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 [...]
Congress is using new tactic It goes without saying that our tax system is very complicated. Our Congress helps to make that system more complicated when they pass laws that are not first and foremost tax laws. Buried within those non-tax laws, however, are tax provisions; sometimes very complicated tax provisions. The most glaring [...]
Negotiations to benefit economy Chicago is a great place to spend a weekend. Our daughter, Kim, is working on her master’s degree at DePaul University, so visiting her provides the perfect excuse to go to Chicago and take in some of the sights. On Friday night, we went to the Christkindlmarkt in downtown Chicago. The [...]
Integrity is a way of life My minister at Rockford Reformed Church, Rick Tigchon, sometimes hits a “grand slam” of a sermon. Since the baseball playoffs are in full swing, I thought I would borrow one of its terms to describe his wonderful sermon given to us this last Sunday. Since the Lions finally won [...]
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