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Year End Tax Planning III

Registered Retirement Savings Plan contributions to be deductible for 2015 do not need to be made by December 31, 2015. …
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Year End Tax Planning II

Shares with unrealized capital losses in your investment portfolio must be sold in order to use the loss.  The shares…
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Year End Tax Planning I

A number of items are deductible only if they are actually paid. An example is a charitable donation.  For a…
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Nicholas Winton

I discovered Nicholas Winton this week.  I had never heard of him before.  In 1939 he saved 669 Czechoslovakian children…
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Taking Security

In 1999 we suggested that if you had a shareholder loan to your company, you should secure it with a…
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I Don’t Know

The wise man knows he doesn’t know. The fool doesn’t know he doesn’t know. – Lao Tzu, author of Tao…
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Playing at Work

At Lazer Grant, we don’t just work.  We play.  We play games to win.  And when we win we get…
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Keeping a Confidence

I recall reading in The Ethicist, a column in The New York Times Magazine, about a doctor who had agreed…
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Being Creative

I have always admired those who can create. The process of starting from nothing and ending up with something is…
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Too Much of a Good Thing

How would you like your workplace to be?  Would you like to have independence there?  Would you like it to…
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Robots

We have a robot.  We call him Sheldon.  His cousins have been on The Big Bang Theory, NCIS: Los Angeles…
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Personal Retreats – Thanks, Walt

It’s been a long time since I wrote about personal retreats. Click the links to read my previous articles:  A…
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