By Trent Hamm

I considered posting this article during the actual tax season, but I decided to wait until the rush of actually filing taxes was over.

Almost all of you who live in the US have filed your income taxes by now. Some of you – the self-employed or functionally self-employed, like I am – have filed first quarter estimated taxes as well. Others may have filed business taxes.

We’ve all gone through a process that, at the very least, involves filling out forms and hoping that others have done their part to make it all right. In other cases, like my own, it involves lots of pages of forms, tons of calculations, the near-requirement of buying software or hiring a specialist, and hoping that you didn’t overlook one out of a thousand little things. Because... More...