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College Financial Planning

How Can You Pay for Your Kid to go to College, Spend and Save as You Are Now, and Increase the Amount of Money You have for Retirement?

Elder Care Financial Care

Finally… Worry Free Financial Management for Your Aging Parent or Family Member.

Estate Planning Done Right

Make Sure Your Family Transitions Prepare Your Children and Your Family for Financial Freedom.

How Virginia Beach Businesses Can Build a Quality Prospect List

How’s your client/customer list faring these days?If you’re like every other business around you, you’ve got some churn happening. People move, change jobs, experience a shift in financial circumstances … the list goes on. Even in predictable economic times (remember...

Disaster Recovery Planning Your Virginia Beach Small Business Probably Needs

The phone rings in the middle of the night and a voice says your office is on fire. Early on a long weekend, that old pipe in the back finally bursts and no one will see the water for days. Or suddenly the Weather Channel’s saying a hurricane is barreling in your...

Leadership and Empowerment for Business Owners: A Story

Let me begin by noting, if you were looking to file for the Employee Retention Credit this year, heads up that the IRS isn't processing any new claims through the end of the year. This is an effort to keep you out of hot water if you shouldn't be claiming...

Small Business Tax Credit Updates Virginia Beach Owners Will Want to Consider

I wanted you to know about something that came across my desk the other day because it is potentially very good news...Not many are talking about this, but there have been some MAJOR new Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program updates from the SBA...New $2...

Training Your Heart For Good Financial Stewardship In Virginia Beach

Working with my Virginia Beach clients' finances over the years has given me a bit of a crash course in human behavior. Often, I'm floored by the generosity I see displayed by many clients -- even those without significant means. Other times ... well, I think that we...

Remote Work & Your Virginia Beach Business Insurance Policy

Now that we’re through January (and all of the 1099’s and payroll-related information returns), we take a small breath … but then things start ramping up again for us here at James Financial Services Inc.So let this serve as an early notice that it would be a very...

The New Congress and Your Virginia Beach Business

This time of year means big things for Virginia Beach businesses like yours… and big-red-bow-on-top opportunities thanks to the post-Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas buying euphoria. Early indicators are that this has been a tepid start to the consumer holiday season,...

Raises and Inflation: Virginia Beach Business Owners, Listen Up

Everywhere I turn there’s a Virginia Beach business with a “Now Hiring” sign in the window. Are you seeing this too? Staffing is an issue in every industry across the country. Part of that? Making money isn’t the only reason people want a job. 2020 certainly...

How Virginia Beach Owners Can Measure Business Value Correctly

There’s this comparative analogy about what makes something American that people like to use: “as American as apple pie.” But, I kind of think we should update that comparison to “as American as starting a small business.” Not as catchy, I know (or as yummy)....

Worker Classification Steps for Virginia Beach Businesses in 2022

And the books turn over.As we step over the threshold into 2022, we're all staring at much lower numbers in our P/L's. It's a new slate, and the possibilities are endless.What will you do in 2022? That's the question of the hour ... and it has much less to do with...

How You’re Missing Legal Tax Deductions

Here’s a certain truth: the State and Federal Government would love to have more of your hard-earned money in their accounts. Sure, even though it’s painful, none of us begrudge paying our legal and fair share of taxes.
But the problem is that regular taxpayers, like you, are missing out on legal and safe deductions, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed refunds every year!

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