Best tax breaks and/or write off for home office in 2020?

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- Tissue boxes for wiping up all those tears
- Wine subscriptions for drowning all your sorrows

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As an employee, there is no home office write off.

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If you have a work office, soon people may not!

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Those of you that live in nyc and have 2-3 kids that go to private school, what’s your HHI? Do you rent or buy? Want to know if my SO and I could swing it with our future kids…

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Has anyone here done a full time MBA in NYC? If so, how did you manage paying rent and your other expenses? Did you just rack up debt?

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Any Connecticut Ins companies that will write a coastal property (old saybrook) on pilings? Old saybrook,ct 1mil

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My CTC is 21L and i have tax deduction for home loan at 1.5L and icici policy premium at 1.5L
How can i reduce my income tax in what all other investements ? Please guide me

Is a $700K house reasonable? ~$70K down payment. HHI ~$180K-200K. Upstate NY, so high r/e taxes.

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All coins free falling !!

Just ran the numbers and it seems like undergrad and grad school costs will be through the roof when my kids go to school in 15 years. I wanted to try to aggressively pay off my house (400k loan balance) but am now thinking I can’t do that and will have to only throw money at the 529 (100k balance) for 15 years. Thoughts? What would you do?

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I Bonds rate is 7.12% for the next 6 months does that mean I earn 7.12% every month? Just a little confused. So if I have 10,000 in does that mean I would earn 712 the first month?

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Any recommendations on realtors to buy vacation property in vermont?

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How did you get started in your career as an FA? I work in the home office and have been an assistant to an FA before. I have a network, I have ambition, I have credibility and connections at my firm..

Desi fish, has anyone created an LLC for investment property while being on an H1B visa? Anything to keep in mind? Any recommendations on good attorneys. Based in NJ.

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How much liquid cash do you all hold at any given time? Have about 50k which is about 8 months of running reserve. Afraid to go thinner than that.. What do y'all think?

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Which platforms do you folks use to buy money market ETFs, corporate bonds etc?

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Noob question: would alternate travel during the weekend count as taxable? Would I pay the regular tax rate on it as my regular income?

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I’ve seen some post with folks claiming that they have $300K to $500K saved up and are between the age of 24-27.. how is this true? Tell the true story. “I still live at home and parents cover my expenses and I didn’t have student loans?”

$84K (before taxes) is the average pay for Management consultants in the US (Glassdoor). Please share how you’re saving up your whole salary year after year or have multiple jobs while delivering quality work for your current employer.

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Who are people using for auto and homeowners insurance? Currently paying Erie $878 per year for 2016 BMW 428i in Arlington, no claims or tickets last few years. Just did an online quote with Progressive, and for identical coverages it was $200 less, BUT their homeowners was about $500 more so total cost worse. Geico comes in higher too.

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Where do you all want to retire? Share your retirement location goals and reasoning!

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Any recommendations for a 4k monitor?
My new job gives me WFH allowance for my desk and I’m looking to upgrade from my 1080p 27 inch Dell monitor.

Any recs would be appreciated!

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Best WFH office chair? Looking for an upgrade

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Any thoughts, offerings, advice for helping educators move past fears/trauma/bias from their own personal & loved experience with math?

Hurt people are hurting people. 🧡

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Any accounting folks on a visa exited to roles that aren’t audit/tax? Looking for ideas before I go back in debt to school lol

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Has anyone traveled to any California national parks during Covid? Going to be camping in Sequoia Natl Forest next week (4hr drive for me). Any tips to stay safe/away from people? Planning to socially distance and wear a mask😷 (obviously)

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After a hard reset on travel points (got none after Covid and change to industry) how would you start over? Which credit card is best for travel points? Airline? Starwood or Bonvoy? Avis or ??

At one time I had status on most airlines and hotels but I never bothered to focus on accumulating points since it seemed like they were infinite and I booked on convenience. Oh have times changed! I even let go of Amex platinum, just wasn’t worth it to me. Base airport LAX/SNA so no airline pref.

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Which firms are still hiring international students on F1 Visa this recruiting cycle?

