Imagine … You are ripped from your childhood home while young and trafficked across the ocean to a country where you don’t speak the language. You are sold to practitioners of a religion that you don’t understand, and there is no apparent possibility of return….

I’m going to go further than I did last week and offer you some tangible things you can do NOW. And look … probably taxes aren’t the first thing on your mind now that the holiday lights are flickering. After all, it’s a happy season for every Southern…

There is this show I’ve been watching on Netflix called Heir Hunters, and it chronicles 30 research companies in the UK who race to locate surviving heirs when someone dies without a will. The research companies get a commission if they can locate the heirs….

When the IRS is breathing down your neck, it may feel like you have no choice but to just roll over and take whatever they dish out. This is something we’ve heard from Southern California taxpayers over the years. But here’s the thing… You actually have an extensive…

Floating under the radar during so much NOISE the past couple weeks … the CDC announced a halt to evictions for renters, and that starts THIS WEEK. I have some guidance today for you about what that means (and what it doesn’t), but a couple other things…

So, this is flying under the radar in the ending of 2020 … an IRS official just publicly stated that they are massively ramping up audits next year. It was at an event for the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Professional Accounts), and it happened…

As the old joke goes, the only two guarantees in life are death and taxes. In these updates, I obviously spend a lot of time talking about taxes. And these past 12 months, no matter how things have landed for those of you in or near Southern California … the…

Click on the news right now and you’ll see: floods, storms, fires consuming whole states. And that’s not even taking into account the everyday crime from thieves or vandals that usually dominates the news. Seeing and hearing all of that, it’s easy to look around your…

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…

Flipping through mail shouldn’t deliver anxiety — only coupons and Amazon packages. But when you come across an envelope from the IRS, a little panic is perfectly understandable. No matter the contents of that envelope, know you have a right, as a citizen…