If you have not received your refund and your tax return was submitted more than 6-8 weeks ago, your check may have been sent back to the IRS. To find out the status of your refund(s) go to R&G Brenner’s, where’s my refund.

The Better Business Bureau, one of the country’s best known consumer watchdog groups, is being accused by business owners of running a “pay for play” scheme in which A plus ratings are awarded to those who pay membership fees, and F ratings used to punish those who don’t. To prove the point, a group of… Continue reading

Taxpayers are waiting on pins and needles for the important decisions regarding income tax cuts or increases to be made by Congress.  Will Bush’s tax cuts be extended or should taxpayers expect a surprise come tax time?  Congress reconvenes on November 15th and hopefully we can get some answers quickly.  Every year we wait for… Continue reading

The Internal Revenue Service has been plagued with phishing schemes in recent years.  Taxpayers beware that the IRS will never contact you via email, so anything that you receive via email that says it is from the IRS is actually not. Phishing, as it is called, is the act of sending an e-mail to a… Continue reading