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Menden’s Simple, 4-Step Plan For Organizing Your Financial Records
The events in Charleston last week have left all of us -- once again -- searching for answers to what feels like a festering wound simmering under the surface of our culture. But the grace notes we have seen coming from the hearts and mouths of survivors and family...
Roger Menden On What to Look For in an Executor of Estate
We work hard for our clients. Crafting elegant, tax-saving and easy-to-understand strategies to help you save on your taxes is a joy. And, of course, removing from our clients the annoying hassle of dealing closely with government paperwork, deadlines and personnel --...
Roger Menden Offers Practical Tips For Your Estate Plan
First off (and this doesn't necessarily affect all of our clients), just a quick reminder that the second quarter estimated taxes are due on June 15th. This is the quarter that always sneaks up on everyone, as it's only two months after April 15th -- so don't get...
Roger Menden Discusses 11 Traits of the Financially Secure
Part of my early-Monday news scan this week brought me this story: http://cbsn.ws/1Q0chAV. One of the "highlights": almost half of all US households could not come up with $400 to cover an emergency expense. They would need to sell something or borrow cash to do so....
Before You Say “I Do”: Roger Menden’s Marriage and Money Checklist
Memorial Day weekend often feels a little ... jarring, at times. Burgers, pools, picnics -- set against the solemn backdrop of remembrance for the sacrifice of so many thousands who have laid down their lives so we can have those freedoms. However, when you talk to...
Roger Menden on 5 MORE Bad Money Habits And How To Overcome Them (Part 2 of 2)
With all of the chaos that we are seeing bubble up around us, both in our nation and overseas, it can feel like everything is in flux. Please, though ... if you've established for yourself a hedge against financial turmoil, let's not have you ruin it. Last week, I...
Roger Menden Reveals 5 Ways We Avoid Keeping Better Money Habits
We spend a disproportionate amount of our time around the Team Menden offices dealing with government forms and websites. (Seriously though -- can you or I get a gig as a web designer for the government? Those contracts run in the 7 figures ... and the designs still...
Menden’s 8 Essentials For Record Keeping
I get pretty excited about the spring. All around the country, the snow is gone, the trees don't seem so desolate ... and am I right that the angle of the sun is a bit less harsh? Or maybe it's just because tax season has finished and I'm getting more sleep? 🙂 Well,...
Roger Menden Explores Five Markers of Financial Health at Mid-Life
If your tax returns have been filed (as most of our clients' have), I do hope you've taken the ripe chance afforded to you to scrutinize your year, and your financial health. And, even if you're on extension, it's good to pause here before summer and consider where...
Roger Menden Answers “Where’s My Refund?”, And Other Questions For After Your Return Is Filed
This is never a very fun "holiday", but it's worth marking every year. Friday, April 24th is our National "Tax Freedom Day" -- that's the date by which you've finally worked enough days just to pay off your taxes for the year. The rest of the year is your "take home"...
A Heartfelt Thank You To Our Shakopee, MN Tax Preparation Clients
The loudest thing I want you to hear from this post is this: THANK YOU for your trust, Shakopee, MN. Our primary work for this tax season has just about wrapped up. But notice I said "primary", there ... you see, unlike some tax professionals, we make it a point to do...
Menden’s Tax Extension Cheat Sheet
This has been an intense tax season. For those of us in the tax professional community, there have been emails, message board postings and blog posts flying about the difficulties that many have been facing with regards to all of the additional paperwork called for in...