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Refining old, proposing new Welcome to the 2012 tax season! For tax professionals, this is a day that was on the horizon as soon as the previous tax season ended on April 15, 2011. There weren’t a lot of changes that Congress made last year. Furthermore, this is an election year so there most likely [...]
Changes that affect tax returns The passing of The Independent a few weeks ago prompted me to go back and review those initial articles I wrote for The Rockford Squire. It’s a little known trivia fact, but I wrote my first Tax Attic on October 3, 1996, replacing a business column written by Hal Babcock. Interestingly enough, [...]
Top 10 Tax Planning Strategies It’s nearing December 31. For most tax-planning strategies, December 31 is a hard deadline. I’m going to borrow from David Letterman and give you my Top 10 Action Tax Service Tax Planning Strategies. Since Herman Cain dropped out of the presidential race, I think it’s a fair bet that our [...]
Donations not tax-deductible next month A few weeks ago, The Grand Rapids Press’ Outdoor Page highlighted the Sportsmen Against Hunger (SAH) program. What a good program it is, too. Thousands of pounds of venison are processed and delivered to homeless shelters/food banks such as Mel Trotter Ministries. It starts by a hunter shooting a deer [...]
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