If you are a US citizen or resident alien (i.e. green card holder), then, you are suppose to file taxes with the United States authorities, especially at the Federal level (IRS) even if you do not live in the United States. The United States (and Eritrea, only two countries in the World) taxes its citizens
On April 4th, 2024, the IRS shared that the Federal Communications Commission issued a cease and desist letter to Veriwave Telco as the company was making millions of calls (prerecorded message) regarding a National Tax Relief Program. "... The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau today issued a cease-and-desist letter against Veriwave Telco. The letter ordered Veriwave Telco
Yesterday, the IRS released IR-2024-46 indicating that will put more focus on the audits of corporate jets. There is plenty of post over social media from the full deduction of corporate jets even on the last day of the year and other claims, which might not be applicable to every case. The IRS sends a
At the present time, the IRS is still finalizing some forms for the e-file acceptance. As a result, there could be rejections or errors on the e-file in certain forms or schedules are e-filed as part of the tax return. The U.S. Government Accountability Office GAO "... provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. Often called
On January 23rd, the IRS released communication IR-2024-19 which provide more details on their Simple Notice Initiative. The IRS releases around 170 million notices / letters each year to taxpayers and the IRS wants to make it easier for the taxpayer to understand them, and hopefully reduce the number of follow up calls and communications
On January 10th, 2024, the IRS communicated that will remove/waive failure to pay penalties on unpaid taxes less than $100k for tax years 2020 or 2021. The rational for this removal of penalties is because the IRS suspended sending automated notices during the pandemic so certain taxpayers were not aware of any amounts due for
Yesterday, the IRS made official the delay on the 1099-k implementation for the $600 threshold for 2023. In 2023, the 1099-k will be released if the taxpayer receives over $20,000 and has more than 200 transactions in 2023. Based on the IRS website, the current plan for 2024 is the threshold to be $5,000 and
Over the summer and until now, we have observed a higher number of Notices of Deficiencies from the IRS in forums, colleagues discussions and through clients' consultations. This trend seems in line with other tax authorities at the State and Local levels (i.e. Philadelphia) were they put on hold the automatic notices and some collection
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
