Your life probably doesn’t revolve around taxes the way mine does. I’ll bet you spend time keeping up with friends and family, enjoying your hobbies, and taking trips—all without thinking about taxes. No matter how full and wonderful your life is, though, taxes still manage to intrude. And if you simply ignore them, they will [...]
Normally, tax-filing season goes relatively smoothly for me, with the same clients procrastinating and missing the same items, year after year. But 2013 was quite different: I had some last-minute filers inform me right before the deadline that they had abandoned or sold several properties in 2012. I had less than two weeks to get adequate [...]
This article was written by guest blogger Eva Rosenberg. Whether you understand enough about tax law to prepare your own tax return or you called in a pro to file your taxes, you probably believe your tax return was correct. But what if your refund is much less than you expected it to be? Why [...]
You think you made a mistake? Let me tell you about the time I made a $90,000 error. It was very embarrassing. This $90,000 was the very first entry I had made into the tax software for the client. When the return was finalized after two months of work, the $90,000 had disappeared. It turned [...]
