States, with 11 of the 20 metro areas showing record rates of annual decline, and 14 [...]
Existing-home sales rose unexpectedly while inventory declined, led by a surge of sales in the West, according to the National Association of Realtors(R). Existing-home sales — including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops — jumped 6.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate(1) of 4.74 million units in December from a downwardly revised pace of 4.45 [...]
Take-over begins a comprehensive growth by acquisition strategy for the pre-IPO company U.S. Debt Settlement(TM) (USDS) and Compass Credit Services, Inc. have announced that their respective companies have completed their agreement under which U.S. Debt Settlement has acquired the assets of Compass Credit Services, a consumer debt reduction and management services company. Compass Credit, based [...]