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 →As an Entrepreneur one of our primary concerns is to keep costs down and increase revenue. But to increase revenue does NOT mean we have to put all of our money into marketing our firm and hiring the best PR firm out there. Mark Cuban sums it
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 →Being happy is behind every single human goal, objective, mission and wish to achieve that “something.” It has never truly been defined concisely, but everyone seems to aim for it. The achievement of happiness, the quest for happiness, the search for happiness. The U.S. Declaration of Independence
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,
Read more →The IRS plans to implement Form 1023-EZ, a Streamlined Application for Recognition of Exemption Under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, during the summer of 2014. According to the IRS Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division (TE/GE), about 60 to 70 percent of applications for Code
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