Whew! Fifty-seven minutes and counting on one phone call with one IRS collection agent. Three trips to the fax machine and one management referral later, my client will get his paycheck this Friday. Thanks to good staff effort, and good rapport, we got the job done...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” When Dickens wrote his Tale of Two Cities, he wrote of more than times in the past, but for times we even share today. My neighbors, friends and family in Tennessee learned this only too well earlier this month,...
Now that our annual date with the taxman has passed, it’s time to reflect on next steps. In that sense we should consider what has happened and is happening in taxation around us. Nothing has united American interest across the political spectrum more than the...
1. Check your records. The most common cause of missed deductions (and higher taxes) is a lack of understanding. We often don’t realize what our income and expenses are until it’s too late. Take the time after the holiday rush (but before the first of the year) to...
It has been nearly 200 years since Chief Justice John Marshall struck down a Maryland tax with the observation, “The power to tax involves the power to destroy.” Many things have changed since 1819, but that truth is not one of them. As various actors cross the...
