What To Take Care Of With Your Taxes?
Tuesday, February 23
We’re keeping an eye on the Congressional conversation around the "American Rescue Plan" (or Stimulus Round 3) presented by Biden. Lots of political "smoke" surrounding this, but as of this writing, no fire. In general, I prefer to keep focused on what actually *is* before dealing in speculations...
Handling Customers In Stressful Times
Thursday, February 18
I am simultaneously eager while also being slightly horrified that tax season has officially begun. Horrified, simply because the IRS has been significantly behind the 8-ball this year, and I still can't believe that we're already halfway through February 2021. EAGER ... well, because there are s...
Tax Time Is Here...Time For Estate Planning
Thursday, February 18
On Friday, the IRS began accepting tax returns and people like me all around the country started buckling up for what is already quite a ride. With new PPP loans for small business owners, credits aplenty in all of the variety of stimulus bills, DELAYS from the IRS, fraudulent unemployment claim...
The REAL Numbers To Be Watching
Monday, February 08
During the first Super Bowl that Tom Brady won (with the Patriots), these were some of the companies who advertised (hat tip to Jon Erlichman of Bloomberg): AOL Blockbuster Radio Shack Circuit City CompUSA Sears HotJobs Yahoo VoiceStream Wireless Gateway Computers The year was 2002, and life look...
A Back Log At The IRS
Tuesday, February 02
For many small business owners, and families, it can seem that the government has simply been throwing money around and not paying attention to what is done with it or collecting what is due. After all, there is a backlog of notices that the IRS is STILL sending out, which delayed the beginning o...
A Checklist For Tax Prep
Tuesday, February 02
So, last week I ran through the (rather incredible) selection of NEW and/or extended tax credits available for business owners. That's just the tip of the iceberg though. But this is the great thing about working with business, your tax pro can get so creative and make a MASSIVE impact for your b...