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A document that has not arrived by the filing deadline has three possible answers, and the one most people pick is usually the most expensive of the three.
Continue reading Extension, rush the deadline, or amend later. Three ways to handle a missing form
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
The offer refused in month two is often better than the outcome reached in month fourteen, once you count what the intervening year actually took out of you.
Continue reading Most people settle a dispute too late, and the reason is rarely the money
A backup nobody has ever restored from is not a backup. It is a belief, and the difference only becomes visible on the worst possible day.
Continue reading The drive was backing up for two years. Nothing on it could be restored
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