Consider sales tax, gasoline tax, cigarette tax, alcohol tax, excise tax, etc. Give a real answer!!!!!! Oh, and state tax, Texas doesn’t have, but we make up for it taxes on everything else. A real answer about what we pay in taxes?

Obama’s tax break for 95% of people includes 40+% of people that do not pay taxes. Plus he is not planning to extend the Bush tax cuts, therefor increasing taxes on 49% or tax payers.

My brother died in May 2007. He left behind a 2 year old daughter who lives with my parents who have guardianship of her.
Do they:
1. File their taxes as usual and claim my niece on their taxes as a dependent? or
2. File taxes on behalf of my brother and claim her on his taxes? or
3. Do they even need to file taxes on his behalf?
We’ve tried looking online on the IRS website and can’t find anything pertaining to this situation.

Any suggestions?

I was a officer in a corporation. I never received any pay. When the corporation when bankrupt it owed sales tax and withholdong taxes. I had to pay these taxes out of my pocket. Are these taxes deductable from my federal taxes.

I am completing a 3 month internship in Idaho, but will return to California upon completion. What is the best way to file taxes? Idaho’s state taxes are actually higher than Cali, so I would like to avoid them. Someone else mentioned they are just having their taxes withheld by their originating state, Is this possible? Of course, I would like to have the least taxes taken out, so if there is anyway I can pay only California taxes on the money I would love to know how?

My fiance and I live in Nebraska, he works in Iowa. I have heard that he has to pay taxes in both states. Is this true? If so, will the credit issued for payment to one state equal the additional taxes paid to the other state? Will he wind up paying more combined taxes, than if we just lived in the same state he works in? We are not yet homeowners, but when we do buy, will the deduction for our mortgage interest in Nebraska be credited toward the taxes owed in Iowa?