HAPPY NEW YEAR

I hope all of my readers had a very joyous Christmas holiday and I hope you are looking forward to a New Year filled with hope and promise.  Of course, the way to make those hopes and resolutions come true is to get out and make them happen.  You’ll never get what you truly want by sitting around.  You must take action!  Since this is the start of the New Year, we are thinking about filing taxes. In that regard I want to remind you that in order to take charitable deductions for cash contributions you must either have a bank record (canceled check), credit card receipt or a letter from the charity confirming your gift.  There are a lot of changes in the tax code for the 2018 tax year, so I encourage you to have your taxes prepared by a professional CPA, accountant or tax attorney.