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Southern Illinois Accountant Reports On: “Financial Mistakes Hardly Anyone Talks About”

"The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves." - Robert Burton In the course of our daily work around here, we not only work with numbers a LOT ... but we also get a regular course on...

Newcomb’s Five Commitments For Marriage And Money

I'm going to start off this blog post with asking for a small favor -- would you take a few moments and leave an honest review on Yelp or Google Maps about your experience with us? And obviously, if you have NOT yet used our services for preparing your taxes or...

Fixing Your Credit Score: How Southern Illinois, IL Spenders Can Build Better Credit

We’re nearing the end of "extension season" around here at Bills Tax Service ... and it's been a doozy.With so many changes thrown at us, word on the tax professional street is there are going to be a lot of very tired and very grateful Southern Illinois, IL CPAs and...

COVID-19 Updates For Southern Illinois IL Taxpayers

I hope you're hanging in there. We're LOCKED in, helping our Southern Illinois IL clients, and I have a bunch of things to share with you today, based on recent activity.I will say that, between helping clients, and the astonishing rapidity of change, I'm not always...

4 Financial Goals Southern Illinois People Can Reach in 2023

I want to help you today. With your resolutions, that is.You see, if you take a look at the most common resolutions (lose 20lbs, work out more, quit smoking, read more & watch less, etc. etc. etc.) they’re all pretty similar – you might as well get out last year's...

Southern Illinois, IL Taxpayers It’s Time To Deal With Your 2020 Tax Return

We can't electronically submit tax returns to the IRS until Friday, February 12. Nobody can.But that doesn't mean we can't help you get started. In fact, we're already in process with a few Southern Illinois, IL clients, and more and more are contacting us every...

Alan Newcomb on NOT Automating Your Personal Finances

As we just celebrated our Independence Day, I think it's worth considering *financial* independence. But we should pause first in gratitude to Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum who, along with our armed forces, back in 1996 successfully repelled an alien invasion that was...

Financial Wisdom from Alan Newcomb’s Dad

The events of the past week or so have made some things clear, I think. There really are two different kinds of worlds ... well, perhaps more accurately, in this Internet Age, there are many little worlds that we can inhabit. And your state of mind really does get...

Easy Ways to Manage Money, Southern Illinois Strugglers

 Did you travel for spring break? I know it’s come and gone for most Southern Illinois families and college students. Maybe you traveled, maybe you didn’t, or maybe the nice weather has you planning for summer.You know when you’re returning home from a road trip...

Getting Your Mental State Out Of Fear And Anxiety By Alan Newcomb

I might be wrong, but I get the sense that many of my friends and clients in Southern Illinois IL are getting wiser about the dangers of our digital age.Because they are, indeed, quite real.There is a famous clip of an interview with NYT-bestselling author, and...

How You're Missing Legal Tax Deductions

Here’s a certain truth: the State and Federal Government would love to have more of your hard-earned money in their accounts. Sure, even though it’s painful, none of us begrudge paying our legal and fair share of taxes.
But the problem is that regular taxpayers, like you, are missing out on legal and safe deductions, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed refunds every year!

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