How It Happened: My Personal Parkinson’s Story as originally published in the Parkinson’s Journal 

Is it true?  Can I really?  There must be some catch?

These are some of the questions I received recently to my suggestion of giving taxes to charity.  My answer is a frank, ‘yes’. You can give some of your taxes to any qualified public charity.  The “giving” I am talking about is called Qualified Charitable Deduction (QCD). 

Recent History

Last December Congress made a permanent provision in the tax code.  Please note, there are two catches.  First, you must be age 70 ½ or older, and second, you must make the donation only from an Individual Retirement Account (IRA). 

Do you know how many buzzwords there are? Just the word “Buzzword” brings up over 6 million results on the Internet.  There is even a Buzzword of the Day.  Dictionary.com defines Buzzword as a word or phrase, often sounding authoritative or technical, that is a vogue term in a particular profession, field of study, popular culture, etc. 

Financial planning has become such a buzzword resulting in over 22 million Internet search results. The term, “Financial Planning” appears quite often in all types of media.  But, what is it?