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
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
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).
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
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
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
As of 12/31/22, the City of Philadelphia did not renew the temporary sidewalk cafe license that allowed the restaurants during the pandemic to expand their activity outside in the street or parking spaces. We have been getting consultations on what it is potential the next step if I still want to serve my customers outside.
The IRS announced on December 23rd, 2022 a delayed implementation of the 1099-k third party payments. This reporting requirement has been extremely controversial due to the low threshold to report, considering that many taxpayers use applications like Venmo, Zelle and others to transfer funds for personal activities. These transfers in aggregate over the year would
In the last months, we have reported some issues with popular tax software that was charging fees or hide the free version from users. In a recent investigation by The Markup, there was evidence that code in some of popular tax preparation software including TaxAct, TaxSlayer and H&R Block sent financial and tax information to
If you are a business in Philadelphia and have a loss, you can use that loss against the future profit in the next twenty year and offset that income. This change was approved by the City of Philadelphia in 2018, but required Pennsylvania approval which was granted recently. The New Jersey Small Business Development Center
