Personal Finance and Investing

“Take control of your online reputation!” urges the new website BrandYourself.

Your name could be one of the 80 million names Googled every day, according to BrandYourself. Founded after CEO Pete Kistler realized his name was the same as that of a convicted felon, BrandYourself became a platform to improve and expand an individual’s online reputation.

BrandYourself has its roots at Syracuse Tech Garden’s student sandbox companies in the summer of 2009. Today, the company continues to receive accolades and honors for its innovation.

The purpose of BrandYourself is to help users improve their entire online reputation from one central online location. Much li

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A credit report contains all necessary information about your identity just like any other document. It contains your full name, current and previous address, social security number, telephone number, current and previous employers, and birth date. Social status may also be asked when necessary, so if you are married, you must also write down the information about your spouse. The bulk of your report is your credit history, which is a detailed breakdown of all the business transactions, incoming and outgoing, over a period of time.

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If your budget is so tight that you feel like you cannot find room to breathe, then you are probably in need of some way of freeing up your cash so that you can relieve some stress. While you may not necessarily be in a position to be able to overhaul your whole budget, there are still some things that you can do to make your budget a little more manageable, and the tips listed below are going to help you achieve this. At the very least, they are going to give you an increase in breathing room.

Tip #1 – The easiest way that you are going to be able to relieve some budget stress is by increasing the amount of income that you bring in.

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Most people assume that when parents are divorced or separated, the parent who has primary custody of any children takes the dependency exemption when filing taxes. Indeed, since 1985, the IRS has allowed the parent with custody to take the exemption by default.

However, as is true in so many areas of personal finance, the default choice may not be the best one for all parties involved.

How the Dependency Exemption Affects Your Tax Return

Every dependency exemption reduces taxable income by $3,650 (for 2010). For a parent in the 25% tax bracket, thats a tax savings of $912.50 per child.

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