[block border="5px solid #aacb24" padding="10px 15px"]Sticking to budgets and diets[/block]

Budgets, like diets, are short lived for most of us. You do a proper job of planning by looking over the past and determining where you need to make changes to meet your goals. And, you live by your plan for a few days, maybe even a few weeks. But, then all the detail of keeping track of what comes and goes gets to be more than you are willing to put up with.

While taxes owed are always due on or before the filing date of April 15^th, taxpayers have the option of filing a tax extension that effectively moves their filing date to October 15^th. Is this ever a good thing to do? Sometimes the answer is yes.