FINANCIAL CUSHION FOR HARD TIMES
Monday, June 27
Raise your hand if you’re still waiting on a response from the IRS about your refund. With the now 21.3 million returns piled up in the IRS’s inbox, it’s no wonder. Just last week, the IRS got an earful from the Taxpayer Advocate for the growing backlog of unprocessed returns. So, there are also ...
THERE IS NEVER A CONVENIENT TIME
Monday, June 20
Yeah, we all know that old adage about death and taxes (one with which I’m intimately familiar in my line of work). Yet so few people think to plan for either inevitability. We seem to have an obsession with avoiding them – and believe me, I get it. And I’m obviously deeply engaged on the “tax p...
OKAY, SHOW ME THE MONEY
Monday, June 20
SHOW ME THE… …payment methods! Try to come up with one thing that’s more important to your business than taking in revenue smoothly. Yeah, I couldn’t, either. And making sure that revenue is coming in becomes almost an obsession when you’re feeling the squeeze of inflation on your profit margins....
IF YOU HAVE TO FACE THE IRS ALONE
Monday, June 20
With the tax deadline firmly in the rearview, most people are enjoying pool time and picnics, free of the tax worries of springtime. (Though perhaps not free of all the inflation and stock market pressures we’re all currently facing. Hang in there.) But that’s not true of everyone. For some unlu...
WHEN THE CASH FLOW SLows
Tuesday, June 14
Because we’re talking cash flow management today… with a recession looming on the horizon and the effects of inflation being felt so hard in everyday life, it’s difficult not to freak out over what lies ahead for your investments. But, some think a recession might not be all that bad for small b...
KNOW WHEN TO HOLD ‘EM--KNOW WHEN TO FOLD ‘EM
Tuesday, June 14
Yes, the financial markets look pretty rough as I write this, on top of a pretty rough end of last week. Inflation continues to wreak havoc … and the smarty-pants quants in Wall Street don’t seem to have confidence that the government or the Fed are making the right moves. In an encouraging reco...