Five Tips if You Changed Your name Due to Marriage or Divorce
Five Tips if You Changed Your Name Due to Marriage or Divorce Aldana & Associates, PSC, LTD, Henry Aldana, CEO If you changed your name as a result of a recent marriage or divorce you’ll want to take the necessary steps to ensure the name on your tax return matches the name registered with the Social Security Administration. A mismatch between the name shown on your tax return and the SSA records can cause problems in the processing of your return and may even delay your refund. Here are five tips from the IRS for recently married...
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Medical and Dental Expenses If you itemize your deductions on Form 1040, Schedule A, you may be able to deduct expenses you paid in 2010 for medical care – including dental – for yourself, your spouse, and your dependents. Here are six things the IRS wants you to know about medical and dental expenses and other benefits. You may deduct only the amount by which your total medical care expenses for the year exceed 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income. You do this calculation on Form 1040, Schedule A in computing the amount...
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IRS Launches the IRS2Go App for iPhone, Android; Taxpayers Can Check Refunds, Get Tax Information Wow!! Uncle Sam is getting sophisticated on us, as the new generations will only know how to use this smart phones, so will the IRS. By Henry Aldana WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today unveiled IRS2Go, its first smartphone application that lets taxpayers check on their status of their tax refund and obtain helpful tax information. When I met Doug Shoulman two years ago at the IRS convention in Las Vegas, he gave a...
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Aldana & Associates is a boutique public accounting firm catering to the small business community.. 301-770-4901 Tax Experts, LLC is a personal income tax preparation firm. 1-888-770-4901 Did you know that your children may help you qualify for some tax benefits? Here are 10 tax benefits the IRS wants parents to consider when filing their tax returns this year. Dependents In most cases, a child can be claimed as a dependent in the year they were born. For more information see IRS Publication 501, Exemptions, Standard Deduction,...
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The Presidents Club is an initiative masterminded by Aldana & Associates, PSC, LTD in colaboration with the Executive Coaching LLC The Presidents Club is an organization designed to help executives in developing their leadership skills by interacting and networking with leaders management experts around the metropolitan area. Members of this prestigious group will participate in regularly scheduled seminars and networking sessions. There will … Read More via Aldana &...
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This is the Executive team that makes Aldana & Associates, PSC, LTD a monumental success.Thank you.. Henry Aldana Transcript of my seminar presentation at the Marriott Hotel at Tysons. Good morning everyone! Let’s hear that again, GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! That’s it! Let me hear the energy! Let me hear the enthusiasm! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVREYONE!! I know it’s been three weeks since the New Year but it’s never too late to wish for a better year. In fact, this is our theme for today TO HAVE A BETTER YEAR! To reach new...
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The Presidents Club is an initiative masterminded by Aldana & Associates, PSC, LTD in colaboration with the Executive Coaching LLC The Presidents Club is an organization designed to help executives in developing their leadership skills by interacting and networking with leaders management experts around the metropolitan area. Members of this prestigious group will participate in regularly scheduled seminars and networking sessions. There will be opportunity to benchmark, share best practices, and participate in book talks. Aldana and...
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Henry Aldana is the principal of Aldana & Associates, PSC, LTD , a boutique public accounting firm in the Washington metropolitan area catering to the small business community, Arista Law is a Law firm, Ed Arista is the managing attorney of Arista Law. If your business uses independent contractors as part of its work force, then depending on the circumstances, the IRS might reclassify these workers as employees. Such a reclassification could expose your business to employment taxes and penalties. In addition, your business might...
read moreTen Legal Issues to Raise with Your Clients this Tax Season
Tax season has started with a bang and with it the annual ritual of meeting with clients to close the year and prepare their tax returns. Rather than simply reacting to the avalanche of last minute information, I’m confident you will also leverage these interactions to encourage clients to consider proactive legal measures to protect their wealth and add value to their business. Henry Aldana is the principal of Aldana & Associates, PSC, LTD , a boutique public accounting firm in the Washington metropolitan...
read moreEl Poder de las Metas. Dies pasos para hacer sus metas.
“Hay que decir no a lo bueno para decirle si a lo mejor!” Henry O. Aldana “Puede ir a donde quiera, hacer lo que quiera y ser todo lo que quiera en la vida, cuando trace y siga sus metas” Zig Ziggler.. La mejor manera de diseñar nuestro futuro es creándolo, Cuando entendemos que somos los arquitectos de nuestras vidas tenemos el poder de diseñar nuestra vida, entonces sabemos que podemos diseñar nuestro futuro tal como lo deseamos. Hacer menos de lo que somos capaces estropea nuestra mente, por ejemplo, el libro...
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