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Business Tax Provisions of the FCAA

Jan 01 2020

As a year-end holiday gift, Congress included a number of individual and business-friendly tax provisions in its year-end spending package that was signed into law by President Trump on December 20, 2019. The “Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020” (oddly considered a 2020 Act) brought back to life many deductions and credits that had expired at the end of 2017, as well as a few others that had either expired at the end of 2018 or were scheduled to expire at the end of 2019.

In addition, substantial changes were made to retirement-related tax provisions, some of which may benefit your …

Don’t Let Holiday Spending Guilt Trip You Up

Dec 31 2019

Are you feeling a little remorse about the money you spent over the holidays? There is an online meme where a parent jokes about taking all of the holiday presents back because the children are behaving. Isn’t that how it is with the things we buy sometimes? They don’t produce the expected result or function quite as we would like and we want to go back in time. We were full of hope when we bought these things and it is only later that the regret sets in. We like to believe that the new year brings a fresh start… Read More

Amy’s Will: Estate Planning in Little Women

Dec 24 2019

A new movie version of the classic novel Little Women will be in theaters during the holiday season. The book’s author, Louisa May Alcott, wrote a book about young women that was suitable enough to sell but also included some of her own unconventional ideas in the text however she could and offered various illustrations of womanhood. She shows how wealth and financial planning can alter a woman’s life for the better.

Aunt March is not the woman who is most admired by the sisters in the book, she is one who influenced them and acted in ways that …

Investing Time in Financial Planning Pays Off

Dec 17 2019

The Motley Fool asked readers “How Much Time Does the Average American Spend on Personal Finance?” Rather than look at the actual time in minutes or hours, we can say that the answer for many people is: not enough. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and from Northwestern Mutual’s 2019 Planning & Progress Study, The Motley Fool found that the desire to be financially stable is there but it is not easy to take action to reach out financial goals.

“When it comes to finances, people were almost 30 times more likely to spend time watching TV …

Study Finds Divorced Women Gain Financial Confidence with Time

Dec 03 2019

The end of a marriage does not have to mean the end of financial stability: in fact, for some women it is just the opposite. Some women find that having no choice but to take control of their own financial planning gives them a confidence they may have not had before.

Kiplinger.com published “Financial Confidence in Divorced Women is on the Rise,” and included the following insight:

“While 57% of women say that divorce was a wake-up call for them from a financial standpoint, the good news is that things do get better. According to the recent Allianz …

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