Filing and planning used to go hand in hand. But with the tax code ever more complicated and tax preparation software ubiquitous, it's now tough to figure out why you owe what you owe on your current return, let alone how you might limit that tab down the road. Put the planning back into tax time with our advice on how to file and claim tax breaks for 2008 and ideas for future savings-for parents, investors, the newly self-employed and those hit hard by the recession.
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