If you financed a new car in 2025 or 2026 you may be able to write off the interest payment on your car loan. But before you celebrate this newer federal income tax break, let two CPAs walk you through the fine print.

Host: Susan Spears, CPA, CEO of the Utah Association of CPAs Guest: Matt Gardner, CPA, Tax Director for CBIZ in Salt Lake City, Utah

About Your Host & Guest

Talk To Your CPA host Susan Speirs, CPA, is the CEO of the Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants. Susan brings decades of firm ownership experience to the podcast.

Matt Gardner, CPA, is the Tax Director in the CBIZ Salt Lake City office. He is a CPA and attorney with 30 years of experience in public accounting and industry. His background includes Big 4 firm experience, serving as CFO of a biopharmaceutical company, leading as the tax director for the North American division of a Fortune 100 transportation company, and providing tax advisory work associated with private equity.

Matt specializes in tax advisory, tax credits and incentives, and state and local tax. He helps businesses identify opportunities to save money while making complex tax issues easier to understand.

Episode description: You want your donations to make a difference. In this episode two licensed CPAs, Susan Speirs and Stacy Weight talk about how to know you’re giving to a legitimate cause, how to flag a charity scam, and common misperceptions taxpayers have about claiming charitable deductions.

Host: Susan Spears, CPA, CEO of the Utah Association of CPAs Guest: Stacy Weight, CPA, Chief Administrat

ive Officer, Utah Community Action.

About Your Host & Guest

Talk To Your CPA host Susan Speirs, CPA, is the CEO of the Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants. Susan brings decades of firm ownership experience to the podcast.

Stacy Weight, CPA, is the Chief Administrative Officer of Utah Community Action, which runs 6 distinct programs, one of which is Utah’s largest Head Start program serving approximately 1,400 children and their families living in poverty. She also has served as Senior Innovator/VP of Finance for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Stacy has been a licensed CPA in Utah since 2009.

Could your tax return be waving a red flag to the IRS? In this episode host Susan Speirs, CPA, discusses top audit triggers and what to do and what not to do if you get flagged for an IRS audit. Susan also chats with longtime Utah journalist Debbie Dujanovic about the time Debbie got caught up in an IRS audit, why her tax return got flagged, and the lessons Debbie learned.

About Your Host & Guest

Talk To Your CPA host Susan Speirs, CPA, is CEO of the Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants. Susan brings decades of firm ownership experience to the podcast.

Debbie Dujanovic spent more than two decades as a journalist in Utah. She retired from the profession in 2025 and now works as the member engagement director for the Utah Association of CPAs.

Talk To Your CPA is proudly powered by the Utah Association of CPAs.