It 4/18 And you know what that means? Taxes, but it's okay if you don't love doing your taxes because we're here today to tell you all of the CPA love stories that maybe will help you see X's and O's behind those 1040s and W nines. I'm Alisha Rai.
I'm Sarah Wendell. That's very cute. Welcome to lovestruck daily where we love taxes and romance and we are here to bring a true love story to your eardrums each and every weekday. I'm in love with you. Love with You. Heads up, lovestruck daily listeners we have big news don't really show we do well, it's big news for me. All right. I'm a little excited to hear like I'm very excited
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it was a polite request. It was not bullying. It was a polite request.
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I am full of questions, but I would love yours as well.
Nothing is off the table, send us your queries. It's tax time. Now I don't get excited about annual tax times because I'm a small business. So I pay taxes 444 times a year. Quarterly Yeah, so right. But I will say one thing I love is that when I pay my payroll taxes I pay for my employee, I pay payroll taxes, I pay into her Social Security. And I always say I'm paying my taxes. So when you are old, and sitting on the porch, and having wine and a joint on your retirement with your social security, I just want you to think of me.
Oh, that's so nice. That's a nice way of looking at payroll tax.
I mean, taxes are taxes get such a bad rap the world a lot of very powerful, terrible reasons. But the truth is when you pay taxes and you have a functioning government taxes by use of RAD shit, like roads that don't have potholes in them, right is that do not fall down like amazing things and you correct me if I am wrong, or in fact a tax attorney,
I am I am a tax attorney. So I've I've a great fondness for taxes. I love the like I know it's very confusing for a lot of people and I say this yes, it's on purpose confusing. And there are a lot of complications in the code that probably shouldn't be there. But there is something so pleasing when you look when you input the numbers and things subtract and add together and now I will say I've never really done I'm not an individual tax attorney so I don't really handle individual tax returns. So when I do my 1040 The I am just a normal person trying to do my job. But but there is something so pleasing about seeing numbers line up and ended up from each other and sometimes not do that. But it's it's analytical
taxes are part of being in a society right?
They're a part of being a society. i And I will say I think tax like IRS professionals are some of the nicest people I've ever met. And we get a really bad rap and I'm here to defend the reputations and tell you that they are lovely anytime I've called the IRS whether it was for me or for a client in the past, you know they have always been as helpful as humanly possible. absolutely want to help you because they're trying to take your money but they want to help you. So be nice to your IRS professional.
And I can tell you a little a little tiny little teeny tiny love story. Sure. One of my favorite sub Reddits is tonight's dinner where people post pictures of tonight's dinner does what it says on the tin and there is a 17 year old who is regularly posting pictures of the meals that she is making for her mom who isn't a tax preparing. She's a tax accountant. She's a CPA so she is super monster doll busy right now working late doing all of these taxes. She is really really busy and he's getting home late and her daughter has made is a wonderful meal and cleaned the kitchen and her mom just walks in, sits down and has a gorgeous dinner and the meals that this 17 year old is preparing are not things that I could have pulled off at 17. And it was just so lovely to see their posts every night. Oh, that is so nice. In addition to our absolute love of dinner, I'm not gonna lie. I do love dinner. I know that there are many people out there who think there is nothing less romantic than doing your taxes. And we have some stories to prove otherwise, because the lovestruck team who are amazing, set out to find the cutest tax love stories and how some CPAs all over the country met while doing your taxes and have been in love ever since. Shall we run the numbers? Let's do it. I'm so funny. The first story I'm going to tell you about is hope and Alan egg Dulsky CPA, these two lovebirds met at an accounting firm in 1979, where they both worked in Connecticut. And after one month of dating, Alan was like, That's it I'm proposing. He knew that she was it. Hope, however, was not so sure. And seeing as they hardly knew each other and they were colleagues. She had some reservations. So he did what any smart CPA would do. He asked if he could file an extension on his offer of marriage. I liked this guy. I love a good tax smartass. So after the tax deadline of that year, when they could eat and sleep and breathe normally, he renewed his offer and asked her to marry him. And in this time, she did say yes, and they were married. Within nine months of their first meeting. They have since opened their own accounting firm. And hope has the following advice about why their relationship works, especially when they work together as business and life partners. respect each other's territory. You can't both be the expert on everything. That's the key thing that makes it work, which is really good advice, isn't it?
That's fantastic advice.
I mean, honestly, you can't both be the expert. And there are definitely moments where we're dealing with something and I will just say Alright, I got this. I'm in charge I can handle or when we're cooking together. One of us is the head cook and one of us is a sous chef and takes direction and does dishes and it works out really really well. Another Love Story is between Tina and Ben Angelo, it was certainly not love at first sight. Ben was a recent graduate in Lafayette, Indiana looking to get a job at the accounting firm where Tina was employed and after his interview, Tina told her bosses not to hire him because he had to borrow his mom's car in order to get to the interview, which she thought did not bode well. Yikes. His interview went too well for him though, and they could not not hire him they had to hire him. So they did. And Tina did not mind letting her disappointment show.
