And Then They Came For The Go Masters
I am often surprised by how many people are not at all familiar with the game of Go. It is more ancient that Chess and both easier and harder. It is easier because...
AICPA Versus Block Advisors In Spat I Hope They Both Lose
So why am I just getting out the popcorn rather than taking sides in this conflict? What Block Advisors is promising is giving people access to the type of relationship that many people have with CPAs and EAs and even the occasional preparer, like Bob Flach, the Wandering Tax Pro that earned us the title “Trusted Advisor”. Somebody who knows the tax law in a practical sense and knows and understands you and tailors their practice to your foibles or perhaps practices tough love to get you more organized. If you are ever audited they will defend you tenaciously and if necessary fall on their sword for you. When it works really well they will complement your personality, reassuring the timid and restraining the overly aggressive.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.