Brian’s Tax Musings

What were the biggest tax stories of 2011?  Here is an article in Smart Money written by Bill Bischoff detailing some of the major happenings (and not happenings) of the year.  Read the article below:http://www.smartmoney.com/taxes/tax-policy/biggest-tax-stories-of-2011-1324420327513/WIth two days left in the year, anything can happen (and usually does!)                     You can count on us to count for you!

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Brian’s Tax Musings

What do you want to know about taxes?  Turbo Tax has compiled a list of the 11 most popular tax questions this year.  The questions are in this article written by The Wall Street Journal, which then gave the IRS form or publication that gives the answer.  Read the article here:http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/2011/12/20/the-most-popular-taxpayer-questions/If by chance you don’t want to look an answer up yourself or have another question, you can always call me at 818-317-6035 or email me at bstonercpa@sbcglobal.net and I will either have the answer or get it for you.You can count on us to count for you! 

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Brian’s Tax Musings

Everyone is talking about how broke social security is.  But look at medicare – it is projected to run out of money much sooner than social security.  See this article from Smart Money about it:http://www.smartmoney.com/retirement/planning/10-things-medicare-wont-tell-you-1324333528533/That just means the government (us if you remember) will subsidize medicare as well as social security, so it will all work out in the end (we will just be broke – oh well, can a government file for bankruptcy?)      You can count on us to count for you!

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