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Issue 622-Why Does Everybody Try to Please Everyone Else?

Issue 621-Finding Value

Issue 620-What's A "Ponzi Scheme?"

Issue 619-The Hardest Part is Always Saying Goodbye

Issue 618-Good Morning, The Offices of David Robinson. Check the Oil Ma'am?

Issue 617-Unlimited Visibility

Issue 616-Future Business Leaders: Student Workers and Interns

Issue 615-Just Being Myself

Issue 614-Friendship Breakage and Flashover

Issue 613-Captain Edward John Smith of the RMS Titanic: What Was He Doing April 15th?

Issue 612-Classical Escapism

Issue 611-I Still Haven't Good Enough at Preparing Taxes to Do Them by Mind-Reading

Issue 610-Playing by the Rules in an S-Corporation

Issue 609-Struggle Every Day to Stay Small

Issue 608-Being Too Busy for Customers

Issue 607-Theme Songs

Issue 606-Important Moments and the Beginning and the End

Issue 605-Do Your Homework and Write That Term Paper!

Issue 604-Some Famous Highly-Successful Entrepreneurs

Issue 603-Dads, Entrepreneurialism and Grace

Issue 602-The Adam Smith Institute and Others About a Flat Tax

Issue 601-Adam Smith

Issue 600-One More Milestone

Issue 599-Final Home Sale Exclusion Regulations, Late IRA Rollover Relief, Student Loan Interest.

Issue 598-Deducting Sales Tax, Giving Vehicles to Charity, Continuing the Child Tax Credit.

Issue 597-Like Kind Exchanges and Lawsuit Settlements

Issue 596-Sport Utility Vehicle Rules Change

Issue 595-2004 Tax Law Developments

Issue 594-Regional Leadership By and For Real People

Issue 593-Regional Cooperation

Issue 592-I've Learned A Lot in a Year

Issue 591-Right There On My Forehead

Issue 590-You CAN Control Your Day

Issue 589-Aren't We All Teachers

Issue 588-Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

Issue 587-Let There Be Light

Issue 586-The Next Best Thing that Richmonders Need is a Lighthouse - Really! At Least in 1802 That Was the Case.

Issue 585- Focus on the Target and the Big Problems

Issue 584- Being Too Busy for Customers

Issue 583- Creating a Market

Issue 582- Support the Arts

Issue 581- Start Early to Grow Your Child into an Entrepreneur

Issue 580- One of the Best Things I've Ever Done

Issue 579- Portable Toilets

Issue 578- Cold Stone Creamery

Issue 577- Theme Songs

Issue 576- Too Many Sales Calls

Issue 575- People are the Product

Issue 574- Triangles

Issue 573- A Gentleman Always Does the Kind Thing

Issue 572- Graduation Day

Issue 571- One 1980 Dollar to the College Republicans (By Check)

Issue 570- A Sharper Focus

Issue 569- Diagnosing and Assigning Introverts and Extroverts

Issue 568- Run with the Little Guy

Issue 567-Target Market Definition

Issue 566-The K.I.S.S.S. Principle

Issue 565-Your Signature is Your Lasting Imprint

Issue 564-The Treasury Secretary Speaks About a Flat Tax!

Issue 563- Shouldn't Friendship and Mentorship Be Forever?

Issue 562- I Still Haven't Gotten Good Enough at Preparing Taxes To Do Them By Mind-Reading.

Issue 561-Being in Debt

Issue 560-Staying Motivated

Issue 559-Some People Look for Ways to Create Fire

Issue 558-Struggle Every Day to Stay Small

Issue 557-Every Existing Chesterfield Resident Will Pay $5,300 to Subsidize Each of 18,300 New Homes. Yes, that's $97 Million Dollars!

Issue 556-Doomed from the Start

Issue 555-Pet Projects of Successful People

Issue 554-Home-Based Multi-Level Marketing

Issue 553-Stand Up for What You Believe In

Issue 552-Full Disclosure

Issue 551-The Ghosts of Ivymont

Issue 550-Lots of People Start Businesses but the Best Ones Write Great Term Papers

Issue 549-Beginning of the Year Tax Thoughts

Issue 548-End of Year (2003) Tax Thoughts

Issue 547-The Framers Felt It Important Enough to Make it the First One

Issue 546-Start a Radio Show

Issue 545-Luck Favors the Prepared Mind

Issue 544-Get Involved with Charitable Boards

Issue 543-Salary versus Profit

Issue 542-Rates, AMT and the Marriage Penalty

Issue 541-Being a Mail Connoisseur

Issue 540-Eagles and Pigeon Goo

Issue 539-We The People

Issue 538-David Bruce Robinson, CPA's List of What All Citizens Should Do to Participate in the Political Process

Issue 537-One Big Problem is a Bunch of Little Ones

Issue 536-Septembers and Octobers

Issue 535-The Power of the Postcard

Issue 534-Business Love is Looking Out After People, Part Two

Issue 533-Business Love is Looking Out After People, Part One

Issue 532-Laying Down in Front of Client Problems

Issue 531-"Among the Heros" by Jere Longman

Issue 530-A Sense of Urgency

Issue 529-Competing Against Yourself. Look in the Mirror to Find your Fiercest Rival.

