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Tax Tip: IRS Pension Plan Limitations Announced
The Internal Revenue Service announced on October 16, 2008 cost-of-living adjustments applicable to dollar limitations for pension plans and other items for tax year 2009. Section 415 of the Internal…
- November 16th, 2008
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Tax Tip: Taxes for Earning Money on Your Hobbies
The Internal Revenue Service reminds taxpayers to follow appropriate guidelines when determining whether an activity is engaged in for profit, such as a business or investment activity, or is engaged…
- November 14th, 2008
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In Case You Missed It: Shoeboxed November Newsletter
Got friends? Invite them to Shoeboxed and earn credits on your account. Hi, Over the last month we’ve been busy upgrading the Shoeboxed web application, adding new features and preparing for…
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Tax Tip: Take Advantage of Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded almost $8 million in matching grants to support its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. Under the VITA Grant Program, the IRS awarded matching grants to 1…
- November 13th, 2008
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Holiday Gift Guide 2008
Over here at Shoeboxed, we’re excited about the holidays, and we’re happy about all the people that will get Shoeboxed subscriptions as a presents in the next couple of months. Any good Ho…
- November 12th, 2008
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Hand Out More Business Cards
With the large number of companies that print business cards, it is relatively easy to order your own business cards. You can design your own in just a few minutes and order hundreds to arrive in your…
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Tax Tip: Claim Your Gambling Winnings and Losses!
What will you owe Uncle Sam if Lady Luck happens to be on your side? Gambling winnings are fully taxable and must be reported on your tax return. You must file Form 1040 and include all of your winnin…
- November 11th, 2008
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Collecting Business Cards
Now that Shoeboxed scans business cards, we encourage you to collect as many cards as you can. By sending them in to Shoeboxed, you will have a complete archive of all your cards. Before Shoeboxed, we…
- November 10th, 2008
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Tax Tip: Want a bigger paycheck? Check out the Advanced Earned Income Credit.
Why wait? You may be eligible for a tax credit right now that could mean larger paychecks this summer. This benefit is called the Advanced Earned Income Credit or Advance EIC. If you expect to qualify…
- November 8th, 2008
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Tax Tip: Claiming Home Office Deductions
If you plan to run your small business out of your home you may be temped to “write-off” many of your household expenses. But how do you know what is deductible and what is not? The IRS ha…
- November 7th, 2008
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Holiday Shopping: Tell Yourself You’re Ready
You know it’s coming. You know it because you see Santas in department stores, you see holiday deals, and you hear people complaining about how it’s already happening. But love it or not (…
- November 6th, 2008
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Tax Tip: Special Tax Relief for Mortgage Forgiveness
There is now tax relief for struggling homeowners. If your mortgage debt is partly or entirely forgiven during 2007, 2008 or 2009 you may be able to claim special tax relief by filling out Form 982 an…
- November 5th, 2008
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Check Your Receipt
Shoeboxed has written before about the importance of checking your receipts when the retailer gives them to you. Merchants do not always print receipts correctly, and often times cashiers make mista…
- November 4th, 2008
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Tax Tip: Keep Receipts for Charitable Donations
Did you make a cash contribution to your favorite charity? Have you recently spent a weekend cleaning stuff out of your garage or basement that you then donated to a local charity? Charitable contribu…
- November 3rd, 2008
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Designing the Perfect Business Card
When you exchange business cards with someone, you have the opportunity to make a great first impression. And unless you work for a large or established company, you probably have some influence into…
- November 2nd, 2008
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Tax Tip: Moving Expenses Related to a New Job May Be Tax Deductible
Did you recently move to another city for a new job or because your old job is now at a new location? A tax break may be coming your way. How far you moved and the amount of time you spend on the job…
- October 31st, 2008
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Upgrade Your Membership on Your Account & Settings Page
Exciting Update: You can now upgrade your Shoeboxed account to include our Mail-In program on your Account & Settings page. It’s easy to upgrade to any one of our three plans, Lite, Classic,…
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Tax Tip: Selling Your Home
During summer months, many people sell their home and move to a new location. Many of those individuals will make a profit on the sale and still will not have to pay a single dime of additional income…
- October 30th, 2008
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Shoeboxed Now Records Payment Type For Your Receipts
You may notice some changes in your account when you log in next time, as we released a big batch of upgrades and updates to the site this evening. The feature that you probably notice the most is the…
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Tax Tip: Tax Credit to Aid First-Time Homebuyers; Must Be Repaid Over 15 Years
WASHINGTON – First-time homebuyers should begin planning now to take advantage of a new tax credit included in the recently enacted Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. Available for a limited…
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Introducing: Tax Tips
I don’t know about you, but it’s almost November, and I see Tax Season 2008 right around the corner. Since many people use Shoeboxed to organize their receipts for tax purposes, Shoeboxed…
- October 28th, 2008
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Get Accurate Information from Your Business Card Scans
When you are thinking about how to best organize your business cards, you may be tempted to buy a scanner to do it yourself. Sure, you could buy a scanner for your business cards and scan them in your…
- October 27th, 2008
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Business Cards for Moms
We all know that being a mom is full time job (at the very least). Well, since many people that are full-time professionals have business cards, we wondered why moms don’t have business cards as…
- October 26th, 2008
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Business Card Etiquette
In the normal course of my Shoeboxed work reading up on receipts and business cards, I found this great video about business card etiquette. Having spent a summer in Japan myself, I can attest to the…
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Tax Question: Independent Contractors or Employees?
