Business Taxes

Tax Memo: December 23, 2019

Would you believe that Spotify offers over a million Christmas songs? There’s something for every taste. The best of them, like Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti's magnificent "O Holy Night," are sublime evocations that lift the human spirit. Some, like Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You," are banal background noise for department store Santas. And some, like Paul McCartney's "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time," are just a lump of coal in your stocking.

IRS Black Friday Savings?

This week brings us the most quintessentially American of all holidays. It's the one we wait for all year, the one that truly captures those ideals that bind us together as a nation, and the one that bridges the cultural and political gaps that threaten to tear us apart. We're talking, of course, about Black Friday, that glorious bacchanalia of year-end binge-buying. If Thanksgiving is a chilled glass of dry white wine, and Christmas is a flute of sparkling champagne, then Black Friday is the Jaeger-bomb that gets the party rolling!