Robert Craig

Tax and Financial Consultant for individuals, corporations, LLC's, partnerships and estates & trusts. I also offer financial consulting for all areas of finance such as; retirement planning, debt consulting, and business consulting.

IRS and Phishing Scams

Aggressive and threatening phone calls by criminals impersonating IRS agents remain a major threat to taxpayers, headlining the annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams for the 2016 filing season, the Internal Revenue Service announced today. The IRS has seen a surge of these phone scams as scam artists threaten police arrest, deportation, license revocation […]

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starting a business

Starting a Business

Start-up Expenses Many people don’t think about start-up expenses as potentially deductible. Others think they are deductible just like day to day business operating expenses. Start-up expenses can be thought of as “thinking about getting into business expenses” and your “getting your business started expenses.” A key concept is that you must be ‘open for

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Tax Deductions – Travel, Meals & Entertainment

Travel, Meals and Entertainment Expenses Commuting Expenses.  To open this section I want to be sure we understand that, in general, the costs of commuting between a taxpayers home and work location are nondeductible commuting expenses.  But under certain circumstances these commuting expenses can be deductible if: 1)      The expense is for going between the

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Beware IRS Phishing Scams

Hello All, I’ve put this in my newsletters and website for years, but just got a phone call from a client whose identity was compromised when he opened an email that said it was from the IRS and answered some questions. As I’ve stated before, the IRS does not generally contact taxpayers via email. Never,

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Tax Deal Made

Well, they did it. They drug it out to the last minute, but they did it. Weeelll, they did some of it. And I’d really like to thank all of them in Washington for dragging us through this during the holidays and leaving us to sort this all out this morning while at the same

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