{"id":3170,"date":"2008-12-15T07:54:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T13:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2011-08-14T20:20:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T01:20:53","slug":"fridays-appearance-on-cnbcs-on-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/fridays-appearance-on-cnbcs-on-the-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s appearance on CNBC&#8217;s On the Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, I was on CNBC&#8217;s personal finance show On The Money on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bzNCkLsVBRE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nYou can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=284:year-end-tax-planning-for-consumers&amp;catid=15:recent-articles-a-press&amp;Itemid=64\">watch the second Web Extra video here<\/a>. I offered the following year-end tax tips to help consumers:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Update your name with the Social Security Administration so that your name matches on all documents.<\/li>\n<li>Plan and max out your retirement contribution between now and April 14, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>See if you can do a Roth IRA contribution in addition to your 401k at work.<\/li>\n<li>Make charitable contributions if you itemize your deductions.<\/li>\n<li>Medical costs that exceed 7.5% of your income are deductible as an itemized deduction. If you&#8217;re going to benefit from this deduction, then pay for as many medical expenses as you can in 2008 to get the tax benefits.<\/li>\n<li>Pay your property taxes, which are deductible in the year paid.<\/li>\n<li>Sell losing investments if you need the capital losses to offset other capital gains.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a Flexible Spending Account for medical expenses at work, make sure you use up your funds by the end of the year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be on again this week, so check out On\u00a0 The Money every weeknight at 8:00 pm central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, I was on CNBC&#8217;s personal finance show On The Money on Friday. You can watch the second Web Extra video here. I offered the following year-end tax tips to help consumers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[824,826,822],"tags":[1200,1201,1199],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-protection","category-taxes-tax-fraud","category-videos","tag-carmen-wong-ulrich","tag-cnbc","tag-on-the-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-P8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}