Yearly Archives: 2016

I woke up Monday morning, after the wonderful holiday weekend ... and I had a realization: "After today, there are only FIVE days left in 2016." Perhaps not a genius realization -- fine. BUT, if you're smart about how you handle these days, you can pay yourself quite well when tax time rolls around. The [...]

I came in to the office this morning, and I noticed that traffic is already a little lighter around town. Many of us are still working, but I have plenty of friends who have already taken time away from work, starting today. Whatever your faith background, it's hard to ignore the holiday clamor. In my [...]

There's a lot of talk these days about fake news -- which is interesting, because most of us have realized for quite some time that much of the news is glorified "PR" in the first place. But before I get there, here is some information that is NOT fake... A bunch of tax deadlines were [...]

It's getting real around our Tolbert CPA LLC offices these days. Our busiest time of year is definitely during "tax season", but we are in our intense preparatory stage for it AND so are our (smarter) clients. We have no complaints, and we love our clients ... but it does add some oomph to the [...]

Lost amid all of the Thanksgiving and holiday noise was the fact that a federal judge just blocked the implementation of the new overtime rules that small businesses were scrambling to prepare for this year. They had been scheduled to take effect on 12/1 of this year, but right now they're in limbo. If your [...]

This week of Thanksgiving seems like it hurtled its way towards us, and suddenly the holidays are upon us. Perhaps it's because of the elections, maybe the weather ... but for some reason, it feels very sudden. And that's probably a good thing, because it's our chance to take a breath as a nation, and [...]

Now that the elections are over, we are all adjusting to the idea of President Donald Trump. Even typing those words is an odd experience (as it would also have been to type "President Hillary Clinton") ... we've had eight years of President Barack Obama, and however we feel about all of it, it's always [...]

I'm specifically putting this together on Monday, November 7th, before Election Day, before we know the outcome of our long national sojourn. So many have been writing things like "I can't wait for this election to be over!" and I have felt the same. But now is when the real work begins. Again, today is [...]

As I promised, I have some information for you about the broad strokes of the potential income and business tax policies of our candidates for President this year. It's obviously a politically-charged issue, and so I've drawn from my own analysis, as well as the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. But I also hope to turn down [...]

I wanted to put this on your radar before the next few weeks, when (apparently) our nation (and perhaps even our little village of San Antonio) will be going down in flames. If we are to believe either/both sides of this nasty election, if Trump/Clinton steals/wins/loses the election, then we will have chaos/civil-war/armageddon and life/politics/Facebook [...]