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Use Our Resources to Plan Your Finances Better
Take advantage of our financial calculators to plan your finances better. The professionals at Gordon J. Maier & Company, LLP will help you forecast your retirement options or child's college fund to estate planning and mortgage refinancing. The calculators have various features such as Interactive calculations, dynamic graphs, and fully customizable reports. Call us today!
Types of Calculators:
Loan Calculator: This displays the monthly payment, total interest and total payment for your loan based on the loan amount, term and interest rate entered.
Mortgage Calculator: This displays the total interest and total payment of your mortgage based on the loan amount, term and interest rate entered.
Types of Resources
- Refund tracker
- Mortgage calculator
- Loan calculator
- Your taxes
- Recommended links
- Business owners
- Education planning
- Estate planning
- Retirement planning
- Social security
- Newsletters
Get Your Refund Quickly
Get your federal tax refund within 21 days with the help of the refund tracker at Gordon J. Maier & Company, LLP. If the return is mailed to the IRS, a refund is issued within six weeks.
If your refund is taking longer than you expected, check the status of your refund
and contact the IRS. The IRS updates the refund status once every day. If you receive a letter from the IRS detailing changes made to your return, please contact us to discuss your options before paying the IRS notice.
Amended IRS Returns
According to the WI Department of Revenue, a taxpayer should allow for up to 12 weeks for a State Tax return to be processed. There are a some factors that may affect the processing time of the return such as filing electronically versus paper filing, and electing to receive a refund via direct deposit instead of a paper check.
Are you're expecting a refund but didn't receive it yet? Click here for a refund inquiry.
If you receive a letter from the WI DOR detailing changes made to your return, please contact us
to discuss your options before paying the notice.
Learn More About Our Recommended Links
Keep yourself informed about the rule changes of federal agencies and manage your savings bond by referring to the resources listed below.
You can feel confident that the professionals at Gordon J. Maier & Company, LLP will help you during every step of the process.
- Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
- Your favorite government agency!
- Current and historical conversion rates for 164 currencies are available. "You can view any exchange rates among the 164 currencies for any day since 1 January 1990 through today. The currency converter is updated daily at 8:00 p.m. EST."
- "The Savings Bond Calculator" helps you manage your savings bond inventory. This Windows application allows you to maintain an inventory of your bonds and determine the current redemption value, earned interest, and other information. You can also print your bond inventory, providing you with an important record if you ever need to replace any of your savings bonds. The Wizard makes it easy and fun to manage your savings bond investment!
- US Department of the Treasury
- A ton of information on federal legislation, congress and committees. Provides many useful links not only within the federal government, but also to state legislative sites.
Bootstrap Your Business With These Valuable Resources
Learn to plan ahead for your business and yourself with the help of these resources. From insuring your business to setting up franchises, you can find the right path ahead with these articles and FAQs.
Not finding what you're looking for? Call
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Types of Resources
Articles
- Benefits and retirement plans
- Insuring a business
- Starting a business
- Transferring or selling a business
Decision tools
- Benefits and retirement plans
- Business planning basics
- Choosing an entity
- Insurance planning
- Tax planning
- Transferring or selling a business
- Business succession planning alternatives
FAQs
- Advertising a business
- Employee benefits and other issues
- Home-based businesses
- Incorporating a business
- Insurance coverage
- Non-competition agreements
- Partnerships
- Raising capital
- Starting a business
- Transferring or selling a business
- Valuing a business
Make Well-Informed Decisions for Your Education
Whether you're looking for complete financial aid or ways to save on your college bills, you can plan your education expenses with the help of these resources.
Gordon J. Maier & Company, LLP is dedicated to help you manage your finances with efficacy. Call
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Our Education Planning Resources Include
Articles
- 529 plans
- Education planning basics
Decision tools
- 529 plans
- Determining how much to save for college
- Evaluating college savings options
- Financial aid
- Tax issues
FAQs
- 529 plan basics
- 529 plan expenses and fees
- 529 plans and financial aid
- 529 plans vs. other ways to save for college
- 529 plans: Changing plans (rollover)
- 529 plans: Choosing or changing a beneficiary or account owner
- 529 plans: Death of account owner or beneficiary
- 529 plans: Making contributions
- 529 plans: Tax issues
- Applying to college
- Borrowing against your 529 account
- Choosing a 529 plan
- College costs
- College students and insurance
- Education tax credits
- Financial aid
- Opening a 529 account
- Paying for college
- Saving for college
- Selecting a college
- Student loans
- Understanding 529 investments
- Using or withdrawing 529 funds
Let Us Help You Plan Your Estate
If you're drafting a will for the first time or need to revise any documents of your estate, choose the experts at Gordon J. Maier & Company, LLP to handle all your estate planning work.
