The Hot Trend in Funeral Business? Cremation, of Course

OK, forgive me. I know that headline was sort of cheesy. But when you’ve spent the past few months working on a documentary on the business of death, you go for the cheap laugh whenever you can.

I’ve been to casket-manufacturing companies, funeral homes, mortuary science schools and the annual convention of the National Funeral Directors Association. You don’t know fun until you’ve partied with 6,000 funeral professionals…

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Expiring credits, deductions extended by Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taxpayers preparing to file their 2012 returns can breathe a collective sigh of relief.

The alternative minimum tax or AMT has been patched — permanently — and several tax credits and deductions that technically expired at the end of 2011 were extended as part of the fiscal cliff legislation that Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law in January…

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