Should You Pay Off Your Mortgage Early?
For most of us, when we buy our first house, having a mortgage or not isn't really a decision we have to make. Few Americans, even high-income professionals, can afford to pay cash for a house. In f...
For most of us, when we buy our first house, having a mortgage or not isn't really a decision we have to make. Few Americans, even high-income professionals, can afford to pay cash for a house. In f...
As regular readers know, I have a home-based business, this blog. This last year I had a significant amount of income from it, and I try to reduce my taxable income as much as possible by finding leg...
By Dr. James M. Dahle, WCI Founder Mitt Romney took a lot of flack in the last election because his tax bill was only 14.1% of his income (despite the fact that he paid millions of dollars in taxes.) ...
Phil Mickelson might leave California due to their new millionaire tax. How much is "fair" anyway?
If there is anything I like less than taxes, it is stealth taxes. One such stealth tax was first instituted in 1990 under the direction of Congressman Donald Pease of Ohio. Remember this was during...
Q. What has changed now that Congress has averted the fiscal cliff? A. Now that the wrangling over the fiscal cliff is finally over, let's sort out exactly what happened and how it will affect doctors...
I wrote a few weeks ago about how I wasn't all that worried about an increase in the marginal tax rate on income over $250K, and that a lot of doctors shouldn't be worried either. After weeks of nego...
Q. Thanks for all the great sound advice. I am a MSK radiology fellow looking at two offers. One is a independent contractor and one as an employee. I am having a hard time comparing apples with orang...
[Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Tom Martin, CFP®, CPWA®, AIF® and Andrew Parker. They work for Larson Financial Group, LLC, a physician-focused financial advisory firm with numerous branch...
[Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Tom Martin, CFP®, CPWA®, AIF® and Andrew Parker. They work for Larson Financial Group, LLC, a physician-focused financial advisory firm with numerous branch...
There's a lot of talk from the White House and Capitol Hill about solving the "fiscal cliff" issue by preserving the tax cuts for "low and middle income folks" and raising them on "the rich", generall...
Learn about the safe harbor rule and how and why to do estimated tax payments while avoiding penalties and interest as an independent contractor.
My last post discussed how I recently made partner and how this has given me additional income, expenses, risk, and personal financial complexity. In this post, we'll discuss the ways becoming a part...
I recently became a partner in my small, democratic emergency medicine group. That's exciting to me because it gives me a say in how my group operates, more job security, and, best of all, a signific...
The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act (PPACA), affectionately known by its political opponents as Obamacare, survived its scare with the Supreme Court and its now time to examine it's impacts...