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All People Are Tax People by James Pantzis
… except, well … when they aren’t. Or when they have a question. Or when they have to deal directly with the IRS (yikes). Or when they have any kind of complications in their return. Or … I could go on, but you get the point. The Super Bowl is behind us (congrats KC...
Do Not Procrastinate Tax Filling In 2020 by James Pantzis
Have you met with us yet? The Super Bowl and the Oscars are over. The IRS has been accepting electronically filed returns for a couple weeks now. Which means, well … it’s about to get real. We are getting busy around here at Team J.D. PANTZIS, C.P.A., P.C.. Which is...
Read This Before Trusting Your Tax Filing To A Brooklyn Tax Professional
Listen, I know how hard it is to move from one tax professional to another. Which is why I would like to take a minute here to address YOU, if you are someone who hasn’t yet made the decision to use our services. After all, we’ve helped many Brooklyn taxpayers “make...
Career Planning Advice From A Brooklyn Business Owner
Like me, you’ve probably heard: “Do what you love, and the money will follow!” Hogwash. Personally, I love lying on the beach, but unless I start looking like a supermodel, there’s not much chance of me getting paid for it. What we do get paid for is working like...
James’s Top 5 Healthy Financial Habits
Yep, here we are in March, and that means that it’s GO TIME for taxes. If it takes you a couple weeks to pull things together, and get organized … well, now is a very good time to start the process. We’re here for you with any questions: (718) 858-9864 But don’t panic...
James Pantzis’ Guidelines for Setting Financial Goals You Can Keep
Just like last week, this week straddles the holidays, and so regular routines are still a little choppy, probably, for you. And here at Team J.D. PANTZIS, C.P.A., P.C., we’re working HARD on end-of-year moves for various Brooklyn clients, as I write this, knowing...
James Pantzis’ 2019 Tax Documents List
The new decade is finally in full swing. With big holidays the last couple weeks, you might be like me — this week is when the real work begins. The work of doing something NOW to start in on those goals for the year. As I recently wrote: it’s not about the goals …...
James Pantzis’ Annual Holiday Prayer
Congress has been busy. They’re home for the holidays, but before they left, they passed a flurry of bills that you might be interested in. Oh, and yes … the House impeached the President. There is also that. I make no comment about that, but I DID want you to see...
Happy Thanksgiving 2019 from J.D. PANTZIS, C.P.A., P.C. to your family
Imagine … You are ripped from your childhood home while young and trafficked across the ocean to a country where you don’t speak the language. You are sold to practitioners of a religion that you don’t understand, and there is no apparent possibility of return....
How Year-End Giving Changes You by James Pantzis
We’re almost done with 2019, cue the fireworks. It’s been a tough year for many (including some of our clients), and you might be eagerly looking forward to that calendar change. Shoot, we’re about to set forth into an entirely new DECADE. It’s as good a time as any...
A Trusted Brooklyn Professional’s Thoughts For Your 2019 Taxes
November is a wonderful start for holiday season with several traditions to match: pumpkin-spiced everything, no-shave November (apologies to those spouses affected), watching football and of course … Thanksgiving. Sorry to poke my accountant’s green shades into all...
How Brooklyn Taxpayers Can Avoid Fake Charities
Is the holiday season indeed “the most wonderful time of the year”? One could make a strong argument. However, for every gift we receive there are 10 or so emails asking us to give to a cause. Whether online or via snail mail, charitable organizations capitalize on...