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Avoiding AMT
Avoiding AMT More and more taxpayers are finding a hidden tax on their individual tax returns. The alternative minimum tax (AMT) attempts to ensure that high income individuals who benefit from the tax advantages of certain deductions and exemptions will pay at least a minimum amount of tax. This tax was originally designed to keep…
How to Avoid Some of the Most Common Leadership Mistakes
How to Avoid Some of the Most Common Leadership Mistakes Congratulations, you’re a leader. That’s a commendable accomplishment. So how are your leadership skills coming along? Are you helping your team members work at their highest levels and achieve their greatest success? Are you helping your company experience growth and achieve its goals? As a…
Top Investing Tips for Beginners
Top Investing Tips for Beginners Are you looking to start investing? If so you probably have a lot of questions. And you’re probably looking for some good investing tips. Investing in the stock market can be very intimidating. What stocks should I choose? How much should I invest in each company? Should I focus on…
Which Factors Have the Greatest Effect on Your Wealth?
Which Factors Have the Greatest Effect on Your Wealth? Who doesn’t want to be wealthy? They say money doesn’t buy happiness but it sure doesn’t hurt. However, the gap between wanting to be wealthy and actually becoming wealthy is quite vast for most people. But why is that? Why are so many people unsuccessful at…
Are You An Accounting Nerd?
Are You An Accounting Nerd? By William Brighenti There are varying degrees of accounting nerdiness. Some accounting nerds live normal lives, marry and, according to Kinsley, even propagate. Some never marry since everyone they ever dated lapsed into comas, never to be heard from again. Others are complete introverts and should never have left the…
Why not a CPA as President?
Why not a CPA as President? By William Brighenti With the economy the most central issue, why not elect a CPA as President? A recent poll showed that 47% of our fellow citizens thought that the economy was the central issue of our country. So we elect lawyers to manage and direct our economy? Why…
Business Income insurance
Business Income insurance Business Income Insurance – Often Misunderstood; Things to Think About By R. Scott Wolf Business Income Insurance is probably one of the least understood components of an insurance program, yet it is probably one of the most important. It is akin to what disability insurance does for us personally should we become…
Business Sales Tax
Business Sales Tax Sale of a Business – Sales Tax Impact Buying and selling a business can be structured to be tax-free from the standpoint of federal income taxes through the merger and other reorganization provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. However, a tax-free transaction from a federal standpoint may not be tax-free for State…