More financial fraud: this article in CNN Money by Blake Ellis discusses Mobile paymaster Jumio and a new report called “The Fraudster’s Playbook” where real con artists discuss common ways to steal identities: http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/26/pf/identity-theft/index.html So remember to be on your guard and be sure that your secure password to your financial and other information online is not”password” or “12345678″ (2 of the top ten passwords used – aahhhh!) Do you keep your car keys taped to the hood of your car too? For financial, accounting and tax musings, You can count on us to count for you! Email: bstonercpa@sbcglobal.net Phone: 818-317-6035 Website: www.briantstonercpa.com Has been Featured On https://twitter.com/bstonercpa
Financial Musings of a Burbank CPA: Four Ways To Avoid Charity Scams
This is the time of year everyone feels like giving. So when you open your wallets to give to your favorite charity (and maybe some new ones that interest you), is also the time to be careful. Many scam artists are out there looking for your money. The advice in this article in credit.com published in Yahoo Finance and written by Adam Levin gives you a to do list when you start getting the calls and emails: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/4-ways-avoid-charity-scams-113051290.html Remember that for every giver there is a taker; make sure the takers are legitimate charities that will be giving back to the causes you favor, not a con artist that will take and then give to him or herself! For financial, accounting and tax musings, You can count on us to count for you! Email: bstonercpa@sbcglobal.net Phone: 818-317-6035 Website: www.briantstonercpa.com Has been Featured On https://twitter.com/bstonercpa
Tax Musings of a Burbank CPA: Okay, I Don’t Have Room For All My Tax Receipts – What Now?
So you have been listening to me and have actually been doing a good job keeping the five to seven years of tax receipts I have recommended. Congratulations! Now you have a different problem – the storage problem! Those receipts take up a lot of space. Short of renting public storage, you just don’t have room for them. Now what? Well, do you have a computer? Do you have a printer that can scan pdfs or software that can create it? If not, it is time to think about getting them! Taking all these documents and storing them on the computer in pdf format is the best way to save all the data without the storage problems. If you need to prove a deduction to the IRS or the state, you just have to find the right document, print it up and give it to the authorities. Just remember a couple of points; setting up a file system on the computer and making backups so if the computer crashes you can recover the data. 1. If you have a PC and use Windows, it is relatively easy to set up a folder system to keep your various deduction and income [...]