The IRS will received approximately 44 million forms 1099-k (this form is for electronic transactions over $600 during the year and related to applications for payment settlement entities such as Vemno, eBay, Paypal, etc.) in 2024 related to the 2023 tax year from about 14 million received in the prior year. Note that Zelle is
The IRS is reporting the tax gap (amount of money that taxpayers are not settled with the Federal tax authority or the true tax liability versus the paid tax on time) amounts to around $668 billion for 2021. The breakdown is as follows (per IRS blog), comprising three components: Nonfiling, which means tax not paid
After working on an offer in compromise for a married client with over $100k in Federal tax outstanding, we are finally closing an offer in compromise (forms 433-A and 656) that has been discussed with the IRS agent as there are no assets to cover the liabilities and the taxpayers' income is just to cover
The Federal Trade Commission communicated to five tax preparation companies that they could face penalties of up to $50,120 per violation for the misuse of consumers' confidential data. These preparation tax companies were sharing sensitive information such as finance, marital status, number of children and more and monetizing (getting financial benefit) from the taxpayer /
Earlier this month, the IRS has announced the new targets for their examination efforts. This information is in line with the previous discussion to target wealthy individuals over the $400,000 income threshold that was mentioned by President Joe Biden in the 2022 State of the Union speech, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen who instructed the IRS
During this month of September 2023, we have read numerous articles on the IRS efforts to use more AI tools (in addition to hire more IRS agents). Over this summer of 2023, we have seen an increase of IRS examinations and notice of deficiencies where either you agree to the change or if you disagree,
As part of the updates applicable to next year, from January 1st, 2024, you must electronically file (e-file) form 8300 if you e-file the other similar returns, such as 1099, w2s, etc. As mentioned in the IRS website, this form is a method to raise money laundering and illicit transactions "The Form 8300, Report of
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).
