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Using Mint.com to file your taxes

Mint.com is a product by intuit. It is extremely quick and easy to use. The trick is to stay consistent with categorizing your expenses. If you are an accountant and need to put together a schedule C or an S Corp return using Mint.com data, export the data into CSV....

Income Statements for Breaking Ground

For applicants that want to qualify for buildings that have an income bracket, quite a lot of financial materials are necessary to pass through the process if the individual applying is a sole-member LLC (sole proprietorship) or otherwise runs a small business. The...

I don’t know my basis in my S corp

% Percentage of Clients that Don't Know Their Basis It seems that nobody knows their basis in their S Corp. This is a common phenomenon that I have ran into while in private practice. Basis is talked about and “beaten like a dead horse” throughout...

Strategy for passing California PETH exam

First off, let me point out that this is just a study strategy and, although the PETH exam is known to be an “open book exam” throughout the internet blogging universe, I have not seen authoritative guidance from the state designating it as such. For this...

Tax Returns for Expats with Dependents

I have had a similar situation occur several times in my private practice where an individual is a U.S. Citizen, but his spouse and children are not. Naturally, the client will want to claim these dependents on his return. However, in order for the dependents to be...