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Beneficial Ownership information – Required FinCEN report for businesses

From January 1st, 2024, any new company (exemptions are listed below) will have 30 days to file their initial Beneficial Ownership information (BOI) report. For the companies already in business before that date, the BOI has to be filed before January 1st, 2025.  Also, you should be reporting any changes in the BOI within the

By |2023-09-22T14:36:39+00:00September 22nd, 2023|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , , , |

IRS moratorium on ERC claims and how to combat fraud

On September 14th, 2023, the IRS released their IRS Newswire IR-2023-169 for the immediate stop to the new Employee Retention Credit as they were flooded with fraudulent claims, or as the IRS wrote "questionable claims".  This stop would be at least until the end of the year. This moratorium happened less than ten days after

By |2023-09-26T03:23:22+00:00September 17th, 2023|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Federal Trade Commission – deceptive free claims from TurboTax

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission FTC released the initial ruling where TurboTax (Intuit) was deceiving customers with the use of "free" tax preparation that required the payment for those services. Also, this initial ruling could be applied to other "free" promotions that are truly not so. As mentioned in CNBC's article, Intuit already had an

By |2023-09-10T00:14:42+00:00September 10th, 2023|Categories: Business, Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Do not follow tax advice from TikTok influencers – Augusta rule

A few months back, I was giving a small training for small businesses in LAEDA's office in Camden, New Jersey. While going over my presentation, I try to make it interactive and allow participants to ask questions on the topic being discussed or similar ones (at the end, there is always a Q&A portion for

By |2023-09-08T03:13:48+00:00September 8th, 2023|Categories: Business, Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , |

More and more States adding a Pass Through Entity Level tax

Since Connecticut enacted the first Pass Through Entity (PTE) tax in April 2018, more States have enacted or proposed this tax tool. It was around 14 in June 2021, around 30 in January 2023 and at the date of this article is 36 States and one localty (NYC) according to the AICPA listing (link below).

By |2023-08-07T17:26:49+00:00August 10th, 2023|Categories: Business, Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

No more unannounced visits from the IRS

As announced in July 2023 and shared in the IRS Tax Tip 2023-98, the IRS will stop the unannounced visits. Note that there has been numerous cases of fraud with people impersonating IRS agent by mail, by phone and in person requesting outstanding tax liabilities or requesting payments to avoid liens or criminal charges. The

By |2023-08-06T15:13:05+00:00August 6th, 2023|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , |

Less than a month to claim $1.5 billion in 2019 refunds

The IRS reminded taxpayers in mid June 2023 that the deadline to claim their 2019 refunds is approaching. The deadline is July 17, 2023. Note that the IRS has extended their refund window as usually it is three years. However, the three year window for 2019 was extended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. If no

By |2023-06-19T19:26:36+00:00June 19th, 2023|Categories: Individuals|Tags: , , , |

Do not underestimate IRS access to data (exception to requirement for third party summonses)

It is extremely important to keep in mind the full strength of the US government against the citizens, and in this case, the authority of the IRS to access information without submitting summonses for collection purposes. The IRS can access bank information (banks), credit card statements (banks or financial institutions), and probably point of sale

By |2023-05-24T16:56:16+00:00May 26th, 2023|Categories: Business, Individuals|Tags: , , , , |

Is your side hustle a hobby or a business?

According to different surveys, it seems that almost two out of five Americans have a side hustle. The pandemic, expansion of remote work, and the increase of living cost (inflation) has increased the number of people working on the side in addition to their regular job. We had numerous conversation with our clients to determine

By |2023-05-24T16:20:01+00:00May 24th, 2023|Categories: Business, Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , |

IRS payment glitch might generate past due notices for married couples

The glitch in the system is if the "secondary" taxpayer (spouse 2) makes a payment, the system might not link the payment to the "primary" taxpayer (spouse 1) in the married filing jointly returns. There might be certain scenarios for this error to occur: Not electronic and is made by the secondary spouse. Electronic, is

By |2023-01-08T03:31:01+00:00January 8th, 2023|Categories: Individuals|
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