WHAT’S THE BUZZ, TELL ME WHAT’S A HAPPENNIN’?

 
* Giving Tuesday was last week – but Kay Bell’s “6 tax donation deduction tips for Giving Tuesday” applies to any day (under current tax law).
 
* Speaking of charitable contributions, Kristin McKenna goes into detail on one tax-wise way of giving in “Donating Stock To Charity” at FORBES.COM.
 
* Ho! Ho! Ho! Returning to Kay Bell, she also lists “8 tax moves to make this December”.
 
* A BOBSERVATIONS post about a Christmas classic this week.
 
* I recently found that back in September KIPLINGER.COM updated its “State-by-State Guide to Taxes on Middle-Class Families”.
 
New Jersey is the 4^th least tax-friendly state, just beating out #5 New York.  I do believe that in the past NJ had been the least-friendly, so there has been progress made in my former home state.
 
* The NATP BLOG answers questions about retirement plans and retirement plan distributions in “Differentiating between retirement plans and their tax reporting components”.

TTFN