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A document missing at the filing deadline has three possible responses, and the one most people choose is usually the most expensive of the three.
Continue reading Extension, Rush, or Amend Later: Three Answers to a Form That Has Not Arrived
Nobody is withholding anything on your behalf anymore, and the bill arrives on a schedule that has nothing to do with the way the money came in.
Continue reading First Year Working for Yourself? Set the Tax Aside Before You Spend the Money
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
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