Issue 528-Which Comes First; The Friendship or The Loyalty. And, By The Way, Which Lasts?

Issue 527-Being Organized to Stay Small

Issue 526-Entrepreneurialism is Under The Lost Sock

Issue 525-Speed, Decision Making, Reassessment and Speed Bumps

Issue 524-My Uncle George

Issue 523-A Zebra Can Sometimes Change His Stipes

Issue 522-The Right Thing at the Right Time

Issue 521-Which Came First, the Donkey or the Elephant?

Issue 520-Pennywise and Poundstupid

Issue 519-A Diamond of an Employee

Issue 518-A Political Snowstorm

Issue 517-When Educated Gentlemen Dressed Up Like Indians

Issue 516-Josh Doesn't Let People Go

Issue 515-Never Be A Stick-In-The-Mud--Be A Roy or Mike!

Issue 514-Do All Businesspeople Get Calls From Their Past?

Issue 513-Time to Announce a Redirection of TaxFax™

Issue 512-Future Business Leaders

Issue 511-Best Friends and the Office in the Late 1960s and 1970s

Issue 510-Dads and Future Entrepreneurs

Issue 509-Good Morning. The Accounting Office of David Robinson, This is April

Issue 508-No W-2? Here's What To Do!

Issue 507-Some Basic Tax Tips

Issue 506-Loaning Money to Family Members

Issue 505-KEOGH Plans

Issue 504-The SBA is Here To Help

Issue 503-Philanthropy

Issue 502-Preparing for Life's Emergencies

Issue 501-Borrowing Carefully

Issue 500-Tax Fax - Our 500th Issue

Issue 499-Refinancing

Issue 498-Fixing Your Credit Woes

Issue 497-New Years Resolutions

Issue 495-Giving Stock to Charity

Issue 494-Financial Planning

Issue 493-Budget Is Not A Four Letter Word

Issue 492-Year End Tax Strategies

Issue 491-College Savings Options

Issue 490-Mentoring, It's Not Just for Kids

Issue 489-Protect Yourself from Telephone Scams

Issue 488-Fair Debt Collection Act

Issue 487-Coping with Layoffs

Issue 486-Family Business

Issue 485-Important Lessons from Big Time Entrepreneurs

Issue 484-Section 529 College Savings Plans

Issue 483-Is Your Business in Trouble?

Issue 482-Drug Free Workplace

Issue 481-Credit Unions

Issue 480-Bond Investment

Issue 479-Mutual Funds

Issue 478-Do You Need an Ad Agency

Issue 477-Choosing Health Care Coverage

Issue 476-Establishing a Retirement Plan

Issue 475-Borrow From Your Corporation

Issue 474-Securing Funds

Issue 473-Choosing The Right Location

Issue 472-Human Behavior vs. Stock Behavior

Issue 471-Put Your Market Worries To Rest

Issue 470-Investing in the Current Markets

Issue 469-Ways to Cut Costs on Long Term Care Insurance

Issue 468-Household Help- Are They Employees Too?

Issue 467-Vacation Homes and the Tax Relief They Bring

Issue 466-Long-Term Care Insurance

Issue 465-Investments

Issue 464-Strategies for When Retirement Day Arrives

Issue 463-Retirement

Issue 462-Strategies to Save on Next Years Taxes

Issue 461-The Effects of Taxes on Children

Issue 460-Real Estate and Taxes

Issue 459-What Do We Do Now? (That April 15th has come and gone)

