{"id":645981,"date":"2013-03-08T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=e6026d22d9a3ad38748e93925892b94e"},"modified":"2013-03-08T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:53:08","slug":"tax-time-is-the-perfect-time-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645981","title":{"rendered":"Tax Time is the Perfect Time to Save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#39;s Note: this post originally appeared as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/blog\/category\/national-consumer-protection-week\/\">part of a series for National Consumer Protection Week<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/blog\/tax-time-is-the-perfect-time-to-save\/\">ConsumerFinance.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Filing taxes doesn&rsquo;t have to be the worst. For some, tax time can offer an opportunity to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/blog\/save-like-mike\/\">set some money aside<\/a> for goals or a rainy day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/Individuals\/EITC-Income-Limits,-Maximum-Credit--Amounts-and-Tax-Law-Updates\">The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a refundable tax credit for low to moderate income working individuals and families<\/a>. EITC can even reduce taxes and result in a refund. Last year, over 27 million consumers received nearly $62 billion in EITC.<\/p>\n<p>Many people who are eligible for free tax services, for example, at IRS-approved&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eitc.irs.gov\/central\/abouteitc\/\">Volunteer Income Tax Assistant (VITA) sites<\/a>, pay to have their taxes prepared. Money saved by using free tax prep, added to part of a refund, could go right into a savings account or be used to pay down debt.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to taking advantage of free tax services, there are many other ways to save. You can save automatically by having a portion of your refund or your paycheck deposited directly to a savings account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/08\/tax-time-perfect-time-save\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#39;s Note: this post originally appeared as part of a series for National Consumer Protection Week on ConsumerFinance.gov. Filing taxes doesn&rsquo;t have to be the worst. For some, tax time can offer an opportunity to&nbsp;set some money aside for goals or a rainy day. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a refundable tax credit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}