Perhaps it's because of the craziness of the past year and a half, maybe it’s the local Paducah the weather ... but for some reason, the holiday season has caught us off guard over here at M Dean Owen, CPA, PSC. Wasn’t it just the end of summer the other day?This year...

Are we out of the inflation hole yet? (A curious mind wants to know…)Well, according to the Fed, they’re waiting a little bit longer to confirm that. The good news for now is no new interest rate hikes and maybe even some cuts down the road. That spells good...

Events are happening fast in tax world, and we are VERY busy here at M Dean Owen, CPA, PSC. But this is a good thing -- we've been preparing for this season all year, and we love to serve.We knew that there would be unexpected curve balls this year, but "rewriting the...

To be fair, the new $600 reporting requirement for digital payment apps isn't a Venmo thing ... it's an IRS thing.(Personally, I'm still amazed by how people share their transactions so publicly on these kinds of platforms. But that's a topic for another day.)And I...

The longest day of the year (Sunday the 20th) is next week, the official start of summer. We're taking our cues from the season and steadily working through extensions and year-round planning moves.AND we're also finding ourselves helping some Paducah people who...

This week, my staff and I are pausing to celebrate that the chapter has closed on 2022’s filing. It was probably over for you back in April, but my team just wrapped that up for some of our Paducah clients who needed to file extensions. Of course, we’ll be...

Before I get you thinking about the new year and being tax savvy in it, let’s first address the 2023 tax filing season which is fast approaching. It’s a good idea to go ahead and get on my schedule now to handle your 2023 tax filing. Though the IRS doesn’t...

Now that 2021 tax returns are completely in the rearview (although we can always make amendments!), and only a few months of the 2022 version remain, it’s time to kick your “tax optimization” strategies into full gear. And look – yes, I’m a professional at this...

When the holidays straddle the weekends into Monday, regular routines can be a little choppy. Feels like a blur between December 24th and January 1st.Here at Team M Dean Owen, CPA, PSC, we're finalizing a lot of year-end moves for various Paducah clients (as I write...

I'll tell you what... The month of May is beginning to look a lot like December. Definitely not because it's cold out there, but with so much "end of school year" stuff happening these days, from graduation parties (ranging from pre-k "graduations" all the way up...