Slowly over the years despite that very prickly first interaction the two warm to each other and after they started dating, they got married shortly after. They have since opened their own accounting firms still in Lafayette, Indiana, primarily run by Tina. And Ben uses his PhD as an assistant professor at Ball State. They now have four children, and the flexibility and variety in their work environments works really well for them. And when asked about making their relationship work with their jobs, and having those jobs in common, Ben says, respect each other professionally and love each other personally. Be supportive of the other person to pursue the opportunities that they want to pursue. That's lovely. Oh, I love that. Respect each other professionally and love each other personally.
That's so nice.
That is that is a smart dude. Good on you, Tina for marrying him. That's right there. On our final love story. Among the accountant world is Eric and Angelo Wharton Berger. These two CPAs obviously like taxes because they're CPAs. But it was a slightly less stuffy topic that really bonded them. They have a love of live music. I can see you smiling. I know you guys love to go out together. Yeah, we do. Their mutual love, have fun outdoor activities included, heading to opening day for the Cincinnati Reds on April Fool's Day so they could go see their favorite team. And I will say every year when I was growing up, the Cincinnati Reds would often play the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh on Mother's Day. And since Cincinnati and Pittsburgh aren't that far apart. You'd have fans from both Groups from both places at the game. And it was Mother's Day. So lots of people are taking their moms to the ballpark. And it was really nice, lovely environment. So I'm just like, Oh, that's so great. You went to see the roads. I know exactly what that's like, on their way to meet up with friends at a bar before the game. Eric, who was a prankster pretended to trip and fall and started to act like He twisted his ankle, oh noes, and Angie started to freak out. And she kneels down next to him, which is when he corrected himself, clearly unharmed, hopped up on one knee and proposed to her just for the end of tax season fed. So give you this couple has not opened their own accounting firm. They prefer to keep their work independent, even if that means they see each other a little bit less during the busiest season when it all started. Eric's advice for CPAs in love, definitely use your time off, get your work done. And if you have time off, take it. I agree with that one. Absolutely.
I just want to note that our team sourced these stories from the Journal of accountancy, which is very cute.
Yes. An entire newsletter of CPA couples love really is everywhere. And you know, I will bet actual money, actual taxable money, I will bet that that is one of their most popular newsletters and that more people probably any other. I'm sorry, love stories. Next week, CPA dropped love, love and
finance just go together. I
think they really do and you you can't merge your life with someone without talking about money. You just yeah, you have to discuss the finances. And we've heard this before, right?
Right. In our prenup episode, we discussed this, but it is so important to sit down with your partner, even if you're not tax attorneys. Or if you're not into taxes and just say like, this is what my this is what a snapshot of my finances looks like, what is yours look like? Okay, cool. This is how we're gonna maybe divide up, you know, our assets, or maybe how we're gonna handle this sort of thing. I do know that this year I am I have a deadline, I'm swamped on tax day. So Kai is filing my extension for me. Oh, yeah. And he's also like, he did taxes a lot. He did California state taxes, but he worked, you know, in the tax environment as well. So we, when we first met actually, that was something that we had in common, because we were both. We're appreciative of Texas.
So Adam is a 5%, owner of my business of the LLC that I own and operate and he does all of the taxes. Like his his job is the math part. Because yeah, I'm not good at the math part. And if I did not have Adam, I would most certainly have an accountant because I would definitely screw up and then be anxious about screwing up even if I didn't screw up. Because I don't want to mess this up. So Adam does our taxes quarterly for the business and helps me figure out you know, we have a finance meeting every month, I've told you this, right? Yeah, you have Yeah, on the 15th of every month, we talked about our finances. And we talked about what we're saving up for we talked about what we're spending money on this year, it's a roof.
So I'm very excited. That is very exciting.
And it's important to talk about what are you doing with the money that you have? And right now Adam is out with our older son visiting colleges, yet another thing to spend money on? Yeah, they're visiting colleges this week. Oh, my gosh, where did the time go? I don't know. It's funny.
It's funny how he got older. And we say the same age is
amazing. Time is such a wild thing like that.
And we we have talked a lot about invisible labor. Yeah. So it is very much a case where even if you're not in business with someone, they are in business with you if you're together of a shared household, like they're not my books anymore, there are books because he he helps to make sure that the book is written and that the house is clean and the food is made and I'm not starving. So I mean, it's it's a partnership, whether you're officially 5050 In a LLC, or whether you're not and it's
not as if chi is writing the romance novels, but the romance novels do not get written without
Oh, yeah, no, they wouldn't be written especially in this pandemic, they would not have gotten written they would have been nothing. Anything
that contributes to your households. Stability is important. It's important to acknowledge that work it whether whether it's monetized or not. Yeah, also I do like money.
I do. I like when Sarah, do you have a love to go for this very financial podcast that
I do. And this is from Ben Angelo. Respect each other professionally and love each other personal. I loved that. Yep. That is such good advice. That's so cute. Yeah, that's poetry. It really is. And it's so true. So true. Well, we would love to know your feelings about love and taxes are Both you can email us at low star daily frolic dot media. You can follow us on Instagram and Twitter at lovestruck daily we would love to hear from you and your love stories. We've had so many guests who emailed us and we would love for you to be one of them as well. Our researcher is Jesse Epstein. Our editor is Jen Jacobs. We are produced by Abigail steckler and little Scorpion studios with executive producer frolic media. This is an iHeartRadio podcast wherever you are in the world. We wish you a very, very lovely happily ever after today I'm in love with you say to you with you I'm in love with you