If you hire a domestic worker to provide services in or around your home, you probably have a tax liability that you don’t know about – or one that you do know about but are ignoring. Either situation can come back to bite you. When the worker is your employee, your liability includes both withholding […]
Accounting takes time. And the last thing you need when you’re working with your company’s finances is an activity that takes unnecessary minutes. If you’ve created a record or transaction once, you don’t want to have to enter the information a second or third time. That’s why using QuickBooks Online is so far superior to […]
Especially in the early days of a business, it can be natural to want to handle as many day-to-day tasks yourself – bookkeeping included. Sometimes, it’s in an effort to save money. Often, entrepreneurs just feel like they’re in a better position to handle everything themselves. Regardless, this situation does seem to play out regularly. […]
The type of business that you’re running has major implications in virtually all areas of your operations, especially when it comes to federal taxes. An S Corporation (or S Corp for short) is one that passes corporate income, losses, deductions, and credits to its shareholders. A C Corporation (or C Corp for short) is one […]
Individuals are always looking for tax deductions that can reduce their tax liability. But what is the actual tax benefit derived from a tax deduction? There is no straightforward answer because some deductions are “above the line”, others must be itemized, some must exceed a threshold amount before being deductible, and certain ones are not […]
If your 2022 refund or balance due turns out not to be the desired amount, you may want to consider adjusting your withholding based on your projected tax for 2023. If you need assistance, please call this office. W-9 Collection – If you are operating a business, then you are required to issue a Form […]
Employers should be wary of third parties advising them to claim the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) when they may not qualify, according to the IRS. (IR 2022-183, 10/19/2022) As described by the agency, the ERC is a refundable tax credit designed for businesses that continued paying employees while the businesses were shut down due to […]
Recently, the Social Security Administration (SSA) published their annual release detailing changes to the Social Security wage base and the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Click here to read the SSA release in full. In a helpful article published by the Journal of Accountancy, Martha Waggoner details the […]
This article explains that in 2021 the IRS announced that “refund claims for section 41 research credits must include detailed information in five specific areas, with claims failing to meet these requirements deemed invalid. The IRS provided a one-year transition period during which examiners could correspond with taxpayers on the required information and give them […]
This article explains how the FED is “deadly serious about reducing inflation” and does not wish to stop until inflation is at 2%. Lower inflation rates seem appealing, however, lowering inflation rates will increase interest rates. Fed Chair Jerome Powell explains “these steady increases will almost certainly mean higher unemployment and weaker economic growth until […]
