Financial fraud is becoming more and more widespread by the minute. The bottom line: take care to protect yourself from identity fraud.
Category: Accounting
Two Tax Scams to Look Out for as the April 15 Tax Deadline Approaches
With just one week to go before the April 15 deadline, Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP warns you of two tax scams that have dominated in 2014.
Holding Equities for the Long Term: Time Versus Timing
Investing with an eye to the long term is particularly important with stocks. Historically, equities outperform bonds, cash, and inflation, though there are no guarantees.
11 Ways to Help Yourself Stay Sane in a Crazy Market
Keeping your cool can be hard when the market goes on a roller-coaster ride. It’s useful to have strategies that prepare you to handle market volatility.
Tax Court Says One Tax-Free Rollover per Year Means Just That
Don’t forget, you can make unlimited direct transfers between IRAs. Direct transfers between IRA trustees and custodians aren’t subject to the one-rollover-per-year rule.
What You Need to Know about myRAs
The myRA is a new workplace retirement savings account recently discussed by President Obama, and subsequently authorized by executive order. Learn more from HA&W.
Handling Market Volatility
Conventional wisdom says what goes up, must come down. Even if market volatility is a normal occurrence, it can be tough to handle when it’s your money at stake.
Monitoring Your Portfolio
Just like your initial investing strategy, your game plan for fine-tuning your portfolio periodically should reflect your investing personality.
Easy Money Winds Down, Markets React
Recent turmoil demonstrates just how tightly linked global markets are now. Shift in Fed policy coupled with internal problems in a number of emerging-market countries have given financial markets around the world the jitters.
Women and Money: Taking Control of Your Finances
As a woman, you have financial needs that are unique to your situation in life. With a financial plan in place, you’ll be better able to focus on your financial goals and understand what it will take to reach them.
College Costs 2013/2014: Increases Slow, but So Does Growth in Grant Aid
In its report, the College Board noted that even though this year’s increases in tuition and fees were the smallest in many years, the growth in student grant aid from previous years has not kept pace.
Rules Eased for Health FSAs
Recent changes announced by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) modify the “use-it-or-lose-it” rule that applies to health flexible spending arrangements (FSAs).
Social Security Claiming Strategies for Married Couples
Deciding when to begin receiving Social Security benefits is a major financial issue for anyone approaching retirement. Make sure you’re prepared.
Year-End Charitable Giving
Charitable giving can be enhanced using income tax deductions, and so it can be much more effective when it is included as part of year-end tax planning.
Three Things You Can Do to Avoid Being Audited
If your income is higher than $200,000, there is currently a 1 in 27 chance you will be audited. But what do these audits entail – and how can you avoid them?
Two Tax Horror Stories, and How You Can Avoid the Nightmare
Paying taxes is just like going to see a good slasher film these days: terrifying and almost guaranteed to make a dent in your wallet.
