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Answers to Your Tax Season Questions
The IRS announced it opened the 2024 income tax return filing season on January 29. That’s when the tax agency began accepting and processing 2023 tax year returns. Here are answers to seven tax season questions we receive at this time of year. (1) What are this year’s deadlines? The filing deadline to submit 2023 [...]
Generative AI Can Help Prevent, Detect and Investigate Fraud
You may already be familiar with artificial intelligence (AI) and even use it in business applications. What about generative AI (Gen AI)? Gen AI typically is used to create new content (such as text, images, code and video) from raw data and includes such popular systems as Grok, ChatGPT and DALL-E. Gen AI can also [...]
Tax-Favored Qualified Small Business Corporation Status Could Help Your Thrive
Operating your small business as a Qualified Small Business Corporation (QSBC) could be a tax-wise idea. Tax-free treatment for eligible stock gains QSBCs are the same as garden-variety C corporations for tax and legal purposes — except QSBC shareholders are potentially eligible to exclude from federal income tax 100% of their stock sale gains. That [...]
The Kiddie Tax Could Affect Your Children Until They’re Young Adults
The so-called “kiddie tax” can cause some of a child’s unearned income to be taxed at the parent’s higher marginal federal income tax rates instead of at the usually much lower rates that a child would otherwise pay. For purposes of this federal income tax provision, a “child” can be up to 23 years old. [...]
Timing Counts When Valuing a Business
In today’s uncertain markets, the value of a business may change significantly over time. So it’s important to choose the valuation date carefully. Often, the date is prescribed by law or a judge. But sometimes attorneys or others, such as the executor in an estate valuation, are allowed to decide between different dates. A fundamental [...]
Does Your Business Have Employees Who Get Tips? You May Qualify for a Tax Credit
If you’re an employer with a business where tipping is routine when providing food and beverages, you may qualify for a federal tax credit involving the Social Security and Medicare (FICA) taxes that you pay on your employees’ tip income. Credit fundamentals The FICA credit applies to tips that your staff members receive from customers [...]
It’s Possible (But Not Easy) to Claim a Medical Expense Tax Deduction
One of your New Year’s resolutions may be to pay more attention to your health. Of course, that may cost you. Can you deduct your out-of-pocket medical costs on your tax return? It depends. Many expenses are tax deductible, but there are several requirements and limitations that make it difficult for many taxpayers to actually [...]
How Forensic Accountants Use a Lifestyle Analysis to Find Hidden Assets
Sometimes divorcing spouses or sparring former business partners illegally hide assets to prevent their fair division. And fraud perpetrators almost always try to hide their ill-gotten gains. In such cases, sociological information — gathered as part of a lifestyle analysis — can be almost as revealing as financial data. Here’s what forensic accountants examine when [...]
Defer a Current Tax Bill with a Like-Kind Exchange
If you’re interested in selling commercial or investment real estate that has appreciated significantly, one way to defer a tax bill on the gain is with a §1031 “like-kind” exchange. With this transaction, you exchange the property rather than sell it. Although the real estate market has been tough recently in some locations, there are [...]
Treasury and IRS Issue Guidance on the Qualified Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit
As reported via IR-2024-16 on 1/19/2024 The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of the Treasury today issued Notice 2024-20 to provide guidance on eligible census tracts for the qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit (the tax credit applicable to the installation of EV chargers) and to announce the intent to propose regulations for [...]
FinCEN Alerts BOI Reporting Companies to Fraud Attempts
As the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) opens its beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting portal, its BOI webpage, reflects a fraud alert for individuals and entities who may be subject to beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting. According to the FinCEN fraud alert, individuals and entities that may be subject to the beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting [...]
New Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements Effective 1/1/24
Starting in 2024 newly formed, corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs), limited partnerships, and other entities that file formation papers with a state’s Secretary of State’s office (or similar government agency) must file a report with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) providing specified information regarding the entity’s “beneficial owners” (the so-called BOI [...]
IRS Launches New Webpage with FAQs on ERTC Voluntary Disclosure Program
The IRS just put up a new webpage and released FAQs having to do with the recently announced Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) Voluntary Disclosure Program. ERTC Voluntary Disclosure Program On December 21, 2023, the IRS announced a new Voluntary Disclosure Program for businesses who claimed the ERC erroneously. The program is part of the [...]
IRS Lets Employers Repay Questionable ERTC Claims at a Discounted Rate
As reported via IR-2023-247 on 12/21/2023 As part of an ongoing initiative aimed at combating dubious Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) claims, the Internal Revenue Service launched a new Voluntary Disclosure Program to help businesses who want to pay back the money they received after filing ERTC claims in error. The new disclosure program, which [...]
IRS Continues Dissuading Questionable ERTC Claims
As reported via IR-2023-230 on 12/6/2023 As part of continuing efforts to combat dubious Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) claims, the Internal Revenue Service is sending an initial round of more than 20,000 letters to taxpayers notifying them of disallowed ERTC claims. IRS is disallowing claims to entities that: did not exist, or did not [...]
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