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What Is Estate Planning? Six Good Reasons Everyone Should Have An Estate Plan In Sugar Land
There comes a point when you hear news such as we all saw unfold over the weekend in London (and earlier in the week in Manchester, UK), and it's tempting to just go numb. It feels like survival, during these crazy times. But I'm fighting to care, and not just tune...
Millennials In The Sugar Land Workplace
Memorial Day is behind us, and our lives move forward. Mere words, even a full day of memorializing cannot measure the worth and honor due to our fallen service men and women. For many of us, a 3-day weekend ushers in the summer ... and maybe that's because the task...
Britz’s Guide To Keeping Financial Records
The other day, the New York Times ran a story that spoke to one of my favorite topics: keeping our minds clear. The subject was the seemingly-endless barrage of news stories about the current administration, and the challenges of navigating your mind to be free of it...
Dreaming Big Must Come Before Financial Planning by Pam Britz
You'd probably be surprised if you sat in on some of the meetings I have with some of my tax planning and preparation clients. This is by no means the majority of my clients, but there is certainly a good subset of people who have piled away a ton of financial...
How To Buy Happiness In Sugar Land
Not a huge amount of "tax news" these days ... we're watching Congressional movement on tax reform, Obamacare, etc. but right now, it's all mostly just talk. But that's politics, I suppose. Which is a good argument for not diving too deeply into it. Now ... moving to...
Pam Britz’s Three Ways To Live Out Your Retirement Lifestyle In Advance
First off, now that May is upon us, we're moving into a different mode. We have a few clients on extension (and with whom we will continue to correspond), but our attention is now more turned to other matters: tax planning (more about that soon), working with Sugar...
Tax Freedom Day And Amended Tax Returns For Sugar Land Taxpayers
When I say, "3.5 months of labor," I'm not actually referring to the work we do here in our Sugar Land tax office on behalf of our clients. (Frankly, we work the entire year so that these past few months would NOT be as crazy as they might otherwise be.) Nope, I'm...
A Tax Day Thank You From Pam Britz
Lifting my heavily-lidded eyes to peer up through the haze of government forms and procedures, I peek at the calendar, which today said: April 17. (If any of the above sounded slightly poetic, that's the coffee talking; I'm a Sugar Land tax accountant, after all.)...
Considering Filing A Tax Extension In Sugar Land? Read This First.
Last week, I wrote all about those deadlines. <shiver> I know for a fact that the very word can strike pain and anxiety into the hearts of certain of my clients (who shall remain nameless). So, this week ... well, I'm going to give you the chance to exhale a...