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Debunking Estate Plan Myths For Surprise AZ Taxpayers
On Friday, the IRS began accepting tax returns and people like me all around the country started buckling up for what is already quite a ride.With new PPP loans for Surprise AZ small business owners, credits aplenty in all of the variety of stimulus bills, DELAYS from...
Attention All Surprise AZ Taxpayers, Tax Season Is Here
Congratulations to the Patriots -- I mean the Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- for their Super Bowl victory.Here at Tax Beacon, LLC, we don't have a lot of time to pay much attention to such doings since tax season is here. Even though the actual submission of tax returns to...
Surprise AZ Taxpayers It’s Time To Deal With Your 2020 Tax Return
We can't electronically submit tax returns to the IRS until Friday, February 12. Nobody can.But that doesn't mean we can't help you get started. In fact, we're already in process with a few clients, and more and more are contacting us every day. If you want to...
Retirement Money and Five Financial Mistakes To Avoid by Jeff Baugus
This is the time of year when we are normally opening up to file returns on behalf of Surprise AZ clients, and taking a breath of "calm before the storm".Not this year though. Not only is actual tax filing delayed until February 12, but Congress made their end-of-year...
Jeff Baugus’ Tax Checklist for Surprise AZ Taxpayers
Every year within the independent tax and accounting business community here in Surprise AZ (and on various online channels), we have a little fun laughing at the newest TurboTax or Block commercials. Last year, it was "all people are tax people". This year, they're...
Jeff Baugus’ Four Keys To Focus And Building Momentum in 2021
It seems so long ago (it was only last week) that we were cueing the fireworks and celebrating leaving 2020 in the rearview.But after all of the events of the past week, it seems wise that we might adjust to the fact that the world around us is not what it might have...
Five Key Takeaways From The Second Coronavirus Relief Bill For Surprise AZ Taxpayers
Say it with me again: it's a whole new year. 2020 is in the rearview...And 2021 is starting with some very nice treats for regular families in the clunkily-named "Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021", also known as the "Consolidated...
Jeff Baugus’ Very Last Minute Tax Moves for 2020
These weeks are disjointed, these holiday weeks. As of this writing, there are only three days left in 2020, and this week contains New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.So if you want to make ANY 2020 moves (outside of IRA things, which can be retroactively applied after...
Jeff Baugus’ Annual Holiday Prayer
This will be a different kind of note today than I normally post.Because the first thing to note is that a bona fide holiday miracle seems to have occurred: Congress agreed on another relief bill.Given this cultural climate, this might rank up there with the...