The IRS has released the updated per diem rates for taxpayers who travel for business, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. These rates apply to travel away from home for ordinary and necessary business purposes and are used to simplify expense reimbursements for lodging, meals, and incidental expenses. High-cost localities: Daily total allowance
As part of the government shutdown, now it is the time for the IRS to furlough more than half of its employees. The reason for this five business days delay is due to the IRS contingency plan to keep running for a few business days before broader furloughs kicked in, called "lapse appropriations contingency plan".
If you are a business owner, it might be positive to employ your kids or other family members in the business. Especially, if you are already supporting these individuals at your higher tax rate, it might be quite beneficial to have an expense for the business and save on the taxes paid a lower rate
We have numerous blog posts on the difference between a) employees and b) independent contractors based on the IRS, Department of Labor (DoL) and State authorities at the time the post was released. However, in January 2024, the DoL released new rules (or go back to the previous rules pre-Trump) on "... how to analyze
As the Social Security Board of Trustees (Federal government) estimates that from 2035, the payments of scheduled benefits might be reduced to around 75% (unless there is a reform to increase the fund assets), more and more States are requiring small businesses to join State programs offering retirement options to their employees, if not already
In the IR-2024-167, the IRS shares the Frequently Asked Questions and general guidance on how the employee's w2 will not reflect any additional compensation for educational assistance programs with benefits of up to $5,250 if there is a section 127 program at your employer. This is an excellent way to have the employer pay for
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
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
In August 2021, there have been several updates to the Employee Retention Credit guidance plus the National Conference of CPA Practitioners was extremely critical with some of this recent guidance. As you can read on this post, there are still different areas of this tax credit that are litigious and unclear for tax professionals. We
In Tax Tip 2021-108, the IRS reminded students and first time employees some important considerations. New employees: Employees (w2) – including those who are students – normally have taxes withheld from their paychecks by their employer. When anyone gets a new job, they need to fill out a Form W-4, Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate, and
