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Millennials In The Palmdale Area Workplace
Memorial Day is behind us, and our lives move forward. Mere words, even a full day of memorializing cannot measure the worth and honor due to our fallen service men and women. For many of us, a 3-day weekend ushers in the summer ... and maybe that's because the task...
Williams’ Guide To Keeping Financial Records
The other day, the New York Times ran a story that spoke to one of my favorite topics: keeping our minds clear. The subject was the seemingly-endless barrage of news stories about the current administration, and the challenges of navigating your mind to be free of it...
Dreaming Big Must Come Before Financial Planning by Rodney Williams
You'd probably be surprised if you sat in on some of the meetings I have with some of my tax planning and preparation clients. This is by no means the majority of my clients, but there is certainly a good subset of people who have piled away a ton of financial...
How To Buy Happiness In Palmdale, and the Greater Los Angeles Area
Not a huge amount of "tax news" these days ... we're watching Congressional movement on tax reform, Obamacare, etc. but right now, it's all mostly just talk. But that's politics, I suppose. Which is a good argument for not diving too deeply into it. Now ... moving to...
Rodney Williams’s Three Ways To Live Out Your Retirement Lifestyle In Advance
First off, now that May is upon us, we're moving into a different mode. We have a few clients on extension (and with whom we will continue to correspond), but our attention is now more turned to other matters: tax planning (more about that soon), working with...
Tax Freedom Day And Amended Tax Returns For Greater Los Angeles Area Taxpayers
When I say, "3.5 months of labor," I'm not actually referring to the work we do here in our Palmdale, CA area tax office on behalf of our clients. (Frankly, we work the entire year so that these past few months would NOT be as crazy as they might otherwise be.) Nope,...
A Tax Day Thank You From Rodney Williams
Lifting my heavily-lidded eyes to peer up through the haze of government forms and procedures, I peek at the calendar, which today said: April 17. (If any of the above sounded slightly poetic, that's the coffee talking; I'm a Greater Los Angeles Area tax accountant,...
Considering Filing A Tax Extension In the Greater Los Angeles Area? Read This First.
Last week, I wrote all about those deadlines. <shiver> I know for a fact that the very word can strike pain and anxiety into the hearts of certain of my clients (who shall remain nameless). So, this week ... well, I'm going to give you the chance to exhale a...
Rodney Williams’ List of What Else Is Due On April 18th
It's "go time" around here. Our phones are buzzing, the email inboxes are overflowing, but we are focused like a laser beam on giving our clients the BEST service for their time (and wallet), and ensuring that nobody is paying Uncle Sam more than they should. We've...