IRS Penalties Go Up as 2017 Tax Rates Go Down

Bloomberg BNA has just published its 2017 Projected Tax Rates along with a projection of tax items that have been adjusted for inflation.   That means that the cost of noncompliance will increase. The good news is that individuals and businesses can look forward...

Worst Ideas about Paying Taxes

Kevin Thompson, CPA, did a recent internet search revealing some horrifically interesting ideas about paying taxes. Below are just a few of some of the worst ideas that people have come up with regarding doing their taxes.   Thinking that filing taxes is...

The Entrepreneurial Spirit from Beyonce to Bill Gates

It’s not easy being an entrepreneur.  It takes a ton of hard work and a bucket full of tears if you want to be successful. Kevin Thompson, CPA says “being an entrepreneur is about the hardest thing I have ever done. As the entrepreneur, I am responsible for customers,...

Is the Big Bang Coming?

Big Bang or Colossal Crash? It may be happening sooner than we think. The Physical Review letters published a paper in which a group of physicists developed a mechanism for “cosmological collapse.” They are saying the universe will stop expanding and collapse back...