3 Steps to Create Your Tax Strategy

A tax strategy is more than just wishing you could pay fewer taxes. A tax strategy ensures you pay the least amount of tax allowable by law, regardless of your business or investment situation. I'm often asked what is involved in creating a tax strategy. When it comes...

Year-End Checklist for Rental Real Estate

Real estate is one of my absolute favorite areas in the tax law because there is so much flexibility in how to do things to legally maximize the tax benefits available. Real estate is also one of the most complex areas of the tax law. This makes it easy to overlook...

The Hidden Tax: Inflation

I refer to inflation as a hidden tax because it can dramatically increase a person's taxes without that person ever realizing just how much more in taxes they are paying because of inflation. Inflation is the increase in price of goods and services over time. I was...

Increase Your Knowledge, Decrease Your Risk

I'm big on education. With education, your knowledge increases and your risk decreases. Taxes are a great example of this. As a person's knowledge about taxes increases, their risk of overpaying their tax decreases as does the risk of incurring penalties and interest....