Tax Preparation

The best way to get your tax refund is to choose direct deposit.  Here are five good reasons to join the 84 million taxpayers who chose direct deposit last year.

If you’re like most taxpayers, you find yourself with an ominous stack of “homework” around TAX TIME!  Pulling together the records for your tax appointment is never easy, but the effort usually [...]

  The ACA open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) mandate is November 15 through February 15.  If you don’t have health insurance coverage for 2015, you may be [...]

Filling out your W4 form at work so that your employer knows how much money, if any, to deduct from your paycheck seems like it should be fairly simple, but it certainly is not.

 Many companies, as an incentive to employees to help grow the companies’ market value, will offer stock options to key employees.  The type of option offered can make a huge difference in your [...]

It’s always a good idea to prepare early to file your federal income tax return.  Certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act – also known as the Health Care Law – will affect your federal [...]

Members of the U.S. Armed Forces reserve component often have questions about the tax deductibility of expenses they incur as part of their service in a reserve unit.  Here are some tax facts for [...]

On December 19, the President signed tax extenders, penalties and the ABLE Act Bill — the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 (HR 5771), which extends most of the expiring provisions [...]

Individuals can deduct certain expenses as miscellaneous itemized deductions that they incur in the course of their employment. Generally, qualified business expenses are un-reimbursed expenses [...]

Obamacare – or, more officially, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – is going to affect just about every taxpayer in one way or another — insurance mandate, along with its health insurance [...]