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J.D. Pantzis’s Seven Negative Results And Six Painful Consequences For Unfiled Tax Returns
The IRS just began receiving tax returns this week, and Tax Preparers all over the nation are cranking and grooving along, finding all kinds of savings on behalf of clients ... as well as chomping at the bit to help them on THIS year's taxes. The buzz around the tax...
How To Get Out of Credit Card Debt Fast in Brooklyn, NY: 6 Key Steps
Often, when you're faced with IRS debt, there are other nasty little financial problems out there that can tend to crop up. I have to tell you though, as I sat down to write this strategy note, it made me think about some Brooklyn, NY clients that I've walked with...
Facts About IRS Audits
With all of the chaos out there right now, the division and shouting, it's helpful to try to tune out the shouting and focus on what is actually in our sphere of productivity. One way that the IRS has decided it can be more productive is by outsourcing their...
J.D. Pantzis, CPA Answers: Can You Be Fired Because of A Wage Levy?
We're almost at the end of September, which is bewildering -- where did summer go? Pumpkin lattes are everywhere, the weather is turning ... and life is really starting to accelerate. But we do know something that can stop anyone in their tracks on an accelerating...
Training Your Heart For Good Financial Stewardship In Brooklyn, NY
Working with my Brooklyn, NY clients' finances over the years has given me a bit of a crash course in human behavior. Often, I'm floored by the generosity I see displayed by many clients -- even those without significant means. Other times ... well, I think that we...
Four Simple Steps To Increase Productivity In Brooklyn
First of all, our hearts are with Sutherland Springs, TX. What a senseless, terrible tragedy for that community, and our nation. Words fail. +++ But as difficult as it is to “move on” from the remembrance of such things, our nation continues along with the arguments...
5 Tips on How to Become Wealthy in Brooklyn
As we continue to keep our eyes on what’s happening with the GOP tax reform bill in Washington, we are focusing on an entirely different kind of “tax reform” around here: Tax planning with our smartest Brooklyn clients. Because something that is a commonality among...
2017’s Been Hard For Our Nation, Can We Still Give Thanks in Brooklyn?
Here we are, suddenly finding ourselves in the week that we have set aside as a nation for the giving of thanks. 2017 seems to have been a difficult year for many to find glimpses of the light, to find goodness in the midst of seeming chaos and lots of bad news. But,...
Get Lower Taxes: 4 Last-Minute Tax Moves For Brooklyn Taxpayers
The first round of holiday festivities are behind us, and the nation turns its eyes to Washington DC to see if this December will be festive or glum. Well … perhaps that’s an exaggeration. Most of us don’t take our cues from DC! Either way, this season marking the end...
Pantzis’ Four Good Reasons To Give Charitably, Aside From Tax Deductions
As I write this, the Senate has passed their version of the tax reform bill, and now we wait for the final version of the bill. The process isn’t yet finished (it needs to go through the “reconciliation” process, and the President needs to sign it), but we have some...
Conventional Financial Advice May Not Always Be Best by James Pantzis
Just to give you a little snapshot of why it’s taking so long to get tax reform done (and I know — you’re surely waiting with bated breath), consider this: under certain circumstances with the proposed reform, some people would face a marginal tax rate of over 100%....
2018 Tax Reform Update And A Holiday Prayer from James
Well, we seem to have a final tax plan in place, and if everything goes according to what Capitol Hill watchers say, it should pass both the House and Senate this week, and be signed into law by President Trump. And my, oh my, are there changes. One that I should...