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 January 30, 2020
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Debra Sears
QuickBooks has long been the go-to financial reporting and accounting solution for small-to-mid-size businesses. However, as these companies grow and take on more complex organizational structures, they may find it challenging to combine the financial data and analytics of multiple entities. Rather than continuing to operate with sub-par data or investing significant dollars into robust […]
Posted on January 29, 2020
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Lewis Taub
The IRS updated the standard mileage rates that taxpayers may use to substantiate the costs they incur, and may be reimbursed by their employers, when they use their personal cars, vans or trucks for business purposes. These are the rates taxpayers will use beginning on Jan. 1, 2020, for the tax returns they will file […]
Posted on January 21, 2020
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Andreea Cioara
The IRS recently updated the daily rates that employers may use to reimburse their employees for the ordinary and necessary expenses incurred when traveling for business purposes, including the costs that workers pay out of their own pockets for lodging, meals and entertainment, rental cars and car-share services. In general, companies have two options when […]
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 January 09, 2020
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Lewis Kevelson
Art collectors who accumulate artwork over their lifetimes tend to have limited interest in selling any of the pieces in their collections, according to a recent study conducted by UBS. Instead, most collectors develop an emotional attachment to the artwork they acquire and prefer to display their collections in their homes for their own personal […]
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 […]
