Before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) AKA Obamacare, were your insurance premiums rising? The answer is probably yes. After PPACA passed in 2010 did your insurance premiums keep rising? Again the answer is yes. One thing that most people do not understand it that PPACA AKA Obamacare [...] Read more »
Top 10 IRS Audit Triggers
The IRS does not just randomly select people for an audit. Instead they tend to look for things that seem unusual to them. However, just because an auditor contacts you, does not mean that you have done something wrong on your tax return. You just need to be aware the [...] Read more »
Nine things you should know about sales tax and internet sales
So you have put up your bright and shiny new website and made your first sale, or you are creating your first Paypal button, and the question comes up, “Do I need to collect sales tax on that sale?” In general, most people know they need to collect sales tax [...] Read more »
Back from the Brink? Does ATRA Save Us From Tax-maggedon & Fiscal Cliff?
Unless you avoid the news and if you do, I can’t say a blame you, you probably heard the term Tax-maggedon or the Fiscal Cliff bandied about by the news clones for several months of 2012. Even as disaster loomed the parties in the lame duck congress and the president [...] Read more »
Top 10 Signs You Have a Fishy Tax Preparer
When you sign your tax return, you are taking personal responsibility for the information on it. If something is wrong with that information, the IRS will be coming after YOU. Here are 10 signs you have a bad tax preparer. Your tax preparer has complaints registered against them. Your [...] Read more »