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All three feel like costs of earning a living, because they are, and all three are generally not deductible. One piece of reasoning explains every one of them.
Continue reading Commuting, Lunch, and Work Clothes Are the Three Costs People Assume Are Deductible
A first meeting with an accountant is a two way interview and most people treat it as an application. Six questions settle it in about twenty minutes.
Continue reading Twenty Minutes and Six Questions: How to Tell Whether a Preparer Is Right for You
A dwelling limit set when a policy was written and never revisited is the most ordinary form of under insurance, and the clause enforcing it is easy to miss.
Continue reading What the House Cost Against What Rebuilding Costs: A Kitchen Fire Found the Gap
Classification is settled by how a working relationship actually operates, not by what either side agreed to call it. Several different agencies get a vote.
Continue reading Who Decides Whether Somebody Is an Employee or a Contractor, and on What Evidence?
There is no single rulebook for state and local obligations and nobody mails one out. That is why the first notice usually arrives from a state you barely worked in.
Continue reading Federal Tax Gets the Attention While State and Local Rules Produce the Surprises
Almost nobody reads the letter properly the first time. These are the questions that follow, roughly in the sequence they occur to the person holding it.
Continue reading A Notice in a Plain Envelope: The Questions People Ask, in the Order They Arrive