Can I remain in the US and work for the Canadian branch of my company while my green card application is pending (my STEM OPT just expired and I haven’t gotten my green card approval yet). Traveling will mean abandoning my green card application 😩

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As the year wraps up, what % did your total net worth rise YTD? Btwn earnings and market and crypto, my NW is up 25-30% this year

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Today I have officially made the decision to stop taking any and all cases that involve children. I feel like a huge weight has been lifted!! I just had to share with other professionals that understand. Yes, this will be a financial blow, but I’m fine with it.

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Recently talked to a recruiter who said their paid social planners only plan the media and out sources their buying to another agency. That’s not very common is it? I have always done both.

Tips for attracting followers and engagement to Instagram? Been sticking to reels mostly but lately not seeing much traction at all. And hardly any new followers with new content, despite CTAs and following general best practices. Account at 3k

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Hi fam! Taking a poll- are you out at work? To everyone or just a chosen few?
And bonus- do you know other Black LGBTQ folks at work that are out to all?

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What would you include about you on your bio as a late junior associate/early mid level? I feel like it’s important to flag what you work on, but also not like you have much control over that at this stage. Anything that’s a huge accomplishment to have done as a junior just feels braggy.

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Does anyone have a good, trusted financial advisor in Austin they can recommend? Looking for help in retirement, setting up 529, and other grown up things.

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Are there any EAs in here that are extremely familiar with the tech industry that would be okay with me messaging them to figure out the best option between two offers?

How does one get a referral in Toronto? Im new to the area any advice ?

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Hi! Does anyone know top notch agency recruiters in the UK or Europe? Thanks!

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Although summer vacation is about over for some of us, what do you do as summer jobs (to get by when school is out)?

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Favorite waiver wire adds this week? Other than Elijah Mitchell

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How is WLB in Tiger Analytics?
Do they allow project movement , If we don't like the kind of work we get in project?

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WhAT IS THIS COKE/PEPSI COMMERCIAL?!!! Whattttt

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Juneteenth will one day be bigger than 4th of July. The movement is building ❤

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Who is your nemesis at work- and why!

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I want to understand business enough to be like a Shark on Shark Tank. Have an MBA but feel like I still need more business acumen before I could analyze a business like that. What other training would help? What types of jobs would help gain that experience? Consulting? Please help me be a 🦈 🥺🙏

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Anyone here involved with MBA recruiting? My friend is trying to decide if he wants to attend Kellogg this fall (from South Korea) or just continue his job and re apply to business school for next fall or two years from now. He has an undergrad from a top 10 US school and wants to come back to the US and is also worried about the trump administration and whether he’ll even get to stay in the US.

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We’re at the end of refinancing and my loan officer wants a letter indicating what my federal student loan payments will be after the forbearance is over. My last recalculation happened in 2019, so I gave him that letter but he says it’s too old. The loan verification letter from Fedloan reflects just $0 payments and $0 due, in forbearance until September. Has anyone else run into this and if so, how did you get around it? I could write a letter explaining but not sure what else to do. TIA

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It’s June and WHO finally advising us to wear masks? Seems like common sense?

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When do you think Americans are allowed to travel to other countries? Do you think we would be able to freely travel by January? I’m bit by the travel bug and my husband hasn’t seen his mother in Northern Ireland in 8 years since he moved here.

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Anyone else starting to resent how lax some people are taking social distancing? I’m in NJ and still going hard (for the most part)...are you jealous of people seeing friends? I am... are we fighting

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Can anybody explain the cons of Lendingtable ? Is it a good idea to utilize ?

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Any runners in this bowl? I just started running almost daily during quarantine, been using Strava and currently running +/-2.5miles at 9.30/mile. Would love to eventually run a 5K at that split sometime this summer. Any training tips welcome

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How educated are you on the topic of slavery?

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Im in therapy but i don't think therapy can fix me. Im just so cynical and bitter all the time. I've tried different therapists too. What should I do?

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It’s just Tuesday?!?!?!

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Leave it to Texas

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Does anyone have a varidesk (electric standing desk) - would you recommend? Trying to decide between this and autonomous ai.

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Hey all - so I’m looking to figure out who I should reach out to & how to even document - I’m being singled out, targeted, & manipulated at work. It’s causing a direct toll on my emotional & mental well being. I’m in the process of looking for new work but can’t just leave & look
It took me a couple of years to figure it out - I kept rationalizing their behaviors w/ - they can’t possibly mean this - I wish I would have figured this out earlier - but it is what it is. Now I need protect myself

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I’m tired of my WFH coworkers

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