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Tax Form 1099 Needs A Closer Look: Chances Are It’s Wrong

By Bill Purdy

tax form 1099

  Tax attorney Bill Purdy says:  don’t take IRS form 1099 at face value. Hundreds of thousands of taxpayers at this moment are looking at, or thinking about, Form 1099-A or Form 1099-C documents they have received. Some arrived in the tax year a debt was allegedly cancelled. Others are issued by financial instructions many […]

Filed Under: Featured, Taxes Tagged With: 2019, cancellation of debt tax, tax form 1099

Don’t Brag About What You Saved Unless It’s True

By Cathy Moran

saving spending

It’s a mark of our consumer economy that we use the word save in connection with our spending. I saved $15 on this blouse. That’s well and good for today.  You bought something you wanted, or maybe even needed. But unless you put the savings aside for later, you did nothing more than spend somewhat […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2018

Get The IRS To Feed Your Savings

By Cathy Moran

save refund

Lucky enough to get a tax refund this year? Then celebrate America Saves week by telling the IRS where to put it. I mean, where to deposit it. Refund jump starts savings A tax refund is the perfect place to boost your savings.  And you don’t have to choose between spending it all or saving […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2019, tax refund

Don’t Let The IRS File A Return For You

By Cathy Moran

SFR taxes

  Bankruptcy works lots of magic with tax debt, but the magic fizzles out when it comes to SFR’s. In my vocabulary, SFR is almost as doleful a phrase as KIA or DOA. Three times in 10 days, I’ve had to explain to clients that the taxes associated with an IRS Substitute For Return are […]

Filed Under: Featured, Taxes Tagged With: 2019

Mortgage Lenders Stop Lurking And Start Foreclosing

By Cathy Moran

old mortgage defaults

  I’m re-upping this post from nearly two years ago because I’ve seen a surge in foreclosure notices on old and irregular home loans.  There is equity now in those homes, so they are at risk of  foreclosure. They hadn’t paid the line of credit loan on their home for seven years. All was quiet […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2017

What Creditors Of PG&E Need To Know About Bankruptcy

By Wayne Silver

PG&E bankruptcy

Listen up if you’ve done business with PG&E, now or in the past. The PG&E bankruptcy affects you in varying ways, as we explore below. You have some important decisions to make, such as: Should you keep doing business with PG&E? If you do are you going to get paid? When? What about money PG&E […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2019, PG&E

10 Reasons Why Bankruptcy May Be Your Best Investment

By Cathy Moran

filing bankruptcy

There are compelling reasons to file bankruptcy and invest in a better future. Spend money to go broke? Seems counter-intuitive, but it could be the best money you spend. People in serious debt resist using bankruptcy to get their financial life in order for many reasons, including Yet, as a means of regaining control of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2019

Three Cheers For Entrepreneurs

By Cathy Moran

Entrepreneurs

Let’s hear it for entrepreneurs.  Those brave, tireless people with a dream who start or run small businesses. They possess more energy and perseverance than most of us.  They form the backbone of our economy. In honor of National Entrepreneurs Day, November 20th, let’s recap Soapbox’s best on being in business for yourself. It’s probably […]

Filed Under: Featured, Small business Tagged With: 2018

What This Lawyer Is Grateful For At Thanksgiving

By Cathy Moran

lawyer gives thanks

This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for the American judiciary and, particularly, for district court judges. In these turbulent political times, they’ve been confronted with hard questions arising out of swirling controversies. Their rulings would have national implications. Decisions were needed on short notice.  Partisans gathered on the sidelines, some assured of being bitterly disappointed however the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2018

Highlighted Tax Tips For Final Week To File Returns

By Cathy Moran

tax returns

We talk a lot about taxes here on the Soapbox.  That may seem a strange thing for a bankruptcy law firm to highlight. But it’s not strange when you realize that taxes are the cause of many of our clients’ financial problems. Filing date is barreling down on us. So, here’s a sampler of how […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2018

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Soapbox is a companion site to Bankruptcy in Brief, where I try to be largely explanatory and even handed (Note I said “try”).

Here, I allow myself to tell stories and express strong opinions. We dig deeper into how to consider bankruptcy and navigate a bankruptcy case.

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Cheat Sheet For Passing Bankruptcy Means Test

The bankruptcy means test has a fatal weakness in its attempt to keep people out of bankruptcy. Like so much recently, it's health care. It's health care, in the future, to be paid before your creditors get any money in your bankruptcy. It works because, in a logic that only Congress could employ, the means … Read more

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