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Thursday, January 18 – Freda Brown Provides Tax Advice for Service-Based Businesses

For: For WMCA members, potential members, coaches, and anyone interested in the topic.

Cost: Free for members. $5 for non-members

RSVP: Requested but not required [Email RSVP here]

Location: Lilly Library, 19 Meadow St, Florence, MA (just past Florence center on Route 9) [MAP]

Parking: Free in the library lot or nearby

Refreshments: Feel free to bring your own snacks.

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Would you rather just pay your taxes OR plan for tax savings?

What deductions are you NOT taking (and should be)?

Are you commuting to work or do you have allowable business miles?

What does your health insurance have to do with your business?

Should you have employees?

What are estimated payments and how much should you be paying?

How will the new tax laws affect you?

Freda Brown, EA, CDFA  will be covering these topics and more.

Freda Brown graduated from Springfield College with a BS in Education.  She is an Enrolled Agent with over 35 years of tax experience and now working with Drenen Financial Services Inc as a Master Tax Advisor.  She specializes in Small Business tax returns & Tax Resolution.  Freda is also a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and has owned her own business — Divorce Financial Services — since 2003.

Freda is the owner of the 100+ acres of land that the New England Disc Golf Center (NEDGC) traverses through.  Land that has been in her family for over 75 years, it has been Freda’s desire to create a use for this land that enhances and maintains its beauty.  Freda is the CFO and on the Board of Directors for NEDGC.

Freda has been a member of several professional organizations and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for WBOA as CFO.

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