"It's Just a Breeze" Delivers 25 Gs!Grand Prize Winner Takes Home $25,000 in TurboTax TaxRap Contest SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Taxes usually get a bad rap. But for Christian Pulfer, a 28-year-old real estate investor A real estate investor is someone who actively or passively invests in real estate. An active investor may buy a property, make repairs and/or improvements to the property, and sell it later for a profit. from Brooklyn, N.Y., rapping about taxes paid off to the tune of $25,000. The grand prize winner in the TurboTax TaxRap contest, Pulfer's entry, "It's Just a BreezeOG," was selected by guest judge Vanilla Ice Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1968), better known as Vanilla Ice, is a Grammy Award nominated, American Music Award winning American rapper and actor known mostly for the 1990 single "Ice Ice Baby. from more than 370 homemade home·made adj. 1. Made or prepared in the home: homemade pie. 2. Made by oneself. 3. Crudely or simply made. Adj. 1. rap videos. "If you need a dollar, holler, 'cuz I got a lot back," Pulfer raps in his video, which will be showcased on the homepage of www.YouTube.com on April 15. "This video stood out as one of the most individual and creative entries," said Vanilla Ice. "The lyrical content, his style as a rapper - he put it all together and had some fun with it." In addition, Carl Tietze from Portland, Ore., was named the $5,000 first-place winner, and Rhett McLaughlin and Zink Neal from Fuquay-Verina, N.C., were the $1,000 second-place winners. The winners were selected from the 13 finalists who garnered top votes from YouTube viewers. Intuit in·tu·it tr.v. in·tu·it·ed, in·tu·it·ing, in·tu·its Usage Problem To know intuitively. [Back-formation from intuition. (Nasdaq:INTU INTU Intuit, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), maker of TurboTax, the most-trusted tax preparation software, sponsored the TaxRap contest, which ran from Feb. 8 to March 30 on YouTube and at www.TheTaxRap.com. Collectively, the rap videos were viewed more than 2.5 million times. Intuit launched the contest with an original rap video by Vanilla Ice, titled "TurboTax Mojo," which garnered more than 1 million views with homepage takeovers on YouTube, ranking as the most viewed entertainment video in its debut week. For TaxRap fans, a free "best of" TaxRap compilation audio download will be available via iTunes at http://audio.TheTaxRap.com. About Intuit Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions, including banks and credit unions; consumers; and accounting professionals. Its flagship products A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. and services, including QuickBooks[R], Quicken A popular financial management program for PCs and Macs from Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.intuit.com). It is used to write checks, organize investments and produce a variety of reports for personal finance and small business. [R] and TurboTax[R] software, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries[R] and Lacerte[R] are Intuit's leading tax preparation software suites for professional accountants. The company's financial institutions division, anchored by Digital Insight, provides on-demand banking services to help banks and credit unions serve businesses and consumers with innovative solutions. Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of $2.3 billion in its fiscal year 2006. The company has more than 8,100 employees, with major offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, the United Kingdom and other locations. More information can be found at www.intuit.com. Intuit, the Intuit logo and TurboTax, among others, are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other parties' trademarks or service marks are the property of their respective owners and should be treated as such. Please note: Digital clip of winning video "It's Just a BreezeOG" and audio of call from Vanilla Ice to winner are available. |
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