great thing for us cpas. we are still there and we want to provide advice. my best advice to you and supporting end of the year deftly get with your cpa to give that person a call sometime in the next week and see if there s at the last minute things to do. once next year starts your early in the 2018, please i m telling our clients, meet with your cpa sometime in march or april plan out your tax expenses for 2018 is you want people to make decisions in advance rather than scramble around at the end of the year. mike: good advice. thank you very much thank you very much. merry christmas. lea: christmas celebrations in diverse places is more subdued than this year because of the historic announcement of jerusalem. how the fallout from thaton decision is changing the way some people observe the holiday. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i m glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. for some, lyrica delivers effective relief for mo
congress are representing different districts. most who didn t vote for the budget are concerned about state and local income taxes and i spoke to some of them and they are concerned as we move forward and we have to look at these things. i m pretty unique saying i support reducing taxes and not looking to shift because some of these changes will shift tax expenses of somebody else. that is what they are concerned about, constituents. we have to bring these tax rates down. we had a hearing a couple months back and all i can hear is people saying the same thing, we need to reduce rates. leland: everybody agrees on that and outside the office you had all the lobbyists for the oil companies and realtors and drug companies and every other industry saying you need to cut taxes on everybody but also keep special deductions and whether it is the oil depletion allowance or depreciate private
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