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Welcome to MoneyGrubbingLawyer. If this is your first time here, you may want to get started by learning a little bit more about me and about this site. If you like what you see, you can subscribe to receive updates by email or in a reader. Thanks for visiting!After a well deserved holiday hiatus, MGL [...]
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In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that donating securities to a charity can offer some attractive tax benefits. A reader wrote and asked me a few questions about this, and my long winded response quickly began to look like a nice blog posting for anyone else who may be interested in this topic.
In Canada, donations to [...]
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The holiday season is a time of year when many of us turn our minds to charitable giving. For some, it is motivated by altruism and holiday spirit; for others, it is motivated by the cold hand of tax planning and the realization that we’ve being living the past 11 months like Ebenezer Scrooge.
Whatever your [...]
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Quick- name three “recession proof” industries.
If you’re like me, you probably thought about those industries with inelastic demand and solid business models- big tobacco, health care, and other sectors that people just won’t cut out of their monthly budgets. But would you have guessed that sex toys might fall in this category as well?
Anthony Germain, [...]
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Most people hate to think about those finance issues related to death, such as estate planning, funeral arrangements, and life insurance. Not me, though- perhaps years of drafting wills has numbed me to the chill of confronting one’s own mortality, or maybe my affinity for Six Feet Under has hardened my sensibilities. Heck, maybe it [...]
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