Issue 458-Start Planning Ahead

Issue 457-IRS Attractions

Issue 456-Emergency Last Minute Stuff.. To Help Your Friend With

Issue 455-To Have an Ira or Not To Have An Ira, That Is The Question

Issue 454-Procrastinating Entrepreneurs

Issue 453-Choosing Accounting Software

Issue 452-Succession Planning

Issue 451-Managing Cash Flow

Issue 450-Saving Money in Old Cities

Issue 449-Website Security

Issue 448-Finding Good Information Technology Help

Issue 447-Tax Law Changes

Issue 446-Long-Term Care Insurance

Issue 445-Technology Tune-up

Issue 443-Charitable Giving

Issue 442-Senior Citizen Tax Relief

Issue 441-Homeowner Tax Breaks

Issue 440-Valuable Tax Deductions Part II

Issue 439-Valuable Tax Deductions

Issue 438-Getting Started

Issue 437-Small Business Insurance Mistakes

Issue 436-Interviewing Job Candidates

Issue 435-Leadership Lessons

Issue 434-Business Plans

Issue 433-Effective E-marketing

Issue 432-In Case of Disaster

Issue 431-Small Business Audits

Issue 430-Auto Deductions

Issue 429-Refinancing Your Mortgage

Issue 428-Financial Compatibility

Issue 427-Education Tax Relief

Issue 426-Information About Trusts

Issue 425-Estate Planning

Issue 424-Using a Debit Card

Issue 423-Managing Your Money Online

Issue 422-Motivating Your Team

Issue 421-Saving Money - Part 2

Issue 420-Saving Money

Issue 419-Small-Cap Stocks

Issue 418-Tax-Efficient Portfolios

Issue 417-Paying Young Employees

Issue 416-Financing For Risky Times

Issue 415-On-Line Investing

Issue 414-Loans On Your Terms

Issue 413A-Special Edition: Have You Heard? The IRS Will Be Sending A Check

Issue 413-Money-Market Funds

Issue 412-The Cost Of Auto Insurance

Issue 411-More Planning For 2001 Taxes

Issue 410-Plan Now For 2001 Taxes

Issue 409-Plan Ahead For Retirement

Issue 408-Purchasing Disablility Insurance

Issue 407-Trading Methods To Avoid Taxes

Issue 406-Several Ways To Pay Your Income Tax Bill

Issue 405-Real Estate Tax Tips

Issue 404-Children and Taxes

Issue 403-Before You Take Out A Loan

Issue 402-Ways To Avoid Debt

Issue 401-Save Every Month

Issue 400-Defining A Strategy

Issue 399-Five Questions To Ask Before You Buy Any Investment

Issue 398-Mistakes Made By Beginning Investors

Issue 397-Create Value With Fixed Assets

Issue 396-Fly Solo Or Choose A Partner?

Issue 395-Business-To-Business Shopping Online

Issue 394-Golden Ideas To Improve Your Business

Issue 393-Direct Mail Marketing Techniques That Work

Issue 392-Attaining Success In The Online Market

Issue 391-Final Year 2000 Thoughts

Issue 390-Online Investing

Issue 389-Capital Gains Advanced Topics

Issue 388-Capital Gains Basics

Issue 387-IRS Service Center Reorganization

Issue 386-Bush or Gore?

Issue 385-Long-Term Care Insurance

Issue 384-Flexible Spending Accounts

Issue 383-Life Insurance Basics

Issue 382-If You Have Waited Too Late To Start Saving For Retirement

Issue 381-Social Security- Part Two

Issue 380-Social Security- Part One

Issue 379-Preventing Financial Disaster During Divorce

Issue 378-Banking And Bill Paying Over The Internet

Issue 377-Buy Or Lease? Make The Best Choice

Issue 376-Borrow Money The Smart Way!

Issue 375-Which Direction Will Your Business Travel Next?

Issue 374-Cut Taxes While Paying For An Education

Issue 373-What Auto Insurers Never Tell You

Issue 372-Managing Your Health Care Costs

Issue 371-College: A Bottomless Pit To Throw Money Into

Issue 370-Investment Tips to Cut Your Personal Finance Costs

Issue 369-Bargaining With The Best of 'Em

Issue 368-Financial Fraud: A Crisis Of Identities

Issue 367-Conserve Energy And Save Big

Issue 366-House Hunting

Issue 365-Buying A New Home

Issue 364-Fly The Friendly Skies: Save On Airfare

Issue 363-Find The Freebies

Issue 362-How To Complain Tactfully And Effectively

Issue 361-Tax Tips For Movers

Issue 360-Great Quality Leads To Great Success

Issue 359-Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Issue 358-Which Price Is Right?

Issue 357-Advertising: Push or Pull?

Issue 356-Budgeting 101

Issue 355-Controlling Extremes in Accounts Receivable

Issue 354-People Are the Key to Operation Success

Issue 353-Effective Decision-Making Systems

Issue 352-What Types of Daycare Expenses Qualify For the Child and Dependent Care Credit?

