Yearly Archives: 2017

It's a hard world out there, for sure. (You know it's tough when they can't even get the Best Picture award right at the Oscars!) And for our young millennials, it sure seems like things are harder than they were when we were entering the workplace life. If you haven't already watched this, I highly [...]

Every year around this time of year, the Treasury Department releases their list of the various shenanigans that criminals and the like try to pull around taxes. Obviously, this activity peaks around now, and so it's a very good idea to be on your guard. Last week, the IRS completed their 2017 IRS Scams list, [...]

We are rocking and rolling through tax season these days at Ye Olde Tolbert Tax Shoppe. But I woke up Monday to the news that the federal government took in a record $1.08 trillion in taxes during the first quarter of their fiscal 2017 (which ran from Oct '16 - Jan '17). That's a lot [...]

Whatever you might think about the New England Patriots, it's nearly impossible not to respect their prowess on the football field. And there are plenty of storylines we can all take away from that epic game: * Apparently it's a good year to be a man with a foreign-model wife, with a much-discussed history with [...]

The world is awash in shouting these days. Can you feel it? It's tax season, and so I'm not spending much time in Facebook, but I know for a fact that there is a lot of anger, frustration and noise about politics. So much so that it seems everywhere you turn these days somebody is [...]

The Super Bowl teams are set, the new President is inaugurated ... why does it feel like things are still going so fast? Perhaps, for me and my team, it's because we finally are able to submit tax returns to the IRS (they began receiving them on Monday the 23rd). But it's also just the [...]

I have to first get this off my chest, before we get to the orders of business for today. A San Antonio friend who was watching football the other day asked me about a commercial he saw from a "popular" tax chain (who shall remain nameless) that is heavily advertising "free" tax preparation. Leaving aside [...]

I shared my "resolutions" last week, and it was really nice to see the response, and to know that many of our clients are equally excited for the opportunity to put new legs to a new year ... and to make 2017 (much) better than 2016. I remember seeing a study in the Journal of [...]

Well, here we are in 2017. Rather eerie, in my opinion. As the holidays wind down, it means no more extended family (which might be a relief?), no more parties, no more presents. Just ... daily life in San Antonio. And, in my opinion, this coming week is actually crucial to how the rest of [...]