Business CPA Dallas AlternativeTax planning you can still do this year.

Owner pay and a large equipment purchase can still be set while this year is open.

See what is open
A brick corner on Elm Street in Deep Ellum, under a cloudy sky

See what is open

After 31 December those items can be reported. They can no longer be chosen.

Steven Palmieri writes two columns from your own figures, one for moves that still change this return and one for items that can wait.

Name the open choice

Steven Palmieri, Tax CFO

You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.

Three choices that close when the year closes

The choices are still real only while the year is open.

Owner pay can still be decided. Equipment can still be bought in a month we name. A light month can be finished on purpose so it does not stay unfinished into April.

Steven Palmieri keeps those books and prepares the return from them, as a Tax CFO, the Entrepreneur's CFO. A loan is not part of this help. A tax result is not promised.

Picture a request that asks for a page you do not have

Picture an owner holding a one page request. The request names a statement and a date. The file has a bank balance and a year of deposits, and it does not have the page the request describes.

The sketch above uses no client's name and no client's total. It only shows the shape of a request that asks for a page the file does not have. When the request is not an audit, a review, or a compilation, the work is building that missing page from the bank and the closed months.

The page the request assumed you had
What the request namedkept in your file
What the bank showskept in your file
What the books showkept in your file
The page still missingmissingkept in your file
Blank on purpose. A client's own file never appears on this page.

If the request needs a signature you cannot get here

An audit, a review, or a compilation is not a decision we can sign. That signature is named for a firm that can give it. The choices about the year can still be made with us.

What looking forward actually is

Tax planning here means naming the one decision that still changes this return, then leaving the settled months closed so April does not reopen them.

Finding an unclosed month in September leaves little room before the return. Closing it in September is a choice we can still make. Closing it in April is a story the return has to tell.

When a blue norther drops the temperature in an afternoon we feel it the same way you do, and the books do not get a day off because the sky turned.

The list is short on purpose. It names what still moves the year, and it leaves the rest for the return. You get it in writing so the last months of the year are not spent guessing.

A purchase timed in November still belongs to this year. The same purchase in January belongs to the next one. The list we write names which of those moves is still available on your file, and it names the ones the calendar has already closed.

Ask about the year while it is open

We will say which choices are still open on your file, and whether the request needs a firm that can sign it.

Steven Palmieri, Tax CFO

You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.

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