Top 5 Ways to Spend Your 2011 Tax Refunds
We’re less than two weeks away from Tax Day 2012. If you have not filed your 2011 tax return, do it ASAP. If you have and you’re fortunate enough to get some cash back from Uncle Sam, here are some suggestions on what to do with your refund from Bethesda, Md.-based Taxsoftware.com:
1. Pay off debts: It makes sense. Get closer to ridding yourself of that car payment, education loan or credit card bill.
2. Add to savings or investments: There is nothing wrong with building your Nest Egg or funding a Roth IRA or 529 education savings plan.
3. Take a vacation: Maybe you want to tour Ancient Rome, maybe you want to sip margaritas and soak up the Caribbean sun, maybe you want to ski the Aspen slopes. Maybe you just want to get away …
4. Make home improvements: A renovated bathroom or kitchen would be nice as would a new appliance, or two or three.
5. Buy a car, furniture or electronics: Who doesn’t like new toys?
Andrew Cannarsa has been writing professionally for almost 10 years, first as a crime and safety reporter at a community daily newspaper outside Philadelphia, and then as a business reporter at Baltimore Examiner. He graduated with a journalism degree from Boston University in 2005. Follow him on Twitter @cannarsa.