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Making Children Less Costly For Tracy Families With Kids Through The Child Tax Credit
To be clear, children are costly in the best way possible.Once the dust settles from changing diapers, sweeping floors, slapping bandaids on booboos, driving to sports practice, attending back-to-school meetings, saving for college, and buying countless goldfish...
Mohammed Amir Ghani’s Three Building Blocks To Healthy Personal Finances
It's understandable if things might feel a little bit ... shaky right now for you. If you pay attention to the media, you are seeing trade wars with China, uncertain stock markets, apocalyptic elections rumbling in the future, even the Apple juggernaut is seeing its...
College Is Expensive But Tracy Families Can Save Big Through These Tax Breaks
What, you think I'm on vacation?Yes, the tax deadline has passed. But we're still available, and handling post-deadline matters for Tracy clients.But moving along to today's subject: figuring out how to pay for college tuition. Things are different from the days when...
Where Do Our Tax Dollars Go? Mohammed Amir Ghani Breaks It Down
Before I get to your tax dollars, and where they went, I have a couple thoughts for you.We're still settling down from the flurry of last week and the passing of the April 15th deadline. There were MANY more procrastinators this year than in years past, in my opinion...
A Thank You To Our Tracy Clients For A Successful 2019 Tax Season
This has been one of the wildest tax seasons in recent memory. I saw a note from the IRS last Friday (the 12th) that as of that day, 50 million taxpayers had yet to file. LOTS of extensions happened out there, as all of the tax law changes caused a bunch of...
An Under-Utilized Tax Break For Tracy Taxpayers: Summer Day Camp
Okay, that's a joke. We're so busy with our client work, we can't really enjoy the college basketball or the new baseball season, but at least we still have April Fools.And yes, I know that day has already passed. More coffee please.But speaking of things getting past...
Mohammed Amir Ghani’s Under-Utilized Pet Tax Deductions
Apparently, there are some politics things happening these days.But even more apparently, the tax deadline is three weeks away.Politics? As the young people say, ain't nobody got time for that.But you know what we DO have time for? Saving you a boatload on your taxes,...
How Tracy Taxpayers Can Support The Alabama Disaster Relief Effort
The college hoops brackets are set, and the madness begins. And, per the American Gaming Association, 47 million of us will be wagering $8.5 BILLION on this event.Which, of course, means that my mind immediately goes here.You see, we've already been knee-deep in our...
Spending Money From Tax Refunds Wisely By Mohammed Amir Ghani
Just about one month left before the tax deadline. As the parents say, the days are long, but the months are fast.And as we tax pros say, the days are long, and the days are long.But that's simply because we've been getting to do some meaty, fun tax preparation work...
