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A claim is not free even when it is paid. The question is whether the payment exceeds what filing costs you across the next several renewals.
Continue reading Should you file this claim? The arithmetic that decides it before you call
These three come up in nearly every conversation about business expenses, and the general answer to all of them is no, with narrow and specific exceptions.
Continue reading Commuting, lunch, and work clothes. The three costs people assume are deductible
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
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
Holiday coverage is a small scheduling problem and an enormous fairness problem. Staff read it as a statement about how the place is run.
Continue reading How you handle the December schedule decides who is still there in March
The two year route saves real money right up until credits fail to carry across. The savings and the risk both sit in the same paperwork.
Continue reading Two years at community college, then transfer. Where the credits go missing