Can you believe it? Three weeks until the May 17th deadline! You’ll forgive me if visions of vacation and beaches are dancing through my daydreams.For many in Cleveland, daydreams like these become more frequent while contemplating retirement (not just surviving...
As the old joke goes, the only two guarantees in life are death and taxes.In these updates, I obviously spend a lot of time talking about taxes.And these past 12 months, no matter how things have landed for those of you in or near Cleveland … the other part of...
Buying a house in Cleveland right now is painful. Very painful. Inventory is at a historic low, and prices are skyrocketing.I have some thoughts — and while this is admittedly not within my direct “wheelhouse” … I think it will help as we move...
I have to apologize to all of my Cleveland clients for the sheer volume of tax-centric writing I’ve been doing the last few weeks and months.Normally, I like to write on other topics (in addition to the tax-related stuff) … but I cannot emphasize enough...
Last week marked the one year anniversary of the CARES Act (stimulus round 1). This was such a monstrous piece of legislation, it’s still being unraveled. It made “Obamacare” (ACA) and the “Trump Tax Cuts” (TCJA) seem like junior league...
With a third round of “stimmy” (as the kids say) hitting bank accounts for the past week, 90MM+ Americans (including some of us in Cleveland) are once again flush with cash. It remains to be seen what this will do for the economy, but combined with what...