Probably all of us have had some interactions with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at this point. Either providing more advanced search results, creating presentations or writing papers, automating manual processes, or even having a discussion on the phone (yes, there are many sales and marketing tools available). Also, you have probably seen an increase of advertising
Back in 2022, the Secure Act 2.0 was passed and made numerous changes in retirement plans and individual retirement plans, included in the over 90 provisions, there was a Saver's credit to be applicable from 2027. The interesting part about this provision is that from 2027, "... by making annual contributions of up to $2,000
The Federal Trade Commission is extremely busy targeting businesses that are misleading consumer or employ deceptive claims for money making opportunities. Misleading consumer on social media, which it is extremely common even in the tax industry ensuring $50,000 of tax savings for clients on average, a million dollar tax refund, etc. might generate a
Over the past twelve months, we’ve noticed a concerning rise in IRS deficiency notices (CP3219N) sent to taxpayers. In most cases, these letters result from discrepancies between filed tax returns and the IRS's records from third-party sources. When the IRS identifies a difference, they send a notice with the following options:File a Tax Return Within
You might have hear derogatory terms to refer to the IRS agents or to the entity in general, like "in my audit, I just threw them a bone to leave me away". However, this is nothing farther from the truth as in the recent years, the funding has been increased and the IRS employees has
Similar to the IRS focus on partnership that we shared in our last week post, the S Corporation is another higher scrutiny entity type for the IRS. Back in June 2024, the IRS Chief Counsel Margie Rollinson announced the creation of new Associate Office that would focus on partnerships, S Corporations, trusts and estates. She
In the 2023 National Taxpayer Advocate report to Congress, this organization lists a number of issues that the IRS should address as priorities for "serious" problems. The report is public and published each year. Additionally, the report provides details in plain language of why each problem has a significant impact on the taxpayers and how
The IRS has been putting more focus on partnerships in recent times. Back in June 2024, the IRS released a statement were the Agency would put more focus on "high-income compliance issues" and "... to combat abusive partnership transactions" which mainly related to basis shifting transactions. Then, the IRS targeted specifically three groups: " Transfer
From the IRS release in June 2024, there will be more reporting requirements to digital and crypto brokers (the ones taking possession or custody of those assets, similar to financial institutions that take custody of securities (stock, bonds, etc.) and release a 1099 Brokerage at year end). As included in the guidance, there is no
As communicated each year, the IRS has updated some of the deductions, tax exemptions, tax exclusions and other tax items based on inflation. In several media, this has been celebrated as the IRS increasing the threshold and in some cases creating clickbait headlines to attract readers, but the reality is that each fall the IRS
