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Our Favorite Reducing Taxes Websites
If you think playing with taxes is fun... you're at the right place. Once I figured out that it's like a mystery game, and you win by finding the best clues, it got to be rather interesting. The prize? Aaahhh! That's up to you. It could be as little as a few hundred dollars... or if you follow the trail of clues diligently... it could be thousands of dollars. Whichever way you go... it will be the best hourly rate you've ever earned.

But there are two tricks here.

1) It's not enough to simply follow the clues - you also have to follow the instructions once you get there.

2) No cheating. There are enough legal tricks you can use; there's no need to break the law to win.

Got it? Good! So, let's get started playing detective.

Nolo Press
If you're trying to manage your tax life without a safety net (spelled '‘professional help'), you must get familiar with Nolo Press. Not only do these folks have some of the best workbooks on the market, their site has a wealth of clues on tax reduction and planning. Read up on estates, audits, filing late, incorporating... even creating a non-profit organization. If you can't find answers in the articles on the site, Ask Auntie Nolo.
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Tax Hotline
Shhh! This is one of your tax professional's best kept secrets. The Tax Hotline highlights IRS's wins and losses - and includes interviews with some of the best tax minds, who provide great planning advice. Without paying thousands of dollars for the full tax research libraries, your pro could look just as smart as their wealthier professionals by using the material in this semi-monthly newsletter. Well, now, my friends, the information is online. Just put your topic into their search field... and you're on your way.
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US News Online
Digging, digging, digging... looking for financial calculators and tools to make real-life decisions. After finding lots of sites with really weak tools, I found a wealth of good tools here. Everyone asks about lease vs. buy decisions (home, auto)... You can even learn what you'd have to save to become a millionaire.
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Quicken.com
More tax calculators here that you won't find at US News Online. Pay no attention to the energy these folks put into selling you product... although, for personal use, this is my bookkeeping tool of choice. (For business use - my clients use QuickBooks, because it forgives your errors.) One great feature is that it will let you figure your taxes online. If you don't print the return - you don't have to pay. But, you can get an idea of where you stand before you prepare your own return, or go to your tax pro.
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Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
While this is not the fanciest site online, it is certainly one of the most useful. Anytime I'm away from my research disks and need more in-depth information than TaxMama has, I come here to scout for tax clues. While this opens you up to the world of the tax pro, with all the academic and professional software links, it also provides links to forms, newsletters, and news that you can use.
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Reducing Taxes Newsletters
While playing tax detective may be fun, what you uncover today may be useless tomorrow.

But, you can keep up with the changes - for free - by subscribing to these publications.

Motley Fool - Tax Strategies Board
Looking for lively discussion, a sense of humor, and lots of different topics? The Fools here cover quite a range of tax issues. And since the site's focus is on investing, you'll find information here about the more complicated ISO's, NSO's and other alphabet soup and Internet-wealth-related tax problems. Don't you wish you had those problems? Stick around here, maybe you will! :)
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