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Our Focus newsletter provides monthly tax trends and topics written by our professionals.
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 05/01/2012Estate Planning: What’s the Next Move?We have only 200 or so more shopping days before Christmas this year and while gift giving may not be terribly high on your agenda you may want to think about it as part of your estate plan. The estate tax and the level of wealth that… |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 05/01/2012Beyond the Numbers: Melissa K. Keller, CPAMelissa K. Keller, CPA has been with Dermody, Burke & Brown since 1989. As an Audit and Accounting Senior Manager at the Firm she has over 15 years experience providing audit services to financial institutions. |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 04/01/2012Doing Business OverseasThe annual meeting of CenterState CEO in early April featured speakers from the Brookings Institute and the Export Import Bank stressing the reality of the global economy and the need to increase export business in Central New York. |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 04/01/2012Beyond the Numbers: David CoreyDavid Corey has been in public accounting for approximately ten years, all at Dermody, Burke & Brown. |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 03/01/2012Beyond the Numbers: Jean Bonin, CPAJean Bonin, CPA joined Dermody, Burke & Brown in 2008 as an Audit & Accounting Senior Manager with over 20 years of combined experience in both public accounting and in the private sector. |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 03/01/2012The Dirty DozenIn the classic 1967 movie, The Dirty Dozen, Lee Marvin leads a dozen convicted murderers into a mass assassination raid during World War II. The dozen will stop at nothing to fulfill their mission as their alternatives are death by hanging… |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 03/01/2012IRS Clarifies Capital Improvement vs Repair Expense?You may often find yourself asking the question "How do I distinguish a capital purchase from a repair expense"? |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 02/01/2012Beyond the Numbers: Shannon B. Nelson, CPA, PartnerShannon B. Nelson, CPA, Partner, joined Dermody, Burke & Brown in 1989. |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 02/01/2012Starting a New Business: Make the First Choice the Right ChoiceFor anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit, the thought of starting your own business is both an exciting and frightening venture. |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 02/01/2012Inquiring Minds Want to KnowIf we seem to be asking a lot more questions of you when we are preparing your returns it is not that we have become nosier, it's because the Internal Revenue Service has added more questions to your returns. |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 01/01/2012Tax Law Changes for 2012The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 was a sweeping tax package that included, among many other items, an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for two years (2010 and 2011), estate tax relief,… |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 01/01/20122011 Form 1099-B and Capital Gains and Losses Reporting ChangesBeginning with the 2011 tax year, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 included new reporting requirements for brokerage firms and financial institutions. |