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Fighting Past Wars

Posted on February 7, 2020 by jeffbellamy / 0 Comment

Well into my adult life I continued to have dreams that I was in High School. When I would get in trouble I would say “I don’t care I’m 56R...

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Another way to look at it.

Posted on May 20, 2019 by jeffbellamy / 0 Comment

For me, determining where people were on the political scale was a matter of how they felt about the poor. At one end we had “people are poor because they...

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A line on a piece of paper

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jeffbellamy / 0 Comment

Take a piece of paper and draw a line horizontally across the middle (side to side like the horizon). This is your financial success calculator. If you have eno...

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The Monty Hall Problem

Posted on April 16, 2016 by jeffbellamy / 0 Comment

This is a probability problem which most people get wrong. Monty presents three doors. Behind two doors there are Goats. Behind the other there is a New Car. Yo...

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Why do people owe the IRS? Identity Theft.

Posted on January 4, 2016 by jeffbellamy / 0 Comment

Identity Theft is a Big Deal with Billions of dollars per year being paid out in fraudulent refunds. So you file your tax return and everything seems fine. What...

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Why do people owe the IRS? Failure to file

Posted on January 4, 2016 by jeffbellamy / 0 Comment

What happens when you fail to file your tax returns? Every year the IRS receives W-2s and 1099s representing wages and other incomes which you have received. Th...

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Why do people owe the IRS? Under Withholding & Retirement Accounts

Posted on January 4, 2016 by jeffbellamy / 0 Comment

If your employer is withholding money for income taxes from your check how do you end up owing the IRS. Your employer withholds based on the information you pro...

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Why do people owe the IRS? Self Employed part 2

Posted on January 3, 2016 by jeffbellamy / 0 Comment

So the Self Employed can owe the IRS because they didn’t make sufficient Estimated Tax payments. The Self Employed use a Schedule C to declare their incom...

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Why do people owe the IRS? Self Employed

Posted on January 2, 2016 by jeffbellamy / 0 Comment

I am an Enrolled Agent and have represented hundreds of people with Power of Attorney before the IRS. This had led me to think about why people owe. Today we...

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A little and a little

Posted on December 31, 2015 by jeffbellamy / 0 Comment

If you use the power of “a little and a little” many things aren’t as hard as you might think. Just consider how effortless it is to make a me...

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