Presidential election campaign brings up tax rates A picture of the 1945 Detroit Tigers baseball team sits in my office. They were the World Series champions that year. I know they only had to beat the Chicago Cubs, but beat them they did. Losing must have hard on the Cubs that year because they haven’t [...]
IRS needs bigger budget? I might have made a slight mistake last week in putting in writing that I thought we were becoming weather-wise close to Indiana. Evidently, the weather gods were just waiting for me to write that article, because it has been winter since that time. However, some people are happy with the [...]
Tax season is here, winter is not Winter had to get here sooner or later. Usually, we get some of it, snow at least, during the deer season, but it didn’t happen this year. For the gun hunters, that lack of snow helped to make it a bit of a rough season. I think the Michigan [...]
Review of tax changes It may seem like I am beating this topic to death, but since it is now 2012, I think it is important to review one more time all of the Michigan tax changes that took place on January 1, 2012. I have been preparing Michigan tax returns since 1978 and there [...]
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 [...]
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