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Dubrow’s 8 Essentials For Record Keeping

  • May 4, 2015May 4, 2015
  • Skylar Dubrow, CPASkylar Dubrow, CPA
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Dubrow’s 8 Essentials For Record Keeping

I get pretty excited about the spring. All around the country, the snow is gone, the trees don’t seem so desolate … and am I right that the angle of the sun is a bit less harsh?

Or maybe it’s just because tax season has finished and I’m getting more sleep? 🙂

Well, I hope you and your family will have some “spring”

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Skylar Dubrow CPA Explores Five Markers of Financial Health at Mid-Life

  • April 27, 2015April 27, 2015
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Skylar Dubrow CPA Explores Five Markers of Financial Health at Mid-Life

If your tax returns have been filed (as most of our clients’ have), I do hope you’ve taken the ripe chance afforded to you to scrutinize your year, and your financial health. And, even if you’re on extension, it’s good to pause here before summer and consider where you’re headed — financially, and otherwise.

So, I thought that this could be the perfect time to help our Thousand Oaks tax preparation clients through a little check-up.

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Skylar Dubrow CPA Answers “Where’s My Refund?”, And Other Questions For After Your Return Is Filed

  • April 20, 2015April 20, 2015
  • Skylar Dubrow, CPASkylar Dubrow, CPA
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Skylar Dubrow CPA Answers “Where’s My Refund?”, And Other Questions For After Your Return Is Filed

This is never a very fun “holiday”, but it’s worth marking every year.

Friday, April 24th is our National “Tax Freedom Day” — that’s the date by which you’ve finally worked enough days just to pay off your taxes for the year. The rest of the year is your “take home” pay, as it were. 🙁

This date includes payroll taxes,

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A Heartfelt Thank You To Our Thousand Oaks Tax Preparation Clients

  • April 13, 2015April 13, 2015
  • Skylar Dubrow, CPASkylar Dubrow, CPA
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A Heartfelt Thank You To Our Thousand Oaks Tax Preparation Clients

The loudest thing I want you to hear from this post is this: THANK YOU for your trust, Thousand Oaks.

Our primary work for this tax season has just about wrapped up.

But notice I said “primary”, there … you see, unlike some tax professionals, we make it a point to do a bit more than simply “fill out forms”

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Confident and relieved that my taxes are in Skylar’s hands!

  • April 8, 2015April 8, 2015
  • Skylar Dubrow, CPASkylar Dubrow, CPA
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This is my fourth year having Skylar Dubrow prepare my taxes. Skylar is so organized, professional and detailed oriented. I always leave feeling confident and relieved that my taxes are in Skylar’s hands! I have referred my friends and family to Skylar at The Dubrow Group and they have all been thrilled as well! 5 Stars service for sure! Thank You

Emily Patasini
Westlake Village,

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Dubrow CPA’s Tax Extension Cheat Sheet

  • April 6, 2015April 6, 2015
  • Skylar Dubrow, CPASkylar Dubrow, CPA
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Dubrow CPA’s Tax Extension Cheat Sheet

This has been an intense tax season.

For those of us in the tax professional community, there have been emails, message board postings and blog posts flying about the difficulties that many have been facing with regards to all of the additional paperwork called for in the ACA (“Obamacare”) regulations — not to mention the normal round of new tax law changes that we saw.

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Skylar Dubrow CPA Shares On Overcoming Procrastination

  • March 30, 2015March 30, 2015
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Skylar Dubrow CPA Shares On Overcoming Procrastination

I’ve heard rumors that (for some unknown reason) many people don’t like to file taxes?

It appears that most folks do NOT like to fill out reams of paperwork only to finally discover how much money they are really giving to the IRS!

This, of course, is why we work so hard — to make this process as painless as possible,

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Skylar Dubrow CPA Reveals 6 Common Tax Preparation Mistakes That Could Get You Audited

  • March 23, 2015March 23, 2015
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Skylar Dubrow CPA Reveals 6 Common Tax Preparation Mistakes That Could Get You Audited

Spring has officially sprung and we’re working like busy bees on client tax returns these next few weeks before April 15th, and I would like to say: if you have not yet done so, we need to get your information to complete your return as soon as possible.

This has been a very busy season … so as much as you can enable us to do our work on your behalf,

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Once Again, Skylar Dubrow CPA’s 2015 Tax Time Document Chase List

  • March 16, 2015March 16, 2015
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Once Again, Skylar Dubrow CPA’s 2015 Tax Time Document Chase List

Brackets, brackets, brackets.

Depending on when you read this, you may have already filled yours out (or it may already be busted!). Billions fly around every year (probably much of it not reported on Form W-2G!), and it’s become a huge part of this season, as you no doubt know.

You know what else is a big part of this season?

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Skylar Dubrow CPA On Carving Away The Fear

  • March 2, 2015March 2, 2015
  • Skylar Dubrow, CPASkylar Dubrow, CPA
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Skylar Dubrow CPA On Carving Away The Fear

I wrote this piece a couple months ago to my business clients and colleagues, whom I keep in touch with outside of these “Personal Strategy Notes”, and I felt that as we turn the corner into March (and we’re staving off the lions, hoping for lambs), it was something that ALL of my contacts should hear.

It’s about how we process the world around us.

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