Ganze & Company is an integral member of the community. Our team members are involved in all facets of the Napa Valley including the arts, sports, schools and a wide range of non-profit organizations. We are your neighbors and are committed to helping you and the community succeed and grow.

Our website provides a profile of our firm and the services we offer, and is designed to be a helpful resource tool to our valued clients and visitors. Our dedication to superior client service requires continuing professional education and cutting edge technology to provide the highest quality professional service and guidance. We have included useful resources such as informative articles (Newsletter) and interactive financial calculators (Financial Tools). In addition, we have taken the time to gather many links to external websites that we felt would be of interest to our clients and visitors (Internet Links).

We pride ourselves on being proactive and responsive to our clients' inquiries and suggestions. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may have – we'd love to hear from you.

“As a CPA, I will exercise sensitive professional and moral judgments, in the public interest, at the highest level of integrity, by being objective and independent, using due care and having honorable behavior even if it hurts me.” – Dr. Rod Redding, CPA

October Compliance Calendar

As an individual or business, it is your responsibility to be aware of and to meet your tax filing/reporting deadlines. This calendar summarizes important tax reporting and filing data for individuals, businesses and other taxpayers for the month of October 2008. Please click here for details.

2008 Year-End Tax Planning

As 2008 comes to an end, many individuals are thinking ahead to the next filing season. There is just a short window of time to engage in effective year-end tax planning. Many tax breaks are up in the air, with their continuation dependent upon legislation, such as whether Congress will make the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent. The possibility of additional economic stimulus measures as well as new tax cuts in 2009 make tax planning for 2008 a bit more complicated. Through traditional tax planning methods and assessment of the ever-changing tax landscape, prudent taxpayers can take advantage of tax benefits and possibly avoid unwelcome consequences. Please click here for more information.

Your Business' Bottom Line

When your business' bottom line is not as healthy as it should be, laying people off eventually may become your only option. However, before you cut people from your business, consider implementing cost-cutting measures for a healthier bottom line and greater peace of mind. Please click here for more information.

Third-Party Reporting

More third-party reporting is coming. Treasury, Congress, and the IRS are all entertaining proposals to require the reporting of income that currently does not have to be reported to the IRS. IRS National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson reports that there are 45 million taxpayers who have a small business or are self-employed. She reports that not all of them have professional help, and that the IRS is not adequately helping them. Please click here for more information.

Getting Started to Getting Help: Resources for your Business

If you own a business, you should be aware that there are a diverse number of resources to help you on the road to developing and growing your business. Many are targeted to the small business owner. Much of the help is free or at a low cost for qualifying small business owners. Please click here for more information.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE

A new law requires that CPAs and all other personal financial service providers disclose their privacy policies to clients in a written notice. These policies pertain to non-public personal information about current and former clients.

Of course, Ganze & Company has always protected your right to privacy with professional standards that are even more stringent than those required by law.

In order to assist you with your professional needs and, in some cases, to comply with professional guidelines, we retain records relating to the professional services we provide you. We have rigorous physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in place to protect these records, and they are accessed internally only on an as-needed basis.

Non-public personal information is never collected without your authorization, and we do not disclose such information except as required or permitted by law. Permitted disclosures include third parties who assist us in providing services to you, such as CCH Incorporated, the vendor providing us with our tax compliance software, ProSystem fx Tax.