Bookkeeping Reduces Taxes If You Pay Attention

I am often asked the question “How can I reduce my taxes?” There are many specific and technical things that one can do to reduce their personal income taxes such as retirement savings plans, donations, tax-free savings accounts, and the type of investments one holds. For the business (read on...)

How to Capture the Opportunities to Reduce Your Taxes

Knowing how your daily activities can reduce your taxes is a great start to actually reducing your taxes. Once you’ve done this, it’s time to make sure the opportunities you’ve identified actually reduce your taxes and the best way to do this is with your (read on...)

A History of Taxes – Part 2

Taxes and Romans Finally moving away from the Greeks, we now come to the Romans. Scholars often refer to Roman taxation as “more or less organized robbery” and Roman tax men as “a band of robbers.” But Roman taxation was not always bad. There was a two hundred year period (read on...)

A History of Taxes – Part 1

Taxes and Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was not a land of cruel taskmasters and oppressed slaves – that’s the impression we get from the story of Moses – which came at a time of unrest in Egypt. Modern translations of hieroglyphics indicate that life in ancient Egypt was usually (read on...)