How the Elite Live Well in a Recession with ‘Recession Core’

The wealthy have always been able to weather economic storms, but the economic downturn of the past decade has seen a new trend emerge – the wealthy are now embracing recess... Read More

Finance

Get your tax papers in order

It is important to know what to keep, when to get rid of it, and how to do both

By Jesus Guevara

The deadline to file taxes this year is coming up soon, but you don’t want to wait to file. Something you may not know is that even those who owe the IRS can finish and file ... Read More

Finance

W-2s and how-to’s for refund season

By Jesus Guevara

Now that taxpayers have their W-2s in hand — employers needed to issue them by Jan. 31 — it’s time to file. But this season, taxpayers have to deal with increased tax ide... Read More

Business, Finance

Watch your mailboxes

’Tis the season — important tax documents arrive

By Jesus Guevara

If in doubt, don’t throw it out. Taxpayers should remember these words when a document shows up in their e-mail or traditional mailbox and they wonder if they will need it to... Read More

Business, Finance

Phone the home

By John Zipperer

One day, about 15 years ago, my father told me about his desire to write a book about how to conduct a small business. My father was a piano tuner, traveling every day to his loyal... Read More

Finance

Try these tax tips to save money, boost refund

By JESUS GUEVARA

Taxpayers still have time left to influence their tax future. Many taxpayers can do something to lower their tax liability with these tax tips. 1. TO SAVE MONEY, SAVE MONEY One way... Read More

Finance

Representation without taxation

By Alan Silverman

On Dec. 16, 1773, demonstrators boarded ships in Boston Harbor and threw chests of tea into the water. This was the culmination of the resistance movement against the taxation of t... Read More

Finance

All that twitters isn’t gold

By Alan Silverman

On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call — to his assistant in the adjoining room — uttering the immortal words, “Mr. Watson, come here, I w... Read More

Business, Finance

Celebrating small business

By Jim Maxwell

May brings spring flowers, and also the annual San Francisco Small Business Week. While National Small Business Week does not begin until June, here in the City where we love our u... Read More

Finance

Mind the Gap!

By Alan Silverman

The London Underground Railway System (lovingly known as The Tube) opened in 1863 and soon carried about 25,000 passengers a day. It now carries more than 1 billion passengers per ... Read More

Finance

Too big to jail?

Why crime still pays

By Alan Silverman

Willie Sutton was a famous bank robber who is alleged to have said, in response to a question asking why he robbed banks, “Because that’s where the money is.” Whe... Read More

Finance

Free assistance in preparing your taxes

Tax Season

By Assembly Member Phil Ting

It’s March, which means the deadline for filing your personal income tax returns is just around the corner. Tax Day, April 15, will be here sooner than you think. It’s ... Read More

Finance

As San Francisco leads a new economic upswing in the state, it’s time to act unnaturally

By John Zipperer

The $25 million man, as I called him, was the symbol of California’s boom-or-bust economy. In the early 1990s, when California was struggling through one of its cyclical bust... Read More

Finance

Chutzpah: Businessmen behaving badly

By Alan Silverman

Chutzpah is a Yiddish word that does not have a simple English synonym. It combines the concepts of insolence, gall and audacity. An example is the young man who murdered both his ... Read More

Finance

Frothy coffee: Letting off steam

By Alan Silverman

The U.K. Parliament recently held hearings concerning the amount of tax paid in the U.K. by the subsidiaries of international companies. They called on Starbucks, Google and Amazon... Read More

Finance