Washington Rotary Club

Rotary Club of Washington, GA featured one of it’s own longtime members, Steve Albertson, as its luncheon speaker yesterday. Steve has owned his own Certified Public Accounting practice in Washington for 31 years. He reviewed key areas of interest in the new OBBB (One Big Beautiful Bill) Tax Bill that became law for the taxable year of 2025.

Notable sections of the 3,200-page OBBB include: Fact versus Fiction - Inflation Adjustments; No Tax on Tips; No Tax on Social Security; No Tax on Overtime Wages; and deductible new car loan interest. Media versus the actual law.

Steve also shared some fun facts about the IRS. It was President Lincoln in 1862 that signed into law a revenue-raising measure to help pay for Civil War expenses. The measure created a Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the nation’s first income tax. It levied a 3% tax on income’s between $600- $10,000 and a 5% tax on incomes of more that $10,000.

Rotary Club of Washington, Georgia hosted two students attending Augusta University, Medical College of Georgia at today’s luncheon, who are currently completing a clinical rotation in their medical school education and training studies at Wills Memorial Hospital. Ashley Oh, a 3rd-year medical student and Heidi David a 4th-year medical student each spoke to their clinical experiences in Family Medicine, ER and Rehab at Wills Memorial.

As guests of Rotarian Amy Johnston, the two are working under the close tutelage of local physicians, Lester Johnston, M.D. and Ra’Shead Pompey, BSK, DS, D.O. during their Clinical Rotation. Upon graduation from AU, Heidi hopes to be accepted for her Residency in OBGYN and Ashley plans to pursue a Residency in Surgery. We welcome them both to Washington.

Rotarian Amy Johnston also gave a brief overview of the construction expansion plans for Millers Bistro which includes apartment housing upstairs in the coming year.