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Small Business Taxes: COGS, Supplies, Office Expenses, oh my!
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Read more: Small Business Taxes: COGS, Supplies, Office Expenses, oh my!Making sense of your business taxes can be frustrating and quite particular. What’s the difference between an office expense and supplies? And what even is depreciation? Never fear, Tree City Tax is here to explain the general differences between these line items on your Schedule C!
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The Queer Economy: Why you should hire LGBTQIA+ professionals as often as possible
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Read more: The Queer Economy: Why you should hire LGBTQIA+ professionals as often as possibleSpending your money with queer-owned businesses means helping queer people buy groceries, pay rent, and get their meds on time. And it only takes a little bit of upfront research to find the LGBTQIA+ businesses in your local community.
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Queer Financial Wellbeing, Homeownership, and ‘Rainbowlining’
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Read more: Queer Financial Wellbeing, Homeownership, and ‘Rainbowlining’Understanding redlining is key when discussing any discrimination in housing. It’s the model for built-in systemic bias. Because we understand redlining, it’s easy to imagine a few generations into the future to know that the gap in LGB homeownership will continue to widen just like it has widened across racial divides.
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5 Tax Deductions for Home Owners
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Read more: 5 Tax Deductions for Home OwnersBuying a home is a milestone event in most people’s lives, offering a sense of security and usually some financial breaks too! Homeowners have several tax breaks available in 2026 and beyond, so let’s take a look at how your home can impact your tax bill.
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Financial Roadmap for New Graduates
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Read more: Financial Roadmap for New GraduatesGraduating from college is a huge transition, whether you’re moving into an advanced degree program or looking for your first job. On campus, everything is close by and walkable, and you don’t have to worry about access to food or housing. Once you’re out on your own, though, it can be intimidating to find a place to live, a job that puts you on your desired career path, and everything else that comes with being “a real adult.”
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Debt, Shame, and Neurodivergence
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Read more: Debt, Shame, and NeurodivergenceOne thing I want you to know about our business at Tree City Tax: We will never shame you. You can bring us years of backlogged notices from the IRS and a shoebox full of crumpled receipts and we will help you make sense of it.
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Can I Claim My Parent as a Dependent?
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Read more: Can I Claim My Parent as a Dependent?If you provide over half of your parents’ support during the year (including living expenses, medical costs, really anything that they need to live), you may be eligible to claim them as a qualified dependent on your tax return–but only if they meet certain requirements.
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How to Support Aging Parents with Rising Costs
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Read more: How to Support Aging Parents with Rising CostsBudgets are tight for most Americans, but older adults entering their retirement years may feel the squeeze more intensely as prices rise on a fixed income. It often falls to the next generation to fill in the gaps when retirement income doesn’t cover the bare necessities. If this is within your means, hooray–but retirees’ adult children are also struggling to cope with rising costs and may not be able to support aging parents the way previous generations could.
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The Thrill of the Hunt: Buying Secondhand Offers More Than Savings
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Read more: The Thrill of the Hunt: Buying Secondhand Offers More Than SavingsIn an era of nervous systems that are absolutely shot, there has been a resurgence of offline activity. The fact that “going offline” has become an online trend brings up some questions, but that’s not what we’re here to talk about today. Going offline, touching grass, unplugging—whatever you want to call it, it’s something that we desperately need to do more of, because being chronically online is actively hurting our brains’ capacity to think and critically engage with one another.
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Let’s Talk About the ADHD Tax
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Read more: Let’s Talk About the ADHD TaxPeople with ADHD have trouble with executive function, working memory, and time management, which can make budgeting and financial management a stressful burden. It’s not laziness or a lack of care, it’s a disability. So let’s break down what’s happening in the brain to explain where the disconnect comes in.
