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Fall Is A Time To Regroup

Just like when you clean house and deep clean all those places you forgot about with the cooler weather, this is often a good time

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Beware of holiday charitable donation scams!

Especially prevalent around the holiday season and usually targeting the elderly, false charitable organizations often scam people who are looking to make a donation they

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Taxability of Prizes/Gifts

The IRS wants to celebrate with you! There are very complex, specific rules for prizes that qualify as nontaxable. In general, gifts are usually not

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Nov 26 Cutoff for E-filing 2022

The IRS system will stop accepting e-filed returns after Nov 26, 2022. Until Nov 26, 2022; tax returns for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021

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The Cost of Doing Your Own Bookkeeping

Let’s say your bookkeeper, whether they are hourly or at a monthly rate costs $500/month. That is $6,000/year. Your business only profits $30,000 a year.

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1099s Due End of January!

1099s need to be efiled by the end of January. If you have hired individuals or companies in 2021 who performed services for you, they

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End of Year Cleanup

End of year is time to regroup… if you own a business, start cleaning up your books now before tax season hits and all your

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Full-service payroll at Competitive Rates!!!

Fleig Financials offers different packages of full-service payroll at competitive rates. Call at 361 443-3787 to set up your free consultation and personalized quote! Making

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Mobile Notary Services & Flexible Hours

Flexible hours are available for notary services for all of you who work 9-5. They are APPOINTMENT ONLY. I will notarize as early as 7am

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Thank YOU!!!

Texas Tax Season officially ended June 15 and I filed all my extensions and started breathing again. I am so grateful to all of you

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How To Get Rich And Stay Rich

I grew up without TV and certain books shaped my life and viewpoint and success. One of the first ones was the 7 Habits of

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Earned Income Credit

Earned income maximum credits and earned income thresholds are up slightly from 2019 tax year, allowing some people who would not normally have qualified to

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Is The Government Really Helping?

More and more, my clients are saying it is getting harder to hire because people are making more off unemployment than they are actually working.

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What To Do If You Didn’t Receive Your 2020 Stimulus Payment

Call me! 361 443-3787 If it is January of 2021 and you never received the first $1,200 or second $600, your best bet is to

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Office Setup For a New Business

So you started your business… and you hired a secretary. She’s doing pretty good but sometimes you aren’t sure if everything is filed correctly or

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What If I Didn’t Receive My Stimulus Payment?

Let’s start with if you did. If you did receive your stimulus payment, keep it for your tax records along with Notice 1444 for your

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End of Year Tax Strategies for Small Cash-based Businesses

Schedule Cs, especially face steep taxes for their net profit but there are sometimes strategic moves you can make toward the end of the year

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$300 “Above The Line” 2020 Charity Deduction Applies Even If You Don’t Itemize

As part of the CARES Act, a temporary $300 tax deduction will apply to 2020 even for those who don’t itemize. Normally, charitable deductions only

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Tax Effect to Low Income Individuals if the Biden/Harris Policies Are Put Into Effect

For all of you believing that a Biden/Harris Presidency would only raise taxes for those making over $400,000, it isn’t true. Their plan includes immediately

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Texas Notarial Acts

A notary in the state of Texas can only notarize in the State of Texas and only when the person signing the document personally appears.

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Amendments & Mail In Returns Still Delayed

If you mailed in your return and are still not seeing the money come out, give it time… it may take 6 months or even

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End of Year Accounting

October and November are a good time to do some final cleanup to the books and take a deeper look at your office systems and

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Your LLC needs maintenance too…

Many people don’t realize that an LLC is not a permanent entity class like an EIN. An LLC is a state-level entity and most states

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Temporary Suspension of IRS Tax Collection Notices

In plain English, the IRS is very backed up on mail. Mail-in returns, mailed payments, etc. So backed up that sometimes by the time they

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Resuming payments to the IRS

This article from irs.gov addresses resuming tax payments on installment agreements. “July 13, 2020 If you took advantage of the IRS’s People First Initiative tax relief and

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Option to Defer SS Tax for Employers and Employees

This is one of the options available through the CARES project to offer Coronavirus relief options. My advice to everyone: Don’t defer payroll tax. Pay

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The Emotional Balance in Business

Have you ever gotten too connected to an idea? For me, personally, we bought a home to fix up and it has taken a tremendous

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Don’t Rush Too Much On Your PPP Forgiveness Applications

I have been speaking with local lenders regarding the details on PPP forgiveness and have been advised to wait a few weeks to send in

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3rd Quarter Est Tax Payment Due Sep 15

***Reminder to all the self-employed and those who pay in, the deadline for the 3rd estimated tax payment is Sep 15, 2020.*** The IRS will

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Business Structure: Why It Matters

Structure is strategy. And if you don’t have a long term plan for your business, you’re missing out. It’s not enough to figure it out

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2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act And How It Affects Individuals

Here is my Key Takeaways for the individual portion of this Act: You will no longer get fined for not having health coverage. Alimony payments

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2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act & Businesses

There is always so MUCH information when it comes to the IRS. Some key takeaways to this bill: Corporate tax rate has been changed to

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How To Save On Taxes, Invest And Improve Your City

Opportunity Zones were put into place along with Trump’s Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017. They are a wonderful way to proactively combat some

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Tax Deduction For Teachers

Copied from my favorite source, irs.gov, here the link to this article: https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc458 “If you’re an eligible educator, you can deduct up to $250 ($500

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Flexible Notary Hours

Flexible hours for notary work!!! I know many of you are trying to get things done around your regular jobs and I know how hard

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How To Save Up to 50% on Your Quickbooks Online Subscription

I’ve mentioned in previous articles that most people often come to me after they’ve already messed up their Quickbooks and they have a few years

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Unemployment Compensation Is Taxable: Plan Ahead To Avoid Surprises In Tax Season

Unemployment is a voluntary withholding compensation. This means, you have to request to have tax withheld. It will not be automatically done for you. See

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All Notarial Acts Require Notary Journals

This article explains the risks involved in notary work and why in-person notary services are the best option, at least right now. Fleig Financials follows

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Coronavirus Relief for Retirement Distributions

The IRS has issued a special provision for waiving the additional tax on distributions taken to help with Coronavirus related issues requiring distributions in 2020.

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Why Masks Must Come Off for Proper Identification

In the midst of the hype with this virus from China, there are extra challenges in following due process to ID properly during notarization and

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First Step for Budgeting

Budgeting/Long Term business planning is an essential thing to do that many businesses neglect just because the day to day takes too much of their

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20 Ways to Build Your Credit

Sometimes financing is the only way to take that next step, whether personally or for your business. It can be very frustrating to not be

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Common Quickbooks Mistakes

Just because it is advertised as user-friendly doesn’t mean it is… Quickbooks is a great example of this. It can be tricky! What seems to

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2024 Election Candidates Tax Policies

Behind all the personal comments, bias and drama based on general answers to questions that are too complex to answer quickly and a media that

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S Corp, Partnership & Sch F Extensions expiring Sep 15

Extensions for Partnership, S Corp returns and personal returns with a Schedule F (farm) filed by March 15, 2024 only last until Sep 15, 2024.

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2021 Tax Returns Due Oct 15, 2022

It’s fall! And that means the fall tax extension deadlines are coming up… Call 361 443-3787 to get your tax return efiled before the due

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