- Assets
- Beneficiary designations
- Charitable giving
- Estate planning basics
- Life insurance
- Medicaid planning
- Probate
- Trusts
Decision Tools
- Business planning
- Charitable giving
- Estate planning basics
- Life insurance
- Probate
- Trusts
FAQs
- Estate and gift tax
- Estate planning basics
- Life insurance and estate planning
- Planning for incapacity
- Probate
- Trusts
- Wills
Use Our Resources to Plan Your Retirement in a Better Manner
When you're planning to retire, you should plan your investments, insurance, and housing perfectly. This financial security will help you and your family lead comfortable lives.
Refer to Gordon J. Maier & Company, LLP's resources today. Contact
us today for more information.
Our Retirement Planning Resources
Articles
- Health care issues
- Buying supplemental health insurance - Medigap
- Coordinating long-term care insurance with government benefits
- Health insurance in retirement
- Medicare
- Should you buy long-term care insurance?
- Understanding long-term care insurance
- Housing issues
- Saving for retirement
- Annuities and retirement planning
- Borrowing or withdrawing money from your 401(k) plan
- Choosing a beneficiary for your IRA or 401(k)
- Closing a retirement income gap
- Deciding what to do with your 401(k) plan when you change jobs
- Estimating your retirement income needs
- Evaluating an early retirement offer
- Retirement planning - the basics
- Saving for retirement and a child's education at the same time
- Taking advantage of employer-sponsored retirement plans
- Understanding defined benefit plans
- Understanding IRAs
- What to do after you've been automatically enrolled in your company's retirement plan
Decision tools
- 401(k) plans
- Health care issues
- Medicaid eligibility for nursing home care
- Medicare figures at a glance
- Medicare, Medigap, and Medicaid
- IRAs
- Comparison of traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs
- IRA eligibility flowchart: 2004
- IRA eligibility flowchart: 2005
- Roth IRA future value calculator
- Roth IRA: how much can you contribute in 2004?
- Roth IRA: how much can you contribute in 2005?
- Traditional IRA future value calculator
- Traditional IRA required minimum distribution illustrator
- Traditional IRA: how much can you contribute and deduct in 2004?
- Traditional IRA: how much can you contribute and deduct in 2005?
- Retirement planning basics
FAQs
- Employer-sponsored retirement plans
- Evaluating an early retirement offer
- Health care issues
- Housing issues
- IRAs
- Saving for retirement
Understand Social Security and Its Benefits Better
Social security can help you financially after retirement or an injury that forces you to be off work. You should be aware of how your earnings affect social security and its retirement benefits as well.
Take advantages of Gordon J. Maier & Company, LLP's resources listed below. Get in touch
with us to learn more.
Read Our Social Security Articles, Tools, and FAQs
- Articles
- Decision tools
- How earnings affect social security
- Social security figures at a glance
- Sources of retirement income: filling the social security gap
- FAQs
- Are my social security benefits subject to income tax?
- How can I get an estimate of my social security benefits?
- I'm getting remarried. How will this affect my social security benefits?
- Should I retire now at age 62 and collect social security benefits, or should I wait until age 65?
- What happens if I start collecting social security after age 65?
- When I retire, how much will I receive from social security?
- Will my children receive money from social security when I die?
Get the Latest Tax Information From Our Newsletters
Stay up to date with changing tax laws by referring to our PBQ Newsletter. This newsletter has been developed by Gordon J. Maier & Company, LLP to support users of Peachtree, Business Works, and QuickBooks softwares.
Check Out Our Tax Newsletters
- W-2 Addons
- Handling Accounts Payable
- Year End and Record Retention
- 1099 Reports
- Handling Accounts Receivable and Bad Debt
- Overtime Pay Update
- Update: 11/22/16 - Overtime Rule on Hold Per Court Injunction
- College Savings Plan
- Wisconsin Tax Update
- 1099 Updates
- Business Tax Update June-18
- Business Tax Update Oct-18
- Business Tax Update Jan-19
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