http://askcpasam.com/blog Making Payroll, Tax, Finance, Accounting Understandable Fri, 04 May 2012 13:21:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://askcpasam.com/blog/2011/04/25/the-earned-income-credit/ http://askcpasam.com/blog/2011/04/25/the-earned-income-credit/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:14:02 +0000 CPA Sam http://askcpasam.com/blog/?p=655 Q. What is the Earned Income Credit? A. A common question from my tax preparation clients each year is “Why is my refund so big?”  Many of my clients can’t understand that they are getting a refund bigger than the total of the tax they had withheld from their check during the year.  One major [...]

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