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Syracuse University's Transactional Records AccessClearinghouse has added an app to its recently released annual report on theIRS that lets users drill down to tax return information across all 50 statesand every one of more than 3,000 counties.

U.S. executives remain more optimistic about theirbusiness prospects over the next year than their counterparts in Europe,according to the latest Global Business Outlook survey from Big Four firm KPMG.

Small-business owners see conditions for their businessesgetting worse in the next six months, according to a new survey.

Jobs in the private sector declined by 23,000 in March, with small businesses shouldering more than half of that decline in employmentaccording to the monthly National Employment Report released by payroll concernADP.

Just in time for Financial Literacy Month in April, Lance Barnard, a 17-year-old high school junior in New Jersey, has hit the Internet with a new Web site offering information and insight about financial literacy – directed at his peers.

IMGCAP(1)]Several lucrative federal tax incentives have been extended and enhanced for energy efficient design, construction, and improvement of buildings and homes.

Fifteen of the largest U.S. states have forecast gains intax revenue for 2011, ending a two-year slide in tax collections, while all 50states expect to hike collections by about 3.5 percent.

The Senate has temporarily extended two provisionsenacted in the Recovery Act that increase government guarantees and eliminatefees on small-business loans through April 30.

Taxpayers may have to finish filing their taxes by April15, but they'll have earned enough to pay their share by April 9, according tothe Tax Foundation.

A 65-year-old couple retiring this year will need aquarter of a million dollars to pay for medical expenses throughout retirement,not including nursing-home care, according to a new study.