The Recovering Hopper

“Your client is here,” the receptionist says to me. She’s a new client. I go up to greet her – let’s call her, oh, I don’t know, how...

Way back in December, on a whim, I listened to two one-hour podcasts on Bitcoin, figuring it might come into play for the upcoming tax se...

I’m just gonna float this on out. Haven’t heard it out there in that Matrix-like level of reality known as the Mainstream Media. Or any me...

But also an enjoyable and rewarding one. A little over a year ago, pondering what the hell I could do to earn some money without getti...

Warning: This post is not for the faint of heart. Or for 99.873% of mankind. Nor is it for anyone driving, operating heavy machinery, or i...

Ah, posting is sparse here because I’m in the final countdown with my tax training. In order to start preparing tax returns for the 2017 se...

When I was born the 1040 form for filing an individual income tax return sported 54 lines over its two pages and the instruction booklet p...