Rich Streitfeld, CPA

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Richard Streitfeld – Buddhist Mensch

YEAR-END TIDBITS

Q: You’ve been preparing taxes for 98,172 years. What kind of mistakes do you see year after year? – Mel Brookstein, the 1000 year old man A: Here’s one! Self-employed or taxpayers with substantial investments often do not keep accurate track of their estimated tax payments. The IRS and States do keep track, so you
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Richard Streitfeld – Buddhist Mensch

Social InSecurity

My husband(s) left me (8 of them did); I’m a starving artist.  Will I end up a poor lady? La La Gabor, Hollywood La La:  There is hope for you. If you stayed married with any one of your men for 10 years, you can receive Social  Security benefits as early as age 62 if
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Zen Mensch Accounting

RAISE THE MOST, COAST TO COAST?
NON-PROFIT REGISTRATION HEADACHES

Think it’s easy being a non-profit? (NOT!) There is the constant struggle for funding, which gets harder as times get leaner.  There is finding the right people for a productive, engaged board that still gives proper authority to staff — a fine line. Now comes another possible headache — multi-state registration. Typically a local non-profit
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Richard Streitfeld – Buddhist Mensch

What’s the Use Tax?

You know about sales tax.  But did you know about state “use tax”. If you did and you ignored it, you have plenty of company. But now, Rhode Islander’s — especially businesses — need to understand and account for it. Use tax is essentially sales tax that does not get charged at the point of
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