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Delaware EARNS – DE businesses required to register unless tax-qualified retirement plan in place

From mid October 2024, Delaware businesses with 5 or more employees will have to register by 10/15/24 in the Delaware EARNS (Expanding Access for Retirement and Necessary Saving) website. You could be exempt if you already offer a tax qualified retirement plan to the employees, such as 401k plan or similar. The employee can opt

By |2025-01-07T09:30:19+00:00September 16th, 2024|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , , , |

FinCen estimates around 9 million hours spent requesting access to BOI

The numbers for the FinCen BOI requirement starting 2024 are staggering. FinCen is going to allow access to the data collected from business owners to different financial institutions and State and Local authorities. From different articles, "...FinCEN also estimated that 15,934 entities will seek access to BOI, and that the vast majority of them—15,716—will be

Personal data hacked 3 billion data points. Protect yourself. Get the IRS Identity Protection PIN

More and more often, personal data gets hacked, exposed, etc. Some of you remember the Equifax data breach with 147 million people impacted and a settlement of up to $425 million dollars and there have been many other cases since then. The most recent one is the National Public Data that exposed 3 billion individuals

Ban on non compete agreements on hold by Federal judge

At the end of August 2024, a Federal judge from Texas put a hold to all the ban on non compete agreements. As you might remember, the Federal Trade Commission released a nationwide ban on noncompete agreements on April 23rd, 2024 as reported in our previous blog post from early May 2024 - FTC implementing

By |2025-01-06T17:17:45+00:00September 3rd, 2024|Categories: Business, Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

PA businesses can receive a 75% to 90% tax credit for contributions to educational improvement organizations

If you are a business in PA, you might consider a contribution to an approved Educational Improvement Organizations. If you are a qualified business, you can received a PA tax credit of 75% of your contribution (90% if same contribution for two years). You need to make sure you meet the requirements (i.e. provide proof

Teachers, instructors, principals, and other educators remember the $300 expense deduction

If you are a teacher, instructor or any other educator (even if part time as the rule is at least 900 hours) in a school providing elementary or secondary education, then you can claim the $300 expense deduction at year end in your personal tax return (if both educators filing a married filing jointly return

Summer camp expenses? After school classes or sports? Child and Dependent Care tax credit might help

If you have kids under 13 that have after (or before) school activities (i.e. soccer, basketball, dance, etc.), daycare, or even summer camp, you might be entitled to a tax credit when you file your taxes. You will need to get some information to claim that tax credit like a) name of the institution or

Never ending rules and compliance requirements for businesses

If you are a business owner, then, you are familiar with the increase in regulations and the complexity of running a business. Keeping a business in compliance is more and more difficult due to the fast pace of law changes from different Federal, State and Local government entities and the allocation of more funding for

By |2024-09-02T21:18:19+00:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: Business, Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

NJ protecting customers against unfair credit card surcharges

Back in August 2023, Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation to avoid surcharges for credit card transactions that were not communicated in advance and that were greater than the cost to the seller for credit card payments. As a customer, you should know your rights and we aware of certain unscrupulous actors charging abusive credit card

By |2025-01-10T12:38:55+00:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: Business, Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , |

IRS releases more warnings about Clean Energy scams (IRA) and misleading claims on the Self employment tax credit

In July 2024, the IRS released several warnings on widespread scams and misleading claims on the Self Employment tax credit. The IRS is taking a proactive communication approach and raising awareness of scams, fraud and other misleading information on social media and by different promoters.   Clean Energy Tax Credit – In the IR-2024-182, the

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