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Should be OK, it's not political, I think. Just good, old fashioned advice. Thanks Elrod.

How true, no one wants a rotten kid.

Just like when media people assumed that a candidate did not pay any taxes of any kind for 20 years because of a loss on one return. This is my face when anybody, any profession besides this one, either party, tries to explain taxes. They can't. They don't know.

That will be sweet if that law passes. Do you own a house? NO Do you have a letter from your church for donations? NO. "Then you will get the standard deductions... please put away that CVS bag full of receipts"

Well, yes, @Jack from Ohio - but there are also times we need to plan *anyway*. New baby, someone who expects their s-corp to do way better in 2017 (maybe they have a signed contract with payment schedule), maybe they inherited dad's mutual funds and know roughly how much more in dividends and interest to expect, get laid off mid-summer and severance package runs through end of September... and folks want to make sure they won't have a huge bill next April. All we can do is our best, with caveats about changes to come. But we still have to help with the planning.