The Treasury and the IRS have announced that they will be taking targeted action against corporations employing a technique known as a tax inversion in order to avoid taxation, and have issued a fact sheet and a Notice in that respect. What happens with an inversion, is
Read more →The Individual Shared Responsibility Payment Beginning in 2014, the individual shared responsibility provision of the Affordable Care Act requires each individual to: Maintain a minimum level of health care coverage – known as minimum essential coverage , or Qualify for an exemption , or Make an individual
Read more →On June 18, 2014, the IRS announced comprehensive changes to both the Streamlined and the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (“OVDP”) programs. Such changes to the Streamline Program include: Streamlined Program 1. Expanded to include both U.S. citizens living abroad and U.S. citizens living in the United States 2.
Read more →Commissioner John Koskinen recently cautioned taxpayers they should expect more reductions in IRS services because of budget cuts. Koskinen’s warning comes as the IRS prepares for year-end tax legislation as well as implementing its voluntary return preparer education program and combatting tax-related identity theft. According to Fred
Read more →Section 45R(a) provides for a health insurance tax credit for eligible small employers for any taxable year in which they have a qualified contribution arrangement, have no more than 25 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs), and the average annual wages of its FTEs does not exceed $25,000 (as
Read more →This week the Internal Revenue Service announced the adoption of a “Taxpayer Bill of Rights” that will become the primary document to provide U.S. taxpayers with a better understanding of their rights. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights takes the multiple existing rights embedded in the tax code
Read more →Taxable income as calculated on the U.S. Federal Return for an S corporation flows through to its shareholders and is taxed at the individual level, not subject to self-employment tax. Because the income from the S Corporation is taxed when it is reported on the federal tax return
Read more →When a U.S. Partnership is formed and has one or several foreign individual partners who do not live in the United States, the income of such partnership to the partners must be assessed as to its nature to the partners in order to determine the amount of tax withholding to
Read more →In response to the ever-increasing number of taxpayers wanting online services, the IRS continues to develop online tools to interact with the taxpayers online, Commissioner John Koskinen said on April 2. Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Koskinen added that adequate funding is critical for
Read more →A divided House Ways and Means Committee approved six bipartisan tax bills on April 29. The tax incentive measures, popularly known as tax extenders because they often lapse and are restored by Congress, were taken from a comprehensive tax reform package introduced by Committee Chairman Dave Camp,
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