Many small business that are getting ready to file their taxes wonder whether their workers should be counted as employees or as independent contractors. I wanted to quickly point you in the right dir…
- October 23rd, 2008
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IRS Tips To Avoid Tax Scams
With Tax Season coming up, we want to make sure you are well protected against any scams or misinformation you may come across when organizing your receipts and getting ready to file. We thought we…
- October 22nd, 2008
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Shoeboxed Places Second In Industry Standard 100 Awards!
The Industry Standard has released the results of the Industry Standard 100 Awards! After a public vote and a editorial review of Shoeboxed, we have been awarded second place in the Productivity categ…
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Review: Shoeboxed Business Cards Interface
We’ve seen a ton of people signing up over the last two days to use our brand new business card service. You can now send in business cards along with your receipts; we’ll scan them and…
- October 20th, 2008
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Shoeboxed for Business Cards!
Since we started Shoeboxed about two years ago, we have been all about receipts: email receipts, uploaded receipts, and finally paper receipts via our Receipt Mail-In program. But Shoeboxed has the po…
- October 14th, 2008
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Shoeboxed Review: Inviting Friends
I know I’ve talked quite a bit about our Shoeboxed referral program, but I wanted to give you a friendly Shoeboxed Review. The majority of people on Shoeboxed invite friends, so I really do want…
- October 13th, 2008
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IRS Tax Extension Deadline Approaching
April 15th, the most dreaded day of the year, right? It’s when our taxes are due, and regardless of how much you support government programs, we all feel the pain of signing over a big check to…
- October 12th, 2008
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Your New Shoeboxed Dashboard
Here at Shoeboxed, we’ve been making moves this past week. In that time we’ve added a great new feature: autocategorization of receipts into 15 common tax categories. We’ve been feat…
- October 10th, 2008
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I’m Loving It!
I’ve got to say: sometimes you all surprise me. Like today, when I found this awesome little gem about Shoeboxed out there. This little gem didn’t seem like much at first. Actually, I was…
- October 9th, 2008
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Shoeboxed on Lifehacker Again!
I wanted to jump in quickly again here to mention that Lifehacker wrote about us this morning. Read more at http://lifehacker.com/5061076/shoeboxed-now-auto+tags-your-submitted-receipts We were on Lif…
- October 8th, 2008
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Emails from Shoeboxed
Another quickie: We’ve been experiencing some problems with emails going out today due to a large amount of traffic coming from the CNET/Webware article that ran earlier today. Emails appear to…
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Shoeboxed on CNET / Webware!
Josh Lowensohn wrote up a great review of our new AutoCategorization feature on CNET! Read it here, and feel free to post a comment about how much you love Shoeboxed. I did!
- October 7th, 2008
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Your Receipts Automatically Categorized!
FEATURE UPDATE: In addition to our fancy new homepage, Shoeboxed has added a new feature that automatically categorizes your receipts into common tax categories. Based on a sophisticated algorithm tha…
- September 30th, 2008
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Store Tag Clouds!
Our programmers are hard at work finishing up some very big improvements to Shoeboxed that should go up in the next couple of weeks, and I wanted to share one of the smaller ones with you. Advanced, i…
- September 29th, 2008
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Insider Tips on How to Get Faster Scanning
Though we do our best to process your Receipt Mail-In envelopes in the order they arrive in our office, not all envelopes are equal, and we do fast-track envelopes that have receipts that are prepped…
- September 26th, 2008
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Check Your Receipt Information
I came across a blog entry this morning, and it struck me as very interesting. This blog took the time to point out how important it is to check the information on your receipts. This seemed so basic…
- September 25th, 2008
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Shoeboxed for Audits
I talk to a lot of people that need to organize their receipts. Most of them are interested in having their receipts in digital form so that they can have them accessible whenever they need them. Havi…
- September 22nd, 2008
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Hit By A Hurricane? You May Be Eligible For Tax Relief.
Like most Americans, we have been thinking about all the people Texas and the Southeast that have been ravaged with inclement weather over the past few weeks. Here in North Carolina, we almost got sma…
- September 19th, 2008
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Use Gmail Filters to Auto-forward Receipts to Shoeboxed
With Gmail, it is easy to set up filters that will automatically forward certain email messages to another address based on rules that you set. This can be helpful for use with Shoeboxed, as you can t…
- September 17th, 2008
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Tell Your Friends and Colleagues About Shoeboxed
If you’re a Receipt Mail-In User, you’ve probably noticed the red cards that we have been placing in the envelopes that we send to you. I wanted to take a moment on the blog to explain wha…
- September 16th, 2008
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Why Our New Pricing Benefits You
Though we are still synching up our the two registration processes that we have for Shoeboxed, I wanted to go ahead and talk about the new pricing that we have up for our main registration site, http:…
- September 11th, 2008
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In Case You Missed It: September Newsletter
Hi, Welcome to the second ever Shoeboxed monthly newsletter! We’ve got a few important updates for you today, including our new mailing address, new prices for Shoeboxed Receipt Mail-In, and im…
- September 9th, 2008
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You’ve Got Questions. We’ve Got Answers.
If you’ve been reading this blog for long, you know that over here at Shoeboxed, we take pride in our customer support. We want everyone to get the information and access that they need from us,…
- September 8th, 2008
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Geezeo Can Help You With the Rest of Your Finances
Geezeo, a free personal finance web application, has redesigned their website and launched several new features to help its users manage their money better today. We think many of you will find Geezeo…
- September 4th, 2008
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How Not to Commit Identity Theft
Nobody likes an identity thief; that’s for sure. Everybody loves to see an identity thief go down in flames, but pretending you are someone else to steal money has been an increasingly common cr…
- September 2nd, 2008
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Our New Office!
Shoeboxed has moved! Our new offices are just a couple of blocks down the same street in downtown Durham, North Carolina. We’re excited about the move, as we have a great new colorful space in t…
