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News For Your Week Ahead: February 16, 2021

New COVID Relief Law Now Signed | Checks Start This Week The Maryland Legislature passed Governor Larry Hogan’s Maryland RELIEF Act of 2021 this past Friday and the bill was signed into law on Monday, February 15. Beginning TODAY, Tuesday, February 16, Comptroller Peter Franchot and the staff of the Comptroller’s Office will begin processing more than $200 million …
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News For Your Week Ahead: February 15, 2021

IRS, Summit Partners Issue Urgent EFIN Scam Alert to Tax Professionals | IR-2021-34 The IRS, state tax agencies, and tax industry warned tax professionals of a new scam email that impersonates the IRS and attempts to steal Electronic Filing Identification Numbers (EFINs). The Security Summit partners said the latest scheme, arriving just before the start of …
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Working From Home: Why is my internet so slow?

While working from home shortens the commute, you may be wondering why is my internet access moving slower than when I was at the office? The answer to your question is your internet bandwidth. While many companies have a larger internet bandwidth at work you may not have the same at home. Many of us …
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#TechTips – Compliance Lives!

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA You know you’ve been around for a while when the stuff you were taught in school is later found to be incorrect. Case in point, Pluto is not a planet. My very educated mother just served us noodles, instead of nine pizzas. Some people take offense to this; as if Pluto, …
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Expanding or Downsizing a Practice During a Pandemic

Over the past year, practitioners have had to deal with a deadly pandemic, a flood of PPP loans from business clients along with the normal rigors of running a practice. Many of you may face the loss of business clients that will not survive the pandemic. Other practitioners, nearing retirement, may finally say “no mas” …
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News For Your Week Ahead: February 8, 2021

The Maryland Association of CPA’s Announces Appointments of Tom Hood and Jackie Brown The Maryland Association of CPAs’ Board of Directors is proud to announce that Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA, is joining the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association) as executive vice president of business engagement and growth. Hood, who has served …
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Posture: Remember Being Told Sit Up Straight?

In our previous post we gave 3 tips and tricks on maintaining a healthy work-life balance while working from home. We would like to continue this week on providing further tips, as it pertains to maintaining good posture. I recall in grade school being told over and over to “sit up straight.” Now more than …
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#TechTips – The Sky is Falling!

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA It seems that the world ends at the start of each new tax season. We go to our usual cycle of continuing ed classes, which, as an aside, I have to say that seeing Bob J and Bill L go at each other over the webinars is one of the most …
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#TechTips: SurePrep & TaxCaddy, Pt II

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA Two years ago, if you can believe it (where does the time go?), we covered a series of cloud based apps in the initial cycle of this blog. We’ll now revisit some of them to see which ones work, which ones didn’t, and mark an essential truth about cloud accounting: Gone …
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Maintaining a Healthy Work-Life Balance During COVID-19

Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic many professionals have found themselves at home for an extended amount of time. Achieving a good work-life balance takes careful thought and planning to avoid increased amounts of stress and burnout in your work. Before the pandemic we found it much easier to switch off work as we would …
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