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Houston Tax Preparation Tip: 5 Ways to Protect Your Identity This Season

With the tax season upon us, more scams are sure to happen in more sophisticated ways.

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Tax Preparation Tip: 4 Contributions You Can Still Make for 2015 Taxes

Yes, it is 2016 and any income or deductions you have after the first of the month must be claimed

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Houston Bookkeeping Tip: 5 New Year’s Resolutions You Should Make

With the New Year upon us, we’ll probably all vow to lose weight, exercise, and spend more time doing things

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Houston Bookkeeping Tip: 4 Ways Scammers Try to Steal Money From Seniors

We’ve previously warned you about a bookkeeping scam involving a Sheriff’s Department and found more info on related scams. These

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Houston Bookkeeping Alert: Sheriff’s Office Tax Scam

We’ve previously discussed bookkeeping and tax scams and have a brand new one to report. This one involves the alleged

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Houston Bookkeeping Tip: 6 Steps to Managing Petty Cash

Keeping track of petty cash is an important aspect of bookkeeping and small-business financial management. Those who fail to do

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Houston Bookkeeping Tip: 7 Ways to Save Money This Thanksgiving

It seems like just yesterday we were all scouring the stores and web for Halloween costumes that didn’t break the

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Bookkeeping Alert: Harris County Overcharges $30,000 for Property Tax

Any property owner in Houston or Harris county, be it residential or commercial, knows that the yearly notice from HCAD

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Bookkeeping Tip: Is Texas the Best State for Taxes?

Taxes can vary dramatically by city as well as by state, and since taxes are complex and highly changeable with

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7 Best Bookkeeping Blogs For Christian Personal Finance

We’ve recently shared the 7 Best Bookkeeping Blogs for Getting Out of Debt. For those of you looking to improve

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Houston Bookkeeping Tip: Tis the Season for IRS Scams

At B& J Bookkeeping and Taxes, we specialize in monthly bookkeeping and tax preparation. With tax time far behind us,

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Houston Bookkeeping Tip: 8 Ways to Save $1,000 or More in the Next Hour

According to Debt Roundup, Americans spend an average of $1.33 for every $1.00 they earn. With loans, credit card debt,

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Houston Bookkeepers Tip: Why High Income Clients Should Switch to a Roth IRA

Here at B&J Bookkeeping and Taxes, we love sharing tips on how to save money. However, we also love giving

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Houston Bookkeepers Tip: 7 Amazing Blogs for Student Money Management

We’ve recently discussed The 4 Ways to Pay for College and Why They Matter. Now that your scholar is in

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Houston Bookkeepers Tip: The 4 Ways to Pay for College and How They Matter

With a semester of college costing anywhere from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars, it can be enough to

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Bookkeeper Houston Tip: 7 Ways to Stop Junk Mail

We’ve previously discussed how to stop telemarketers. Now that the time suckers can’t come through your phone, it’s time to

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Bookkeeper Houston Tip: 5 Ways to Stop Telemarketers

It never fails: you’re in an important meeting, driving down the road late for something, or just sitting down to

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10 Worst Business Fails That Hurt Bookkeeping

We’ve all seen and remember those ads and products that never really took off that came from promising companies. How

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Why Do You Need Bookkeeping Services?

From balancing a check book to running a business, bookkeeping services are a huge part of all of it. Without

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Houston Bookkeepers Tip: 5 Ways to Get Free Stuff While Surfing

This site loves to share bookkeeping tips and ways to save money. However, we’ve recently found out that there are

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8 Bookkeeping Services Apps & Sites Your Business Must See

As this blog has often shared, bookkeeping service apps are an important part of keeping your business running while keeping

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Top 15 Small Biz Blogs to Help With Bookkeeping

Opening a small business in any place and any time can be a precarious venture. However, in today’s times of

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15 Reasons Bookkeeping Skills Should be Taught in Schools

We all know that schools are supposed to teach reading, writing, math, and other essentials, but what about the ability

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Houston Bookkeepers Tip: 10 Things Parents Should Know About Financial Aid

If you are the parent of a student in college, the next couple of years can be difficult.  To help

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Houston Bookkeepers Tip – 7 Amazing Online Accounting Tools for Small Businesses

We’ve previously discussed 8 places to get free bookkeeping forms and were amazed with the tons of free and paid

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Bookkeeping Tip: 8 Ways to Back up Files for Free

As this blog has often discussed, bookkeeping services are an important part of maintaining your business and paying your taxes.

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Bookkeeping in Houston – 6 Money Myths You Are Needlessly Stressing Over

As someone who performs professional bookkeeping in Houston, I get tons of questions on how to make and save money

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10 Funny Tax Preparation Quotes

The deadline to file your taxes is come and gone, but if you have completed all of your tax preparation

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Bookkeeping Services for Small Business: 9 Things Everyone Should Know

Without proper bookkeeping services, your small business is susceptible to both cash flow issues that can really cost you, but

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Bookkeeping Tip: 8 Top Free Expense Apps

Whether keeping records for your personal expenses or managing multiple employees with spending accounts, bookkeeping apps are a great way

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Tax Preparation Tip: Keep Thieves From Snagging Your Refund

With over $30 billion paid in tax refunds for the year 2013, the GAO (Government Accountability Office) estimates that 19

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Bookkeeping Tip: 8 Places to Get Free Bookkeeping Forms

Whether keeping detailed records for your small business or managing a multi-branch corporation, bookkeeping is an essential part of your

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Tax Preparation Hack: How to Add Thousands to Your Return

If you are in the middle of your tax preparation and owe more than you would like, fear not. There

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Tax Preparation Tip: What if You Can’t Pay Your Taxes

Those of you looking to avoid filing taxes are probably doing so because you fear you may owe the government

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