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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
Several different deadlines run at once in any dispute, set by different people, and the earliest one is usually the one nobody mentions.
Continue reading The clock on a dispute starts before you know you have one. Deadlines that matter
The decision is usually made weeks before the conversation happens. What separates a clean parting from a lasting problem is what is prepared beforehand.
Continue reading Six things to have ready before you let somebody go, and one to skip entirely
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
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