Fifteen years ago, I moved my business into a new headquarters, reorganized the company and wrote in our newsletter about my succession plans to keep Palisades Hudson going at some future time when I would no longer be present to run it.
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The direction of interest rates is notoriously difficult to predict, and with economic uncertainty rising around the world, it isn’t getting any easier.
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Court Permits Deduction For Executive MBA. Taxpayers can deduct the cost of education that maintains or improves skills required in their current professions, but not those that qualify them for a new trade or business. The Internal Revenue Service disallowed deductions claimed by Alex Kopaigora for the Executive MBA program at Brigham Young University. Kopaigora commuted on weekends to the Provo, Utah, campus from Los Angeles, where he was a hotel accounting manager before losing his job partway through the program. The IRS claimed Kopaigora’s unemployment meant he could not qualify for the deductions, but the Tax Court disagreed.
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Ben Sullivan discusses the cognitive errors that can trip up even savvy investors.
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Shomari Hearn encourages making a resolution to update (or create) your estate plan in 2017.
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An array of centrifugal forces is pulling the European Union apart, and 2017 may be the year it finally gives way.
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Ethics charges are readily deployed on Capitol Hill as political weapons, with little change in sight for now.
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Shomari Hearn explains the advantages of expanding your liability coverage.
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Eric Meermann suggests identifying your priorities and long-term plans before deciding on the details of your new mortgage.
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Circular Reporting On Russia
We know the Russians are hacking us, because our intelligence agencies tell us so. And they know for the same reason.
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