Last September I put this week on the calendar and locked it shut. No client calls. No strategy sessions. No notifications at midnight. Because my daughter Bella is a Coast Guard Academy cadet, her schedule belongs to the federal government now, and the windows to be together don’t appear on their own. You plan them…
I want to tell you about a phone call I got this week. We were in El Yunque. That’s the rainforest in Puerto Rico. Dense canopy, humidity you can wear, the kind of place where your phone signal is a suggestion. My family was outside the car. I was sitting in the passenger seat on…
My good friend Vance Morris sent me an article this morning that made me almost choke on my coffee. The FBI Director’s girlfriend is blaming “transgender mice” for his taxpayer-funded party habits. Transgender. Mice. You cannot make this up. But here’s why I’m telling you. Because I hear my own version of “blame the mice”…
I need to tell you something important. And I need you to read every word of this letter carefully because what I’m about to share could save you tens of thousands of dollars. Here goes. This morning, something happened that hasn’t happened in over three years. The 30-year mortgage rate dropped below 6 percent. Freddie…
On Tuesday I walked off stage from a workshop I gave to a room full of realtors about what’s happening inside the IRS right now. I looked at their faces when I told them. Some went pale. A few pulled out their phones mid-presentation to text their clients. Let me give you the same briefing.…
The IRS is a pirate. Stop negotiating. I was just in New London on my East Coast expansion trip, watching my daughter at the Coast Guard Academy. And here’s what hit me: when the Coast Guard deals with pirates, they don’t talk. They don’t negotiate. They don’t hope. They act, fast and precise. Meanwhile, too…
CaliClaw Exposed: How California’s Tax Beast Hunts Your Paycheck (And How to Fight Back) By Carlos Samaniego, EA – The Tax Debt Detective™ Every week, someone calls my office screaming the same thing: “Carlos! They garnished my wages out of nowhere! No warning! No notice! Nothing!” They’re talking about what I call CaliClaw—California’s Franchise Tax…
Plus: Help me choose the official goblin for our Tax Underworld There’s a creature living in your paycheck. Goes by “Wage Garnishment Goblin.” And right now, he’s sitting in HR departments across America, sharpening his claws, waiting for his next victim. Here’s how this creature operates: First, he whispers to the IRS: “Oh, this taxpayer…
In The Godfather, money wasn’t the true currency. It was respect. Solve someone’s problem, and you didn’t just earn payment. You earned loyalty. That’s exactly what happened with a business owner who came to me a few years back. He owed the IRS $305,000. The Wage Garnishment Goblin was already circling his paycheck. One wrong…
In The Godfather, Don Corleone never begged anyone for respect. He didn’t plead for attention. He solved problems. And people came to him because they knew he could deliver. That’s how I run my practice in the Tax Underworld. I don’t chase clients. I don’t beg for cases. And I sure as hell don’t discount…