Michael Lin’s List of What Else Is Due On April 18th
It's "go time" around here. Our phones are buzzing, the email inboxes are overflowing, but we are focused like a laser beam on giving our clients the BEST service for their time (and wallet), and ensuring that nobody is paying Uncle Sam more than they should. We've...
Michael Lin’s Simple Two-Step Trick for Conquering Procrastination
Apparently, the Republican Congressional leadership understands the impulse of procrastination. Bringing the health care reform bill to an actual vote last week (after months of touting their intentions to repeal the ACA) proved, in fact, to be a difficult task. And...
4 Very Common Mistakes Chino Investors Should Avoid When Opening An IRA
There are so many different messages coming out of DC, per the media, that if you try to make sense of it all through the mass media lens, then you're bound to work at cross purposes with yourself. There's the Republican health care bill, and the current version of...
Why You Should Consider Giving Away Your Tax Refund by Michael Lin
This past Sunday, the NCAA revealed the brackets for March Madness. The country will be inflicted with a particular form of hysteria these next few weeks, but unfortunately, this little national hoops holiday isn't one which my staff and I get much chance to...
Michael Lin’s Tax Paperwork Checklist
These days, I'm often glad that it's our busy tax filing season, so that I have an easy excuse when political conversations are happening: Oh THAT [crazy new political story]? Huh, didn't see it -- I'm too busy with tax season. With all of the chaos out there, the...
Four Tips On Gently Encouraging Your College Graduate Living At Home To Independence by Michael Lin
It's a hard world out there, for sure. (You know it's tough when they can't even get the Best Picture award right at the Oscars!) And for our young millennials, it sure seems like things are harder than they were when we were entering the workplace life. If you...
The Top 12 2017 IRS Scams by Michael Lin
Every year around this time of year, the Treasury Department releases their list of the various shenanigans that criminals and the like try to pull around taxes. Obviously, this activity peaks around now, and so it's a very good idea to be on your guard. Last week,...
A Chino Tax Professional’s Valentine’s Day Plan
Whatever you might think about the New England Patriots, it's nearly impossible not to respect their prowess on the football field. And there are plenty of storylines we can all take away from that epic game: * Apparently it's a good year to be a man with a...
What To Look For In a Chino Tax Professional
The world is awash in shouting these days. Can you feel it? It's tax season, and so I'm not spending much time in Facebook, but I know for a fact that there is a lot of anger, frustration and noise about politics. So much so that it seems everywhere you turn these...
Common Tax Return Errors To Avoid For Chino Self-Preparers
The Super Bowl teams are set, the new President is inaugurated ... why does it feel like things are still going so fast? Perhaps, for me and my team, it's because we finally are able to submit tax returns to the IRS (they began receiving them on Monday the 23rd). But...
Michael Lin’s Rule From The Successful
I have to first get this off my chest, before we get to the orders of business for today. A Chino friend who was watching football the other day asked me about a commercial he saw from a "popular" tax chain (who shall remain nameless) that is heavily advertising...
Michael Lin’s Tax Preparation Checklist
I shared my "resolutions" last week, and it was really nice to see the response, and to know that many of our Chino clients are equally excited for the opportunity to put new legs to a new year ... and to make 2017 (much) better than 2016. I remember seeing a study in...