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…

Summer is flying by. Do you feel that way? It’s an exciting season with cookouts, vacations and extracurricular activities (my thoughts and sympathies for Southern California parents with multiple kids playing multiple sports among 100 other things). Before you…

I hope you’re hanging in there. We’re LOCKED in, helping our Southern California clients, and I have a bunch of things to share with you today, based on recent activity. I will say that, between helping clients, and the astonishing rapidity of change,…

Have you met with us yet? The Super Bowl and the Oscars are over. The IRS has been accepting electronically filed returns for a couple weeks now. Which means, well … it’s about to get real. We are getting busy around here at Team Barnes Accountancy…

In the vast majority of cases, people who have tax debt will start to pay attention to the series of letters the IRS sends them as they become increasingly more threatening. So, being proactive and addressing the problem head-on is always the best approach. But what…

Summer is nearing an end, but this has been no ordinary summer. Everywhere, parents are scrambling in the most unusual “back to school” season in memory. Fall sports are in limbo, and others (MLB, NHL, NBA) are operating in a weird Twilight Zone mode….

So, you got that stimulus check (or, as the government wants to call it, your “Economic Stimulus Payment”)… What next for Southern California families and individuals? Please use these funds wisely. If I could sum up my advice for next steps, it…

Tax Pro World is abuzz about the increase of the Social Security wage base standard. Well, I should clarify — most of Tax Pro World is taking naps this week and not really thinking much about taxes whatsoever, ha! After all, that was one of the most epically…

Every year, the IRS releases their list of what they call “the dirty dozen”. (Apparently, the marketing gurus who work at the IRS think that if they give it a catchy name, maybe even a pop-culturey one, the people will pay more attention.) But aside from…

For many Southern California small business owners, and families, it can seem that the government has simply been throwing money around and not paying attention to what is done with it, or collecting what is due. After all, there is a backlog of notices that the IRS…