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Category Archives: Finance
Children: Your Most Valuable Employees and Write-Off
by Mark J. Kohler, CPA, Attorney at Law This has to be one of the most under utilized tax strategies by small business owners with families today. Many don’t realize that paying their children under age 18, as well as … Continue reading
Issues to Consider when “Partnering”
by Mark J. Kohler, CPA, Attorney at Law The Partnership Agreement and setting up the proper entity/structure for the partnership is the single most important step in the partnership process, maybe even more important than analyzing the merits of the … Continue reading
5 Facts about The IRS and Mortgage Debt Forgiveness
by Mark J. Kohler, CPA, Attorney at Law If your mortgage debt is partially or entirely forgiven during tax years 2007 through 2012, you may be receiving a 1099-C in the mail. Regrettably, this is a phone call from my … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Finance
Tagged 1099-C, IRS, mortgage, Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, personal debt, refinance, rental property, second homes
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Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution
By Amory Lovins Capitalism is supposed to be the productive use of and reinvestment in capital. But what is capital? There are several kinds, but industrial capitalism deals only with two: money and goods. There are at least two more, … Continue reading
Posted in Finance
Tagged Armory Livins, capitalism, ecology, environment, global economy, hydrogen-powered cars, natural capital, renewable energy, society, waste
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Solar Energy Rising
Recently, I received a little membership token from the American Solar Energy Society, a window sticker that reads…”The Solution Comes Up Every Morning”. Funny how something so predictable and taken for granted is one of the most obvious answers to our energy needs. Here in New Mexico, the land of lavish sunshine, many innovative architects and builders experimented with new design approaches that were highlighted by passive solar innovations. Continue reading
Posted in Finance
Tagged BedZED, electric cars, emissions, environment, Faren Dancer, New Mexico, renewable energy, solar energy, Solar Tax Credit
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Eight Real Solutions To Our Debt Dilemma
The bottom line for most people, whatever the talk of the national economy and unemployment rates, is what our personal debt level is. Our personal debt greatly and negatively impacts our ability to live consciously and age wisely. Debt is a form of servitude that is hard to escape from. So here we examine eight practical and achievable steps we can all take starting today to reduce our personal debt and regain our freedom. Continue reading
Five Real Estate-Mortgage Tips to Financially Come Out on Top in 2011
So it’s 2011 – Now what do we do?
Move forward with confidence that things will get better. Here are five tips to begin the decade so that you may finish on top with your personal finances as they relate to real estate and mortgages. Continue reading
Posted in Editor's Picks, Finance
Tagged Housing Affordability Index, interest rates, mortgage, personal finances, real estate, refinance
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Old Math, New Math, Washington Math…2+2 Should Still = 4
Too many countries, including our own, appear “to have made financial commitments that are significantly greater than their fiscal capacities.” I stress the word ‘appear’ because although anyone who has ever done a budget understands that when expenditures exceed income debt results, no one knows – at least from the perspective of the well being of the planet and of the species that reside here – whether debt and what amount of it is a good or bad thing. As we examine the issues we need to consciously decide what kind of nation we want America to be so that we can then decide how to make this re-envisioned nation a reality. Continue reading
Posted in Finance
Tagged Bush Tax Cuts, economics, George Cappannelli, global economy, national debt, politics, Ronald Reagan, special interests, taxes, Trickle-Down Economics, values
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Keynes vs Friedman (Part Two), How This Economic Debate Is Currently Impacting Europe & Will Soon Impact The U.S.
In this ‘monkey see, monkey do” world of ours, the heated argument between proponents of the Keynesian and Friedman economic schools that has been going on for decades may have been settled (at least for the foreseeable future) as one European country after another seem, like dominos, to be abandoning government stimulus efforts in favor of major budgetary cutbacks and betting the farm that the free market will right the ship. Continue reading
Posted in Finance
Tagged British economy, European economy, France, Freidman, George Cappannelli, Ireland
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