Mar 21, 2019 | Blog, Community, Life, Our World
March 18, 2019, 3:29 PM EDT / Source: TODAY By Rachel Paula Abrahamson More than 2 million people watched — and wept — as Rion Holcombe, a 20-year-old man with Down syndrome, joyfully opened an acceptance letter from South Carolina’s Clemson University in 2013. Behind...
Feb 26, 2019 | Life, Non-Profit, Tax Law
Raffles are popular fundraisers for not-for-profits. But they’re subject to strict tax rules. State laws on nonprofit-sponsored raffles can vary significantly, but nonprofits must comply with federal income tax requirements linked to unrelated business income,...
Feb 21, 2019 | Blog, Individual Taxes, Life, Taxes
Some of your deductions may be smaller (or nonexistent) when you file your 2018 tax return While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) reduces most income tax rates and expands some tax breaks, it limits or eliminates several itemized deductions that have been valuable to...
Feb 20, 2019 | Blog, Life, Tax Law, Taxes, Wealth
The IRS opened the 2018 income tax return filing season on January 28. Even if you typically don’t file until much closer to the April 15 deadline, this year consider filing as soon as you can. Why? You can potentially protect yourself from tax identity theft — and...
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...
