What is financial planning? Is it a piece of paper that tells you you will need enormous amounts of money at a certain point in your life? A chart or a graph depicting whether your “plan” can be successful? When you google “What is financial planning,” these are the results. The CFP Board “A financial…
Happy New Year! We hope the final weeks of 2022 were full of rest and joy for you. It was, and this is atheme of the 2020s, quite the year. A major global superpower brutally invaded a neighboring country, Covid-19 was a continued presence, inflation spiked to 9%, stock and bond markets experienced broad declines,…
The April surprise for most property owners in North Texas this year was not their IRS bill it was the Annual Appraisal Notice. This property tax increase impacts all of us. It is time for you to learn how to do the “New Texas Two-Step – File and Protest” THE DEADLINE IS MAY 16, 2022…
“Can I deduct that?” is the most asked question from our new and current business tax clients at Tannery Company. Our answer is usually yes and lots more. I posed the question in the subject line of, “Does your CPA make you money?” If the answer is not yes, you should fire your CPA. Does…
Raising children is expensive. How expensive is it in Texas? In Texas, parents paid $777 a month or $9,324 annually, for infant care and $589 a month, or $7,062 a year, for childcare, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Compare that to in-state tuition for a four-year public college, and you will find that it…
Geopolitical events evoke emotions and irrational behavior in all of us. Whether you are young or old, the idea of another country attacking another country sucks. The obvious questions arise: “What are they thinking” and “Whose idea is this” War has existed since the beginning of time and, unfortunately, will continue. The new ongoing war…