The Cannabis industry had some rumors in the last few months on a potential move from Schedule I substance which are considered hard drugs with no medical use and that are especially harmful for users due to abuse to a more relaxed Schedule III which are medical drugs with lower dependence. The current Biden administration
The numbers for the FinCen BOI requirement starting 2024 are staggering. FinCen is going to allow access to the data collected from business owners to different financial institutions and State and Local authorities. From different articles, "...FinCEN also estimated that 15,934 entities will seek access to BOI, and that the vast majority of them—15,716—will be
If you are a business owner, then, you are familiar with the increase in regulations and the complexity of running a business. Keeping a business in compliance is more and more difficult due to the fast pace of law changes from different Federal, State and Local government entities and the allocation of more funding for
As you might be aware, taxpayers are leaving States with double digit State income taxes like California, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia for more tax friendly States like Texas and Florida in 2023 as described in the Tax Foundation article. Based on Wirepoints data, if we go back to 2020
Last week, some of our clients and other tax professionals have been sharing with us some of their notices received from different tax authorities. As we always recommend, please, review it carefully as it might be sent by error as more and more tax departments are relying on a) IT criteria, b) outstanding balance without
If you are a visual person, probably, you are aware of Visual Capitalist, a website that contains great graphics in almost any topic (i.e. Economy, Wealth, Automotive, Healthcare, etc.). This website is always posting interesting graphs, tables and other visual elements. Recently, they posted two tax related ones that are worth mentioning: 1) What Frustrates
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
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).
The New York PTE tax follows several other states in availing itself of the IRS’ guidance in Notice 2020-75, which permits the use of PTE tax regimes like New Jersey and Connecticut previously. With the new PTE tax in place, eligible entities that elect to be taxed at the entity level will now be able
In this period of uncertainty and chaos, we strongly believe that informed individuals take better decisions. These are some updates available as of 3/21/2020. For any additional questions, please, reach out to our office. Federal IRS extends the filing tax deadline and payment to July 15, 2020 (90 days) https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus Payment Plan IRS - There
