A Tip on passing down your vacation home: Establish a Family Limited Partnership Family Limited Partnerships are powerful estate planning tools that enable the smooth and tax-efficient transfer of business ownership from one generation to the next. If you own…

REFUND STATUTE EXPIRING: DON’T MISS OUT! If you have not filed your 2018 tax return and have a refund coming, time to claim that refund is running out! The IRS estimates that more than 1.35 million taxpayers have not filed…

ACCOUNTING FOR RESTAURANTS   Operating a restaurant is a dream for many, but there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. There are far more restaurants that fail than succeed, and that’s frequently because entrepreneurs spend more…

DO YOU OWE TAXES AND CAN NOT PAY BY THE DUE DATE? The vast majority of Americans get a tax refund from the IRS each year, but what if you are one of those who end ends up owing? The…

Employees Working out of state   Some employees are still working at home and will keep doing so in the future. If you have employees working out of state, this can create additional tax and payroll challenges. State income tax…

On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Small Business Administration released initial details and guidelines for the updated Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Second Draw Loans. Second Draw Loans are loans that will be made to borrowers that already received loans in…

The Criminal Investigation Division’s (CI) annual report has been released by the Internal Revenue Service. The report highlights the agency’s successes and criminal enforcement actions taken in fiscal year 2020, the majority of which occurred during COVID-19. A key achievement…

The Internal Revenue Service(IRS) issued its annual inflation adjustments at the end of October for tax year 2021, revising more than 60 tax provisions, including tax rate schedules, standard deduction amounts, and more. The standard deduction for married couples filing…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic triggering trillions of dollars worth of government stimulus spending, some economists predict that taxes will have to increase to help pay for these stimulus measures and to shore up the government’s coffers. This could mean…

Don’t Procrastinate, File Now to Prevent Tax Bill Overlap With the new tax return deadline of July 15, 2020, many Americans felt relief and possibly pushed tax prep to the bottom of their to-do list. All week we’ve been sharing…