The reporting form for businesses can be found here: http://www.colorado.gov/treasury/gcp/images/FormA.pdf An attorney can give you some guidance on what applies to your situation, and most will, but you do have to pay them!

This isn't Ben's doing - it's the Treasury, Congress and the White House coming up with all these wonderful ideas.

We also have some money in a US Treasury IBond that is paying 6.89% (but that rate is based on inflation... which is high right now)... but it's a good deal at the moment if you can leave your money alone for a year.  

Heck.. even 30 yr treasury bonds would be better. $60,000 @ 2.85% makes you $142.50 tax free a month on average and would be the definition of passive.

Counter argument: they are making payments to someone so as long as the payments go to US owned companies (and Uncle Sam, which is messed up, but Fannie and Freddie are still in receivership with folk's mortgage payments going to the Treasury, so just another brick in the wall, right?)

These investors can also buy 10-year treasuries so you can bet that MBS and CMBS pricing will track the treasury rates to a large extent.

The events in Greece are of incredible concern if you live or are heavily invested in treasuries of one of the other Piigs.

http://www.co.bergen.nj.us/488/MunicipalitiesTaxes brackets for NJ through the government site: http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/lpt/TaxLi... 

******Here's the most interesting point I've read: "Any other service that the Secretary of Economic Development and Commerce determines, after consulting with the Secretary of the Treasury, that should qualify as an eligible export service, based on factors such as jobs to be created, payroll generated and proposed investment in Puerto Rico."

He held up an article from a Chinese newspaper that mentioned China unloading $3.1M of US treasuries.