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Do you need a seasoned tax attorney? It’s almost tax season!

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Shopping for a tax attorney is almost like shopping for shoes. You have to try on a few pairs before you decide on what looks good and what does not. There are different kinds of tax attorneys. So you really need to do your homework.

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Get Your Taxes Started

First, you must decide on whether you are having your personal taxes prepared, your business taxes prepared, or both. Then, you look around to see who is nice and cordial, and who is not. You also look around to see who the expert is and what you need to have done, so there will not be any mistakes.

A couple of useful keywords come to mind when shopping for an attorney: compassion, empathy and honesty. At taxattorney.com they seem to take these into serious consideration when dealing with you and your tax sensitivities.

Sure, you could go to your nearest tax office and get your taxes prepared there, but why not do your taxes online to save your money on gas, time and energy? It takes time to browse around online, but your searching online will be greatly reduced because you will not be wasting time sitting at stop lights or waiting behind slow drivers because the speed limit is only 35mph on the streets.

Back Taxes Owed

What if you need special tax help, like an IRS tax audit or unpaid taxes from years ago that you are now ready to pay? Shopping online at taxattorney.com can help you find that specialist to help you get over the financial slump, as a local tax shop may not be able to handle a larger issue.

The taxattorney.com website has a very convenient tool called the “Back Taxes Owed” area where you can select the amount of back taxes owed from a drop-down list. After making your monetary selection of the amount of taxes owed, you would then enter your name, phone number, the best time to call, your email address and any comments you might care to put in.

Website Overview: Tax Attorney dot com

I like the fact that taxattorney.com has a wealth of informational links right on its home page. You can easily find what you are looking for without having to click on several pages down just to get to where you want to go.

The main information is easily visible. This website also tells you up front what types of services it offers, it tells you that they give expert legal advice, and finally, that they have a strict price guarantee. At taxattorney.com the price that they quote you is the price that they will charge you.

If you need additional services from a tax attorney, they will only charge you for those additional services quoted. They will not try to sell you anything else such as tax problems related to the IRS or tax debt. They will only charge you what you came there for.

Another great thing I like about this website is that it reveals untrue myths regarding tax issues, such as do you believe that you don’t earn enough to have to pay tax, or do you think that if you need to apply for your tax refund that the IRS will audit your returns? These are just a couple of myths that many people believe, but are not true. Visit the website to see more untrue myths.

One of the special features of taxattorney.com is that they offer assistance from an IRS lawyer. Sometimes we cannot foresee unexpected pitfalls, curve balls and hidden challenges that lie in tax problems, but a very trained and knowledgeable IRS attorney will be familiar with surprising issues and will know how to handle them.

It might be wise to tell your tax attorney everything. That way you will have complete peace of mind knowing that everything will be resolved because you have told them everything and you have chosen the right attorney. Go with taxattorney.com. You may have a great night’s sleep awaiting you.

Human Resources: Be resourceful when looking for HR jobs

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Human resources, or more simply “HR”, is an industry within business that many people don’t really know all that much about. However, a career in the field can be both satisfying and financially rewarding. It also happens to be an in-demand job with openings across the country in a wide variety of business fields.

Searching for HR Jobs

A quick online search can yield thousands of potential landing points for someone qualified and looking for a job in human resources. ICS is a fantastic reference to continue the job search in this field, providing additional information about the job, information on potential salary, as well as a plethora of job listing.

Current Jobs: What’s available

When I begin looking for a job, the first thing I will look for is the most current job postings. The older the posting, the more likely it is that the position has already been filled. ICS, has a few very recent posts with jobs that have been posted within the last few weeks, however they have older postings as well.

Older Jobs: Valuable Information

I think it can be beneficial to look through some of the older posts to get more information. So long as the posting is not very old, it won’t hurt to send in a resume either. Information in older posts can give a better idea of an expected salary as well the availability of jobs to expect in the future. If older postings are prevalent, then you can expect that more will be posted in the future as well.

ICS does more than enough to fit the needs of a person looking for a job in this area. Even without the job postings, the website gives a great overview of the job. This includes statistics regarding to the potential of the job from relevant sources including the Bureau of Labor Statistics which called HR one of the fastest growing jobs on the market.

ICS: Informative Overview

The website allows serves both those currently looking to get a job in the field as well as those who are only thinking about the potential. If someone is thinking about getting into the field, they can come to ICS to gain a better understanding as to if they think the job is the right place for them.

Many people will want to get a more in-depth description of the job including the responsibilities and average day to day of an HR specialist. This information, as well as salary and necessary education information can all be attained from the website. ICS meets the needs of the human resources job seeker in these areas.

