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With all of the proposed changes to the income tax code in 2018, the one that will affect the most individuals will be the doubling of the standard deduction to …

Keep Your Income Tax Liability as Low as Legally Possible; “After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.” Mark Cuban. …

Rule Number Three to Starting a Business; Have a plan. Have a company objective. Have operating procedures in place. Treat yourself like a real business from the very beginning. You …

Rule Number Two. Never, ever, ever, ever, no way, no how take on a business partner. Partnerships have a lower record of success than even the sole proprietor. Go ahead, …

Rule Number One To Starting Your Own Business; Keep your plan realistic. Take whatever your expectations are for success the first few years and cut them in half. Just for …

I hereby declare in a public forum that I want the Matt Maher song “Hold Us Together” played at my funeral. There, who says you need to pay for an …

Remember that old Bill Murray movie “Ground Hog Day”? I know, stupid question. It is only on cable 89 times a week, especially around the actual day (holiday?), and is …

Keep in mind that being self-employed and/or owing your own business is a hard thing. Things inevitably are not going to go exactly as planned. My advice to new business …

One of the greatest movies ever, and this is not open for discussion, is Cool Hand Luke. Yes, a reference from a movie that opened in 1967 horribly dates me, …

At my final corporate job they had something they called “summer hours”. The idea was that in the summer months, if you worked extra during the week and got everything …