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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 [...]

Well, our "extension season" is behind us (as of Monday the 17th), and we here at Team Tolbert can finally turn our full attention to what's coming down the pike in 2017. With the election brewing around us, Congress isn't doing *anything* right now about tax legislation ... so, as usual, there will be some [...]

If you work in the B2B (Business to Business) space, I have some thoughts for you here. We're cranking out the work this week (because, as a reminder, October 17th is the deadline to ensure your 2015 extended tax return is filed. It's also the deadline for contributions to self-employed retirement accounts and for a [...]

I know that I'm not the only one who deals with this. How many times have you started work early -- and the next thing you knew it was 4PM ... and your instant reaction was: I haven't made any progress today on my most important stuff? If you're like the rest of us: quite [...]

I get a lot of replies and personal comments about the emails that I send out, both to our business owners and to our family/individual clients. Today (and perhaps a little more in future weeks), if you'll permit me, I'm going to peel back the curtain on some of the thinking behind why we do [...]