Improve Your Bottom Line! Welcome to our business bulletin "The Bottom Line".  Our periodic business bulletin is designed to give you business tips, reminders, and some business building ideas.  We hope you find this information useful.  If there is additonal information you would like to see included, please let us know. REMINDER:  Schedule your tax appointment today.  Times are quickly filling up.  Please call 618-498-2169 today.   OUR WEBSITE:  Please take a moment to review our website.  It is designed for you to make better use of our company as a resource.  Please note the calculators available.  There is no charge for this service.

Help for Business Owners Established as "the Official Link to the U.S. Government," Business.GOV at www.business.gov is a unique website for business owners.   Substantiating Charitable Contributions As we approach year-end, many of us may need to catch up on our charitable contributions for a number of reasons in addition to a tax break. So, let's briefly review the IRS rules on deducting charitable contributions.   Traditional to Roth IRA Conversions Four years ago, the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (TIPRA) relaxed some restrictive rules preventing many taxpayers from converting a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, but this favorable change was not effective until 2010.