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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: , , , , , , , |

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: , , , , , , , , , , , |

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: , , , , , , |

Recovery Startup Business (ERC) up to $100,000 if business started after Feb 2020

The Recovery Startup Business shares some similarities with the Employee Retention Credit. Note that there have been numerous updates and clarifications on these refundable tax credits, but if your business meets the requirements, you can obtain up to $100k. Based on the expansion of the definition of Recovery Startup Business (Notice 2021 -49 page 7)

By |2022-06-11T17:11:50+00:00June 11th, 2022|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Employee Retention credit still available – Up to $26k per employee

The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) is a fully refundable credit that targets businesses with employees (w2s) in 2020 and 2021. These businesses must have been impacted by the pandemic, mainly either 1) reduction of sales (50% reduction in 2020 quarter versus 2019 quarter or 20% reduction in 2021 quarter versus 2019 quarter) or 2) partial

By |2022-06-03T15:47:29+00:00June 1st, 2022|Categories: Business, Financial Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

IRS tips on home office deductions

In the Tax Tip 2022-10, the IRS listed some of the rules and tips to deduct your home office. Note that to claim the home office deduction, taxpayers generally must exclusively and regularly use part of their home or a separate structure on their property as their primary place of business. In some cases, if

By |2022-03-05T03:33:27+00:00February 2nd, 2022|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Closing your business? Communicate with tax authorities

If you are closing your business, you need to communicate to the tax authorities (Federal, State and local) which requires filing a final tax return, pay any liabilities to employees or vendors, pay any taxes outstanding, etc. Additionally, you need to keep the business records for a few years based on the period of limitations

By |2021-11-07T21:51:11+00:00November 7th, 2021|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Home office deduction – Is your home the principal place of business?

In the IRS Tax Tip 2021-136, the IRS reminds small business owners how to qualify for the home office deduction. Employees are not eligible to claim the home office deduction. The home office deduction, reported on Form 8829, is available to both homeowners and renters. There are certain expenses taxpayers can deduct. They include mortgage

By |2021-09-23T21:48:38+00:00September 23rd, 2021|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , |

Businesses, charities, and others must update responsible party within 60 days of any change

In the IRS IR-2021-161, the IRS reminded that businesses, charities, and others with Employer Identification Numbers must update responsible party information within 60 days of any change. IRS regulations require EIN holders to update responsible party information within 60 days of any change by filing Form 8822-B, Change of Address or Responsible Party - Business.

By |2021-08-19T15:53:50+00:00August 1st, 2021|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Hobby activities versus business – Profit purpose?

The IRS as part of their Tax Tip 2021-94 provided more clarification on the hobby activity and how to report hobbies (Schedule 1, Form 1040, line 8). Note that the IRS might disregard expenses on a business if they consider that it is a hobby or just for the purpose of offset other income and

By |2021-07-13T18:20:42+00:00July 15th, 2021|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , |
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