Having graduated from university with a degree in business administration, I have spent a considerable amount of time browsing the internet for hr jobs as well as other more general positions within the broader spectrum of the business field.

I wish I had found ICS earlier on in my search as it would be been a great resource in my hunt for the perfect job. If you are great with people and interested in business, a career in human resources might be the thing for you.

Mueller

Opportunities: Chemicals Mergers & Acquisitions for Big Players or Small Players?

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There’s a lot of buzz about Mergers & Acquisitions in the Stock Markets of the world! However, for the average investor, they can represent both a buying opportunity; and a selling opportunity. The challenge is knowing the difference, as the history of the New York Stock Exchange is littered with the carcuses of mergers that failed, and few can point to successful mergers in the short term.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are something of an advanced topic for the typical individual investor — making drilling down to focus on M&As in just one market sector even more daunting. But if you like the idea of adding a little geek cred to your investing knowledge or just want to learn about an area that poses some extra challenges, then boning up on single-sector M&A may be just your thing.

The Chemicals Industry: Not Exempt from M&A frenzy!

And in that case, why not center your attention on the chemicals industry? It’s actually not that easy to find extensive or detailed coverage of M&A prospects and deals-in-progress in chemicals.

Sure, pretty much all of the major market-analysis providers offer a little coverage of the sector. It seems typical that they’ll have one or two chemicals specialists on staff, but rarely are chemicals and materials actually a major focus for the firm as a whole. Which is why it intrigued me when I stumbled upon the Valence Group’s site.

 

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Valence Group: M&A chemical advisors

The Valence Group describes itself as the biggest team of professionals wholly-dedicated to chemical m&a advisory services in the world. It may say a lot about demand for such expertise that I wasn’t able to find mention anywhere of another similarly dedicated firm.

Nevertheless, on first glance, you would think that this would make Valence Group, and hopefully their site, the place to find some great information on up-and-coming or at least possible M&A deals. But as it turned out, that wasn’t particularly the case.

Yes, Valence Group has a few pages dedicated to doing glossy deals that they have been a part of in the past. I also got to read up on their corporate philosophy and was impressed at how internally team-oriented they say that they are.

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Still, none of that was anywhere near as impressive as the presence of some Morningstar or TABB Group–style analysis would have been. Thoughts on hot takeover prospects, perhaps, or on which chemicals-sector companies have cash reserves they’re just dying to use to buy out a foreign concern — say, one that’ll give them a toehold into an international market they’d be hard-pressed to find entry into otherwise?

But there was no research like that available, although you can download in PDF form a couple issues of Valence Group’s newsletters. (More on that newsletter in a bit.) After all, as I further learned from perusing the site, unlike TABB or Morningstar, Valence Group is not an independent analyst, despite the fact that they actually have put together their own index, fully viewable on their site, of chemicals industry stocks.

Valence Group: Investment Bank

Valence Group is actually a specialized investment bank, which means that all their materials and even those polished-looking newsletters are all designed specifically to get you lusting after the idea of doing some chemicals-sector M&A (and perhaps part of the reason they do not publish their reports…?)

In fact, the primary content of those newsletters were reports indicating what, you guessed it, the climate for M&As in Valence Group’s industry is like and how continues to look very positive.

For the Individual Investor

Probably the most useful item on their Website to an average individual investor is the list of factors in a chemical-sector M&A that Valence Group considers themselves especially well suited to advise any potential M&A participants in; and when I say “useful”, what I mean there is that you could find it educational to read through that page, just to understand what specialty issues might be at hand as part of any deals in this industry.

And their newsletters are certainly worth the free download, if for nothing else than the comparison bar charts they offer about current growth in various chemicals subsectors. So overall, I’d say that if I was looking for M&A investing advice and mainly interested in chemicals, I would look over Valence Group’s site…and keep going.

Investment Analysis

I think an individual investor can do better by looking for specific information on companies that might be involved in an M&A already. Valence Group isn’t offering any insider scoops on their site, and in fact their newsletters each offer the disclaimer, again, that what they offer is not independent investment analysis.

Still, since Valence Group’s site did get me thinking about the sector, reading up on what’s been said about M&A potential in chemicals right now certainly convinced me that chemical-company deals might be worth paying attention to. For example, as it turns out (and I independently confirmed with further research myself), 2011 was a record-breaking year for chemical sector-specific M&A, with total value of deals being made at $82 billion worldwide.

And, 2012 doesn’t necessarily show signs of weakening prospects there. So don’t be afraid to consider teaching yourself more about M&A in general, nor about M&A specifically in chemicals. Just don’t expect, as an average investor, that the Valence Group or their Website is going to be useful as a primary or even sole secondary information source.

Amy Marre