Steve Braunias: The lost and found - A portrait of life inside a rest home
26 minutes to read Summer in Auckland can often turn dark and oppressive. On days when the slow approach of a tropical thunderstorm turned the sky black and drained the Waitākere ranges of colour, I dreaded heading out to the Roseridge rest home in Henderson. It was deathly weather and it trapped the residents inside as surely as lockdown. They were housebound, feeble. Old age is a slope of decline and fall – the physical indignities, the mind wandering into some lunar wasteland. A visit on days like that seemed a bleak and cheerless way to spend my time but in fact every time I visited Roseridge in the summer of 2020-21, I left on a high, as though I had emerged from some strange and magical kingdom.
As the tax filing deadline approaches, here are some planning strategies
By: Web Staff
and last updated 2021-04-01 18:16:29-04
The tax filing deadline has been extended until May 17, so Carl Carlson, CEO and Founder of Carlson Financial, is providing tax planning insight.
He said tax planning doesnât just involve whether to put money into a traditional IRA or a Roth IRA or how much to put into your retirement plan at work; it also involves things like Social Security claiming strategies, Roth conversions, which investments to own in which types of accounts, what types of taxable accounts to own and how much money to have in each, what type of insurance products to own and how to use them, and when it comes to itemized deductions the possible use of strategies like bunching and others.
A recent case before the Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals
1 determined that a Project Completion
Incentive applying to employees on a construction project
(the Plan ) was not governed by the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974 ( ERISA ).
2
Former laborer Employees of the construction manager Employer
filed a lawsuit in Louisiana State Court asserting that the
Employer was required to pay them the Project Completion
Incentive under the Plan for the time spent on the
project-despite conceding that they quit the project before
completion and were therefore not eligible for the incentive under
the Plan terms.
3 The Employees asserted that the
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