Posted on January 16, 2020
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Rick Bazzani
The 2020 tax season officially begins on January 27, when the IRS will begin accepting and processing individuals’ electronically filed tax returns for 2019. With the federal filing deadline on Wednesday, April 15, taxpayers have just two-and-a-half months to gather important documents, meet with their tax advisors and pay any outstanding tax liabilities from 2019. […]
Posted on January 14, 2020
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Jeffrey Mutnik
Two of the easiest steps you can take to protect yourself from identity theft, cyberthreats and loss of personal information and/or money is to 1) use strong passwords and 2) rely on multi-factor authentication when logging into their online accounts. With the start of the 2020 tax season and the proliferation of scams targeting taxpayers […]
Posted on December 30, 2019
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Jack Winter
Businesses have until January 31, 2020, to file employee wage statements and non-employee compensation forms with the federal government for tax year 2019. Failure to correctly and timely file this information may result in penalties and back wages and back taxes. The Forms to File Employers must provide IRS Forms W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, […]
Posted on December 30, 2019
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Richard Cabrera
Since Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in December 2017, it has focused a lot of attention on the new law’s lower individual and corporate tax rates. What Congress is not publicizing are some the revenue raisers it wrote into the TCJA to pay for the new tax cuts, including the elimination […]
Posted on December 27, 2019
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Debra Sears
Forward-thinking businesses are embracing technology and the convenience of mobile apps to improve the efficiency of routine administrative tasks, including expense reporting. Not much has changed over the past decade in the way in which employees submit expense reports. Workers are responsible for tracking their expenditures, recording them as line-items on Excel spreadsheets and saving […]
For many small business owners, taxes are a once-a-year chore that requires them to dig through files of paper and pull together all of the documents required by their tax preparers to file their annual returns. Truth be told, maintaining tax compliance and minimizing one’s annual tax bill is a year-round process that demands constant […]
Posted on December 17, 2019
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Joanie Stein
It is not uncommon for entrepreneurs to go into business with family members or to employ close relatives to work in their companies. In fact, putting family members on your payroll can not only help them earn their own money and gain valuable work experience, but it can also provide business owners with some unique […]
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently issued ASU 2019-10, extending the deadline for privately held businesses and not-for-profit organizations to comply with new accounting standards for recognizing leases and credit losses. Both standards were introduced in 2016 in an effort to improve financial reporting transparency and to provide readers of financial statements with a […]
Posted on December 03, 2019
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Jeffrey Mutnik
The IRS recently announced the annual inflation adjustments to various provisions of the tax code for 2020. Taxpayers should consider these changes very carefully as they plan for tax efficiency in 2020 and when they prepare to file their 2020 tax returns in 2021. It is also for taxpayers to keep in mind that these […]
Posted on November 12, 2019
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Karen Lake
The Florida legislature recently voted to again reduce the sales tax that commercial real estate owners charge and receive from tenants to 5.5 percent in 2020 from its current rate of 5.7 percent. Real property rentals subject to the reduced rate include commercial office space, retail, warehouses and certain self-storage units, excluding storage for motor […]
