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This iPad app can reduce your tax bill

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Upping your IRA contributions — and getting the tax break — have never been easier

Just in time for the 2012 tax season: Filers can now use their iPads to help limit the Internal Revenue Service's take.

How? By taking a picture of a check and then depositing it electronically into their Fidelity Investments IRA up to the close of markets April 17.

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