Tax Specialist Advice

When a person owns a company of their own, most times they will have their own accounting personnel do the income taxes for the company.
Most often when people use accounting for income taxes, it is a way for them to be sure that their taxes are being done securely as well as done properly. [...]

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In a recent email news post I made the distinction that the Haiti disaster is now a qualified disaster says the IRS (http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=218615,00.html).
And I mentioned in that email, there were rumors that said people would be able to take a deduction for contributions to Haiti on this year’s (2009) tax return - rather [...]

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A few days ago in a email news post I made reference to the fact that the natural disaster that occurred in Haiti is currently a qualified disaster says the IRS (http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=218615,00.html).
I said in the email that there are rumors that said people are able to make a deduction for contributions to [...]

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
1861 - After Lincoln was elected, southerners walk out of Congress and create the Confederacy with a new constitution to curtail the power of their newly formed country to tax.
1862 - The first US income [...]

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
From 1868 to 1913, almost ninety percent of the national government’s income was gotten from taxes on whiskey and tobacco. During the Civil War the government instituted a short income tax, but it was not until [...]

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
So, what went wrong with taxes in the US?
US tax makers have been collecting what they have sown for a long time. Our honor system has been replaced by a system in which every tax payer [...]

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
“Slavery - the one cause of the Civil War.” - John Stuart Mill, 1862
Can there be a doubtful thoughts concerning this topic? Certainly the American Civil War was about slavery… was it not? Well actually, one [...]

Many times when you hear people talking about income taxes, those that live around Minnesota say that the MN income taxes are high. Are the MN income taxes really that high to any other state?
Many times when people hear of other states income taxes, they right away assume that the income taxes are high [...]

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Ah…. now we have an event in history obviously about abusive taxes. Was the Boston Tea Party a protest against the British tax on tea, as we were all taught? No, not at all. The colonies [...]

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
1861 - After Lincoln was elected, southerners walk out on Congress and create the Confederate States of America with a new constitution to curtail the power of their new government to tax.
1862 - The beginning [...]