Category Archives
13 posts filed under this category, 6 shown on this page.
The first meeting with a preparer is a two way interview and most people treat it as an application. The questions below take twenty minutes and settle it.
Continue reading Interviewing an accountant, and the six answers that tell you whether to hire them
A dwelling limit set when the policy was written and never revisited is the most common form of under-insurance, and the clause that enforces it is easy to miss.
Worker classification is decided by how the relationship actually works, not by what either party agreed to call it. Several agencies get a vote.
Continue reading Calling someone a contractor does not make them one. Who decides, and on what
Federal tax gets the attention and state and local obligations produce most of the surprises, because there is no single rulebook and nobody sends you one.
Continue reading Sales tax, city licenses, and the letter from a state you barely worked in
Almost nobody reads the letter properly the first time. The questions below are the ones that come up, roughly in the sequence they arrive.
Continue reading A letter arrived from the IRS. The questions people ask, in the order they ask them
The difference between records that make a return straightforward and records that cost a weekend is not effort. It is when the effort happens.
Continue reading Fifteen minutes on Friday keeps a shoebox from becoming an April problem