Issue 351-Helpful Hints To Prevent Investment Mistakes

Issue 350--A Brief History of Federal Taxation To Obtain a Perspective--

Issue 349--Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits--

Issue 348--What types of Daycare Expenses Qualify For the Child and Dependent Care Credit?--

Issue 347--The Child Tax Credit--An Overview--

Issue 346--What is David Robinson doing besides taxes these days?

Issue 345--Getting Ready For Your Preparer-- Part 3

Issue 344--Getting Ready For Your Preparer-- Part 2

Issue 343--Getting Ready For Your Preparer-- Part 1

Issue 342--Success Secrets For Entrepreneurs

Issue 341--New Investment Opportunities

Issue 340--Tax Traps on Estates

Issue 339--Final Thoughts of the Millineum

Issue 338--Estate Planning

Issue 337--Winning The Tax Game

Issue 336--Holiday Planning Tips for 2000

Issue 335--Why Can't My Small Company Have a 401(k) Plan?

Issue 334--Mileage Rates, Renting Property to a Corporation, Insurance Agents, Expatriates

Issue 333--The Most Common Small Business Retirement Plan-- The SEP-IRA

Issue 332--The "Simple" -- A Simple Retirement Plan?

Issue 331--Year End Planning for Individuals-- Part Three

Issue 330--Year End Planning for Individuals-- Part Two

Issue 329--Year End Planning for Individuals--Part One

Issue 328--Small Business Year End Planning

Issue 327--Medical Expenses

Issue 326--Charitable Organizations

Issue 325--Deductions For Bad Debts

Issue 324--Household Employee Tax

Issue 323--Internet: The Global Connection

Issue 322--Developing Trends in the Internet Industry

Issue 321--Tax Breaks For 1999 And Beyond

Issue 320--Strategies For Dependency Exemptions

Issue 319--Disputes With The IRS

Issue 318--Top Ten List for Uncovering Tax Breaks

Issue 317--Investment Expenses

Issue 316--Vacation And Second Home Tax Savings

Issue 315--Tax-Deferred Property Exchanges

Issue 314--Maximizing Cash Flow

Issue 313--Critical Dates For Y2K

Issue 312--Little-Known Charitable Deductions

Issue 311--Thoughts About Investor Mistakes

Issue 310--Investor Mistakes

Issue 309--Unusual Business Charitable Contributions

Issue 308--Business Charitable Contributions

Issue 307--Recordkeeping for Meals and Entertainment

Issue 306--More Meals and Entertainment

Issue 305--Meals and Entertainment

Issue 304--Commuting Costs

Issue 303--Some Ways to Reduce Taxes

Issue 302--Section 125 Plans

Issue 301--Banking--Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Issue 300--The Future of Business License Taxes in Chesterfield County, Virginia

Issue 299--Winning the Lottery

Issue 298--Sickness and Injury Benefits

Issue 297--Fringe Benefits

Issue 296--Retirement & Stocks

Issue 295--Where To Retire?

Issue 294--Making the Most of Your Charitable Gifts

Issue 293--Home Computer Deduction

Issue 292--Preparing For Your CPA

Issue 291--Deductible Taxes

Issue 290--Who Is Considered a Dependent?

Issue 289--Filing Status

Issue 288--1999 Standard Deductions, Personal Exemptions and Tax Rates

Issue 287--Final 1998 Thoughts

Issue 286--Hire a Professional

Issue 285--Umbrella Liability Insurance

Issue 284--Safety Deposit Boxes

Issue 283--The Spirit of a Contract

Issue 282--Life Insurance

Issue 281--Cleaning Up Your Computer

Issue 280--Roth IRA Update

Issue 279--Social Security

Issue 278--Types of Taxable Income

Issue 277--Year 2000 Computer Problems

Issue 276--Estate Planning

Issue 275--Virginia New Hire Law

Issue 274--Retirement Planning (Part 2)

Issue 273--Retirement Planning (Part 1)

Issue 272--Tax-Favored Wealth

Issue 271--Chaos In Cyberspace

Issue 270--Alternative Minimum Tax

Issue 269--Striving For Investment Success

Issue 268--Deducting a Loss On the Sale of a Decedent's Residence

Issue 267--Innocent Spouse Relief

Issue 266--The IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (Part 2 of 2)

Issue 265--The IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (Part 1 of 2)

Issue 264--Stocks

Issue 263--Types of Entities

Issue 262--Learning From the President's Tax Return

Issue 261--IRS Audits Across the U. S.

