The IRS requires adherence to very specific rules for family employment, and failure to abide by those rules can be costly. On the theoretical side, there is no ...

Living the American Dream has long been thought to mean owning your own home. I understand that sentiment as well as anyone, having been a homeowner for five de ...

At this juncture, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” budget proposal supported by the current Administration is in limbo. Following an original Trump Administrati ...

Face it, most Americans are just plain nice people. We are a considerate and generous population. America is also a wealthy country, blessed with natural resour ...

Living and working in Florida is, in many ways, its own reward. Everyone knows that we have no State Income Tax, but our state extracts operating income from re ...

“We love paying taxes”, said no one ever. “The price of living in a free society,” say many. However, some taxes are worse than others, and one largely ...

Tinkering with the U.S. Tax Code is seemingly a hobby for elected officials in Washington, D.C. In 2017, the newly minted Trump (45) Administration was determin ...

Americans are very generous, every year giving away more than Half a Trillion Dollars (that is only individual giving, and does not include corporations, founda ...

Wishing and hoping won’t make it come true, whatever “it” may be. Compounding clichés, I’ll also stipulate that if something sounds too good to be true ...

Estate Planning sounds like a fancy term for wealthy people making expensive plans. While the term does include making complex arrangements for wealth preservat ...

With April 15th (Tax Filing Day) in the rear-view mirror, I can understand anyone who doesn’t care to even think about taxes for a while. However, the nascent ...

December 6, 2024, started like every other day of the past 12 years or so, with our yellow lab, “Lil’ Bit,” (a true Southerner), watching me make coffee a ...