Texas NATP

05/15/2026

Your least favorite client just informed you that they were no longer interested in your services. Does this properly express how you feel about it?

05/13/2026

Tax prep is a lot like a Corvette…
It may look simple from the outside, but real performance comes from what’s under the hood.

05/09/2026

Ever heard the old saying “Can’t get blood from a turnip?” Ever try to tell this to the IRS? (Maybe blood from your foot is easier than from your arm. OUCH!)

Join Texas NATP and attend our Sun-Sand-Sea-CPE conference on South Padre Island, TX in October.

05/07/2026

Most families spend summer making memories at Disney…

The families building generational wealth spend summer teaching their kids about money, investing, taxes, and ownership too. 💰📚

One trip creates moments.
One lesson can change a family tree.

Teach them:
• How taxes work
• Why credit matters
• How investing compounds
• The difference between assets and liabilities
• Why business ownership matters

Because someday your child may remember the vacation…
…but they’ll definitely remember the wisdom that built their future.

05/03/2026

A washing machine handles laundry loads.
A tax preparer handles client loads.

And if you ignore either one too long…
things start piling up fast.

Detergent and continuing education. Both have great effects.

05/03/2026

Please join us Tuesday, May 5 at 12:30 p.m. CST, for our Texas Tax Tuesday Talk, entitled, "Whew, What Do We Do Now?" This is promised to be an exciting event, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Here’s the registration link.

04/30/2026

“If God has closed the door, quit jiggling the handle.” -Anonymous

04/30/2026

Make your reservations now to attend our Sun, Sand and CPE event on South Padre Island, TX in October. The beach never disappoints and neither does our educational offerings.

04/23/2026

New word of the day.

04/16/2026

"I bought them. I housed them. I lost every single one." — Mrs. Davis

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE / AUDIT DIVISION — IRS auditor Mr. Kemper was assigned the case of Mrs. Janet Davis, a 17-year third-grade teacher, on Monday after her 2025 federal tax return listed 4,000 Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils as individual dependents, each identified by purchase date and assigned a first name beginning with the letters A through Z on a rotating cycle. Mr. Kemper, who has processed approximately 14,000 audits over his career, told supervisors the return was "the most thorough documentation of financial loss I have ever encountered" and that Mrs. Davis had arrived to the audit meeting with a 340-page printout of Amazon receipts organized by month and a binder she referred to only as "the ledger."

"I have provided for these pencils since August. I have sheltered them. I have sharpened them. I have watched them leave and never come back," Mrs. Davis told Mr. Kemper, who scratched his head and confirmed that the current tax code does not permit writing instruments to be claimed as dependents regardless of the emotional or financial relationship between the filer and the pencils. Mrs. Davis pushed the binder across the desk, opened it to a page marked "September — Casualties," and pointed to a handwritten list of 47 pencils she described as "confirmed missing" during a single week, none of which were returned despite what she called "a no-questions-asked amnesty box that no child has ever used."

Mr. Kemper has denied the dependent claims but recommended Mrs. Davis apply for the $300 educator expense deduction, which she told him "wouldn't cover October."

04/16/2026