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This Month's Topics
Home Office Benefits
Beginning in 1999,
Congress liberalized the home office rules to such an extent that
many home based businesses and especially network marketing
businesses can legally, morally and ethically claim the benefits of
the deduction. In fact, when I analyzed the numbers, the benefit of
claiming this deduction can result in thousands in your pocket every
year. Thus, if you have an accountant that states that this
deduction isn’t worth it, they don’t understand its immense benefit.

Give me a break!
Millions of
dollars in property tax breaks intended to preserve farmland are
going instead to companies that bulldoze farms to build housing
subdivisions, malls and industrial parks, an investigation has
found. It’s happening from coast to coast, costing local governments
badly needed revenue or forcing them to increase the taxes of other
property owners.

Unreliable Totally Useless Information
That's right,
it's time again for those facts that can't be verified but if true
are absolutely astounding!

Is the bloom coming off the REIT rose?
Real estate
investment trusts - companies that own things such as apartments,
offices and shopping centers, and distribute almost all their income
to investors in the form of dividends - have jumped 63 percent
overall since the end of 1999. During that same period, the Dow
Jones Industrial Average has fallen 9 percent.
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