by Leif Jensen | Oct 21, 2020 | Taxes |
Have you been working from home since your employer’s office closed? If so, you do not get to claim the home office deduction, you are an employee. Prior to 2018, certain employees could deduct the cost of home office expenses as unreimbursed employee costs included...
by Leif Jensen | Oct 20, 2020 | Rant |
IRS must soon start sending out economic impact payments to prisoners, according to a district court orders after two prisoners filed suit, claiming that the agency was wrongly withholding stimulus checks from them. Nothing in the CARES Act specifically prohibits the...
by Leif Jensen | Oct 19, 2020 | Estate Planning |
Here is the way to assist your kids or grandkids with their college education: Pay tuition directly to the school. The payment is nontaxable to the student, it does not count against the $15,000 annual gift tax exclusion, and it reduces your estate. The same can be...
by Leif Jensen | Oct 14, 2020 | Rant |
Daylight Saving Time ends in 2020 at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, marking the time when clocks “fall back” and we gain an extra hour of sleep. Daylight Saving Time, often incorrectly referred to in the plural as Daylight Savings Time, started in 2020 on Sunday, March 8....
by Leif Jensen | Oct 13, 2020 | Rant |
I watched the 1st Presidential debate for about 5 minutes, during that time I was embarrassed by both candidates behavior. Neither looked presidential, they looked and acted like preschoolers. While we essentially have only two political parties according to the...
