Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from Silicon Valley Publishing Company and Michael Gray, CPA.

With wars continuing in Ukraine and Gaza, it seems hard to celebrate.

Somehow, we have to get on with our lives here, while praying for peace and sending financial suppot for charities providing aid to refugees.

The economic news in the U.S. is actually pretty good.  Inflation seems to be calming down.  The Federal Reserve says it might lower the discount rate soon.  There are still opportunities to lock in higher interest rates for some investments.  The stock market finished strong for last year. 

Best wishes to you and your family for you to accomplish your dreams and to be safe in turbulent times.

Your CPA, enrolled agent, attorney and financial planner should be working with you to help you achieve your financial goals, but it's up to you to ask for that help.

Christmas Sale 2022

All our books are half off until January 31, 2023! No code necessary. Our inventory is extremely limited, though, so if you want one of our books, don’t wait.

Our office manager, Dawn Siemer, will be on vacation between December 15th and January 3rd. Since she’s the one that checks email and processes book orders, your shipment will be delayed if you purchase it between those dates.

New shipping and sales tax policy.

We tried including the shipping and tax in our book prices, but decided that it would be better if our shopping cart handled that instead. We are now charging sales taxes only to people who live in California. If you live in California, you will be charged taxes as if you purchased the books from our location in person in San Jose: 9.25%.

2018 Edition of How to Use Roth and IRA Accounts To Provide a Secure Retirement Now Available!

How to Use Roth and IRA Accounts To Provide a Secure Retirement has been updated to include up-to-date information regarding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, enacted last December by President Donald Trump.

We are now working on bringing you an updated Secrets of Tax Planning for Employee Stock Options and Real Estate Tax Handbook. We hope to release these books by the end of summer.

2018 Edition of Employee Stock Options, Executive Tax Planning Now Available!

The 2018 edition of Employee Stock Options, Executive Tax Planning is now available on Amazon and right here! I'll have a new cover image posted shortly to reflect the new title. I thought I could make one myself, but it turns out I need our graphic designer to do it. Oops!

The 2018 edition of How to Use Roth and IRA Accounts to Provide a Secure Retirement is at the publisher and will be available soon - possibly next week. The 2018 edition of the Real Estate Tax Handbook is being edited. I expect it to be available before the end of the summer. A new edition of Secrets of Tax Planning for Employee Stock Options is also in the works.

Michael Gray is retired

As of January 1, 2018, Michael Gray is retired from preparing tax returns and offering personal tax consultations. Michael Gray, CPA is still around, and available for consulting with other CPA firms. Our plan is to continue to offer all our email newsletters, at least through tax season, and to update our stock option books this year to reflect the new tax law passed by President Donald Trump at the end of last year.

We're Moving!

Michael Gray is retiring from public practice as a CPA at the end of the year. Michael Gray, CPA and Silicon Valley Publishing Co. will still be around, but we're moving to a home office. Hopefully, we can maintain a similar level of customer service in our new location. We definitely expect to be releasing new titles in the near future!

2015 Edition of How to Use Roth & IRA Accounts Now Available!

Finally! The 2015 Edition of How to Use Roth & IRA Accounts to Provide a Secure Retirement is now available, just in time for 2016! Our prerelease sale is over, but now you will receive your book very quickly once it is ordered. You can purchase them through our website or Amazon.com.

Shipping is now included!

Due to limitations of our shopping cart program, shipping is now included in the price of books on our website. Sales tax will still be added to your purchase if you live in California.

In other news, Employee Stock Options - Executive Tax Planning, 2015 Edition is now in and ready for shipping! If you have already ordered a copy, it will go in the mail today. If you order now, you will receive your book in a few days.

Special Prerelease Offers!

We now have special prerelease offers for the 2015 editions of Employee Stock Options - Executive Tax Planning and How to Use Roth & IRA Accounts to Provide a Secure Retirement.

For a brief time, you can order these books for half price!

Click on our Products link to order.

This offer will only last until the books have been published! I expect to receive Employee Stock Options - Executive Tax Planning as soon as next week. How to Use Roth & IRA Accounts to Provide a Secure Retirement will hopefully be available by the end of the month.

Upcoming Books!

Michael Gray has finally finished new editions of Employee Stock Options: Executive Tax Planning and How to use Roth & IRA Accounts to Provide a Secure Retirement! Both manuscripts have been sent to the printer, and will soon be available for presale on our website.

I expect Employee Stock Options:  Executive Tax Planning to arrive in two weeks. We'll start shipping as soon as they become available.

How to Use Roth & IRA Accounts to Provide a Secure Retirement probably won't arrive until closer to the end of the month.

These books are already available for sale to our newsletter subscribers. If you would like to be among the first to buy upcoming books (but mostly upcoming deadlines and changes in the tax law on these topics), subscribe to Michael Gray, CPA's Option Alert or Michael Gray, CPA's Tax and Business Insight.

Welcome, Michael Gray, CPA Newsletter Subscribers!

Now that Dawn Siemer (that's me) is back after carpal tunnel surgery and tax season is over, we've finally had the time to send new issues of our newsletters, Michael Gray, CPA's Tax & Business Insight, Michael Gray, CPA's Real Estate Tax Letter, and Michael Gray, CPA's Option Alert and let our subscribers know about this new website!

So, welcome subscribers! You can now purchase our books online using your credit card. I promise our website will be kept up to date with our newest books and latest sale prices.

If you aren't a subscriber yet, and you'd like to know about our best sales and upcoming book releases and/or receive breaking tax news, click the links above to find out which newsletter(s) are right for you. Right now, they're all free. Michael Gray, CPA's Tax & Business Insight is our general tax newsletter, and Michael Gray, CPA's Option Alert is about taxation of employee stock options.

All our books are currently on sale for 25% off until May 31st.

Welcome to the Silicon Valley Publishing Company Site!

Don't let the title fool you:  our Real Estate Tax Handbook, 2014 Edition, was just released in December of 2014 and includes all the latest updates to the tax laws. It only became available on Amazon.com in January. If you'd like the e-book version, Amazon is still the only place you can get that, though I'll look into offering it on this site as well.

After years of dealing with our book promotion using individual websites and pages, I finally created a website for our publishing company! This is still a work in progress, so if you see any errors, please let me know.

Since we prefer you buy directly from us, our books are always offered at a discount from the cover price. Our current sale prices are good at least until the end of February (2015).