Inflation Concerns
Should You Be Concerned About Inflation? If you pay attention to financial news, you are probably seeing a lot of discussion about inflation, which has reared its head in the U.S. economy after being mostly dormant for the last decade. In May 2021, the Consumer Price...
Looking for Coverage in All the Right Places
Insurance is everywhere; it is intertwined with every facet of our working and personal lives. Yet, all too often when a loss occurs or a liability is sustained, corporate and individual policyholders fail to obtain the full protection that insurance promises to...
Client Spotlight – the Wristbridge Family
The entrepreneurial spirit runs strong in some families, and the Wristbridge family is one of them. Originally from Haddon Heights, NJ, John Wristbridge is a third generation businessman and entrepreneur who was raised in an environment of hard work, integrity and...
Provider Relief Fund Updates
Funding, applications, more funding, reporting, more applications and perhaps more funding! The evolution of information is constant. There is hardly time to blink because you might miss something important. Currently, many who received in aggregate greater than...
Tax Brief
New York State Pass-Through Entity Tax (PTET) New York State has enacted a workaround for the $10,000 state and local tax deduction limitation for the year tax year 2021. The workaround is only eligible for Partners in Partnerships, not publicly traded, and...
Changes to Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit for 2021
The child and dependent care tax credit is a credit allowed for expenses that a taxpayer incurs for the care of a child under age 13 or a dependent relative that enable the taxpayer to work or look for work. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) enacted March 11, 2021...
Help! I Invested in Cryptocurrency and Meme Stocks! What Do I Do Now?
A scenario for you: You’re a young millennial who spends his or her mornings perusing your most trusted source of internet news (I, of course, am referring to Reddit) in November of 2020. A hot tip involving a potential short-squeeze opportunity to profit off of an...
Tips from the IRS for Your Protection
It seems that calls to protect my car with an extended warranty are now outnumbering the threatening calls I once got, supposedly from the IRS. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that scammers have given up pretending to be collection agents for the IRS. For our...
Who Needs Another PIN
For years the IRS has issued Identity Protection PINS to proven victims of tax-related identity theft. The number is mailed to the taxpayer every year and is used to file all federal returns, both electronic and paper. This year the IRS will allow eligible taxpayers...
Don’t Buck the Fed
As the saying goes in the investment community, you "Don't Buck the Fed", but rather you follow their lead and take advantage of what they give you. Well, what more important investment do employers have than their own companies? Therefore, my recommendation is that...
Risk Management for Your Organization
In order to fulfill their charge to provide direction and guide an organization, the Board of Directors must manage risk. Effective risk management involves a process of planning, prioritizing and protecting. In the planning stage, it’s important to identify all the...
Contributions From IRAs
Background The Pension Protection Act of 2006 first allowed taxpayers age 701/2 or older to make tax-free charitable donations directly from their IRAs. Technically, these taxpayers were allowed to exclude from gross income otherwise taxable distributions from their...