Jan 16, 2019 | Blog, Tax Law, Taxes
While most provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) went into effect in 2018 and either apply through 2025 or are permanent, there are two major changes under the act for 2019. Here’s a closer look. 1. Medical expense deduction threshold With rising health care...
Jan 2, 2019 | Blog, Small Business Taxes
The dawning of 2019 means the 2018 income tax filing season will soon be upon us. After year end, it’s generally too late to take action to reduce 2018 taxes. Business owners may, therefore, want to shift their focus to assessing whether they’ll likely owe taxes or...
Sep 11, 2018 | Blog, Community, Life, Our World
In Memoriam. Alan R. Cochran (1/3/1953-8/2/2018) Valued Client. More Valued Brother-in-law and Friend. For several summers, my family and I made trips to Hilton Head with my sister, Kathy, and her husband, Alan. On one trip, we had been to dinner together and were...
May 29, 2018 | Blog, Life, Our World
In part 1, we explored “quality of presence” as the way you show up in the world. Presence is your particular flavor and awareness, the way you hold space and move through the details of your days. It is perhaps the difference between the way a school kid who is...
Feb 23, 2018 | Blog, Community, Life, Our World
We live in a truly beautiful world full of goodness and life. One doesn’t have to look very far to find something to appreciate—friends, family, tangy yellow lemons, those elegant cats we call jaguars, moonlight, fast cars, folk music, kissing, and delicious tacos....
Jan 10, 2018 | Blog, Life
Each season offers gifts all its own. January’s spare beauty seems fitting after the extravagance of the holidays. Trees have shed every outer expression of the living sap within. Icy streams conceal mottled fish resting below. Snow blankets the fields’ ridges,...
