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Avoiding IRS Penalties

By |2024-06-17T19:54:01+00:00June 17th, 2024|Categories: Single Point of View, Tax Planning|Tags: , , |

I've yet to meet someone who likes paying more to the IRS than they are required to.  The below article from the WSJ highlights a common IRS penalty that you want to make sure you are avoiding, penalties on under payments. You can click on the article below to read it all, but for the [...]

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What’s New(s) with Seth: April 2023

By |2023-04-13T20:21:11+00:00April 13th, 2023|Categories: Single Point of View, Tax Planning, What's New(s)?|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Seth is back with another installment of “What’s New(s)?”  highlighting the topics that he’s following closely which might have an impact on you, as well as some others that he thinks you might find interesting or fun.  Maura Healey released a $750MM tax reform plan for the state of Massachusetts.  Among the notable proposals: [...]

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What’s New(s) with Seth: October 2022

By |2022-10-31T17:42:50+00:00October 31st, 2022|Categories: Investment Planning, Single Point of View, Tax Planning, What's New(s)?|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Seth is back with another installment of “What’s New(s)?”  highlighting the topics that he’s following closely which might have an impact on you, as well as some others that he thinks you might find interesting or fun.  A recent Morningstar study found that investors earned ~9.3%/year in mutual funds and ETFs over a decade [...]

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MA Chapter 62F Refunds – aka MA tax refunds for all!!

By |2022-09-22T15:02:34+00:00September 22nd, 2022|Categories: Single Point of View, Tax Planning|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Massachusetts taxpayers will be excited to find out that they will be receiving a refund from MA for tax year 2021! Massachusetts law dictates that if tax revenue collections exceed a certain annual tax revenue cap then all excess will be returned to taxpayers.  MA exceeded the cap in 2021, so what this functionally [...]

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What’s New(s) with Seth: July 2022

By |2022-07-28T15:57:59+00:00July 28th, 2022|Categories: Estate Planning, Single Point of View, Tax Planning, What's New(s)?|Tags: , , |

Seth is back with another installment of “What’s New(s)?”  highlighting the topics that he’s following closely which might have an impact on you, as well as some others that he thinks you might find interesting or fun.  Governor Charlie Baker has a new budget plan that could change the draconian Massachusetts state estate tax [...]

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What’s New(s)? with Seth: September 2021

By |2021-09-23T16:45:38+00:00September 23rd, 2021|Categories: Single Point of View, Tax Planning, What's New(s)?|

Seth is back with another installment of “What’s New(s)?”  highlighting the topics that he’s following closely which might have an impact on you, as well as some others that he thinks you might find interesting or fun.  The house panel pushed through a revised tax proposal on 9/13/21.  While there will most certainly be [...]

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Child Tax Credit: What is it and Should I be taking it?

By |2021-09-16T18:37:57+00:00September 16th, 2021|Categories: Single Point of View, Tax Planning|

If you have kids who are dependents on your tax return, you may be wondering why you started receiving checks in the mail (or direct deposits to your bank) from the IRS in July. Earlier this summer, close to 39 million families started receiving advanced monthly child tax credit payments. With these payments came a [...]

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What’s New(s) with Seth? June 2021

By |2021-06-24T13:35:46+00:00June 24th, 2021|Categories: Investment Planning, Single Point of View, Tax Planning, What's New(s)?|Tags: , , |

Seth is back with another installment of “What’s New(s)?”  highlighting the topics that he’s following closely which might have an impact on you, as well as some others that he thinks you might find interesting or fun.  The passive investing behemoth Vanguard is going to begin offering private equity investments for self-directed clients that [...]

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A mistake on your tax return, now what?

By |2021-05-28T17:29:58+00:00May 28th, 2021|Categories: Behind The Curtain, Single Point of View, Tax Planning|Tags: |

I'd say Seth's expression here pretty much sums it up.  :) It's been a little while since our last Behind The Curtain video.  Today, Seth and I were chatting about how we approach clients when we notice a mistake on their tax return.

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What’s New(s)? with Seth: May 2021

By |2021-05-12T17:04:01+00:00May 12th, 2021|Categories: General Planning, Single Point of View, Tax Planning, What's New(s)?|

Seth is back with another installment of "What's New(s)?"  highlighting the topics that he’s following closely which might have an impact on you, as well as some others that he thinks you might find interesting or fun.  President Biden proposed The American Families Plan which has some major income and estate tax implications.  [...]

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