Here's a crazy idea for you: Learn just enough about taxes to ask the right questions. You might be wondering why I'm in a straight jacket and why you should listen to a crazy idea from a guy like me. The answers are amazingly simple: (a) to get noticed, and (b) because I have 20 years experience as a CPA and 15 years before working in-the-trenches in the family business. I've seen good years and lean years. There have been times when i sought professional help one year and tried to copy it the next, totally unaware of the changes that had occured in the world around me. Because i hadn't kept...