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White House Web page shows you where your tax dollars go

Wondering what Uncle Sam does with your hard-earned tax dollars? The White House's Taxpayer Receipt page has been updated for 2011 to help answer that question.

To get started you'll need to enter the social security tax, medicare tax, and income tax that you paid for 2011. If that information isn't handy, you can estimate by choosing from a range of households and incomes, such as single with no children, married with one child, or married with two children.

In return, the site displays how much you doled out in tax dollars to the Fed for last … Read more

Medicare, veterans to get downloadable health info

SAN LEANDRO, Calif.--The U.S. government is adding a new "blue button" to the Medicare and Veterans Affairs Web sites that will allow veterans and seniors on Medicare to download their health records onto their own computers. The program, though live already, is set to be formally unveiled by the White House tomorrow, CNET has learned.

For some time, the government has allowed both Medicare recipients and veterans to view their medical records or claims history, but is only now adding the download option, Health and Human Services department CTO Todd Park said in an interview today … Read more

Tax totals

Many small businesses have software--or even outside companies--that handle employee payroll. Businesses with very few employees, however, may find that they can still manage payroll by hand. Vinny Federal Withholding Tax is a basic program that calculates appropriate payroll withholdings based on gross pay, pay period, and dependents. This is by no means a full-featured payroll solution, but for a quick withholding calculator, it works fine.

The program's interface is plain and pretty self-explanatory. Users enter the gross salary and any additional income or withholdings, select the length of the pay period and the employee's marital status, and … Read more