Issue 260--Bartering

Issue 259--Business Insurance

Issue 258--Deductions For Homeowners

Issue 257--New For 1998 Taxes

Issue 256--Preparing To Sell a Business

Issue 255--Contacting Your Legislators

Issue 254--Nanny Tax Update

Issue 253--The Effect of the 1997 Tax Bill

Issue 252--Teaching Investing to Kids

Issue 251--Financial Web Sites

Issue 250--Brokers On the Web

Issue 249--Computer Backups

Issue 248--Your Financial Records

Issue 247--Tax Quiz

Issue 246--Myths About Financial Aid

Issue 245--Lifetime Learning Credit

Issue 244--Education IRAs

Issue 243--Education Credit and Student Loan Interest

Issue 242--Capital Gains

Issue 241--New Laws For Residence Sales

Issue 240--Home Office Deduction

Issue 239--Converting Regular IRAs to Roth IRAs

Issue 238--Making Roth IRA Contributions

Issue 237--IRAS In General

Issue 236--Privately-Owned Businesses

Issue 235--End of Year Thoughts

Issue 234--Year-End Planning

Issue 233--1997 Tax Legislation

Issue 232--Roth IRA

Issue 231--SBA Loan Program

Issue 230--Planning For the Future

Issue 229--Guaranteed Loan Program

Issue 228--Raising Capital

Issue 227--Employee Theft

Issue 226--Income Statement

Issue 225--Avoiding Discrimination Lawsuits

Issue 224--Property

Issue 223--Audits Part 2

Issue 222--Audits Part 1

Issue 221--Virginia Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Part 2

Issue 220--Virginia Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Part 1

Issue 219--Make Money Safely

Issue 218--1997 Federal Tax Bill

Issue 217--Individual Retirement Accounts

Issue 216--Education Tax Credits

Issue 215--Child Tax Credit

Issue 214--Business Loans

Issue 213--Business Entertainment Expenses

Issue 212--The Balance Sheet

Issue 211--Need Help Paying Bills?

Issue 210--Changes At The IRS?

Issue 209--Get Paid To Job Hunt

Issue 208--College Students and Credit Cards

Issue 207--Ten Rules For Winning With The IRS

Issue 206--Retirement and Tax Traps

Issue 205--Child Support

Issue 204--Business Leadership

Issue 203--Financial Strategies for Couples

Issue 202--Profit Motive

Issue 201--Small Business Fraud

Issue 200--Purchasing a Business

Issue 199--Writing a Business Plan

Issue 198--Tax Saving Tips

Issue 197--Donating Inventory

Issue 196--Medical Savings Accounts

Issue 195--Tax Concerns

Issue 194--Moving Money Offshore

Issue 193--The Consumer Price Index

Issue 192--Charitable Remainder Trusts

Issue 191--Outgrowing Your Home Office

Issue 190--Securing Merchant Status With Credit Card Companies

Issue 189--Getting Paid Promptly

Issue 188--Tax Aspects of Lawsuits

Issue 187--Gifts to Employees

Issue 186--Control Your Credit Card

Issue 185--Earned Income Credit

Issue 184--Hiring Household Help

Issue 183--A Little About Us

Issue 182--Family Loans

Issue 181--Financial Resolutions

Issue 180--Children's Taxable Income

Issue 179--Estimated Payments

Issue 178--Key 1996 Numbers

Issue 177--Alternative Dispute Resolution (Part 2 of 2)

Issue 176--Alternative Dispute Resolution (Part 1 of 2)

Issue 175--Retirement Plans

Issue 174--Planning for Your Retirement

Issue 173--Charitable Gifts

Issue 172--Tax Savings for Small Business Owners

Issue 171--Tax Savings for Home Owners

Issue 170--1996 Tax Highlights

Issue 169--SIMPLE Retirement Plan

Issue 168--IRS Says it Will Listen to CPA's

Issue 167--Taxpayer Rights

Issue 166--Selling Your Product Globally

Issue 165--Basic Transportation Is Not Basic Anymore

Issue 164--Building a Target Market

Issue 163--Dole's Tax Plan

Issue 161--Reducing Risk in Hiring and Firing, Part 2 of 2

Issue 160--Reducing Risk in Hiring and Firing, Part 1 of 2

Issue 159--Teaching Your Children Financial Responsibility,
Part 2 of 2

Issue 158--Teaching Your Children Financial Responsibility,
Part 1 of 2

Issue 157--Preparing For Next Year's Taxes

Issue 156--Spending Money Wisely

Issue 155--Advice For Parents on Getting Kids Into College

Issue 153--Is Virginia A High Tax State?

Issue 152--Charitable Remainder Gifts

Issue 151--Navigating the Web

Issue 150--1996 Tax Rates

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