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Back to Basics

I believe now is the time for most entrepreneurs to go back to basics with their businesses.  Whether you had a record breaking year or gains or losses, I think now is the time to review who you are and what you are doing and for whom. Are you using the best business...

2016 IRS Mileage rates

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2016, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be: 54 cents per mile for business miles driven, down from 57.5 cents for 2015 19 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes, down from 23...

Delisted penny stock

I wrote before on how I purchased a stock from a company I had worked at long ago.  They had kept pushing me to buy the stock when I was there. I hated the job, most of the people I worked with and for.  There was no way I was going to buy into the business.  I saw it...

Rental property

I have been looking into rental properties on and off for over a decade.  I remember looking at the top of the market, thinking that the properties were so overpriced I would never ever make any money off of them. I am thrilled that were did not buy any of them....

BOA

I was meeting with a reporter a few weeks ago and he was surprised when I mentioned that I strongly recommend having a Board of Advisors for their businesses. I believe that no small business owner should have to make decisions in a vacuum.  The roundtableing of ideas...

Toll booths

I was recently meeting with a client and we were discussing their yearend tax planning strategy.  They have come into some money and we were attempting to calculate their tax liability. As we progressed in the discussion I was asking them about their asset...

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