Income Tax
Summertime Tax Tip #1: Mix In A Little Pleasure on Business Trips
Due to recent advances in technology, you can now talk face to face with someone halfway across the country without even budging from your desk. Yet it’s still important at times for business people to “press the flesh” or meet in person with an associate to conduct meetings or consummate a deal. At least, a business traveler may be entitled to generous tax deductions for his or her expenses.
AICPA Opposes Legislation That Would Limit Cash Accounting Methods
In a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has voiced strong opposition to draft legislation that would limit the use of the cash method of accounting for pass-through entities and personal service corporations.
Xero Partners with H&R Block for Small Business Accounting
Online accounting software maker Xero has partnered with H&R Block, Inc. to offer the Xero system as the core small business online accounting platform in H&R Block's Small Business Program suite of services.
Proposed Illinois Soda Tax Losing Its Fizz
Two bills introduced in February call to impose a 1-cent-per-ounce excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. For a 12-ounce can of soda, the tax would add 12 more cents. The price of a twelve-pack would increase by $1.44 and another $2.88 would be added to the cost of a 24-pack.
10 Mid-Year Tax Tips for Individual Taxpayers
Now that this year’s tax filing season for individuals is over, it’s time to concentrate on saving taxes in 2014. All too often, professional tax advisors don’t reach out to their clients until the very end of the year when it might be too late for them to implement meaningful tax planning strategies. Break up the spring and summer doldrums by presenting these ten ideas for their consideration.
Strategic Mid-Year Business Tax Tips
Traditionally, tax planning is targeted to individual taxpayers, but small business owners can also benefit from such tax-saving techniques. Instead of waiting until the very end of the year to pitch ideas to clients, present them with the following ten strategies at midyear.
Doctors in Maine Stung by Income Tax ID Theft
A fraud scheme that appears to target the federal tax returns of doctors and other health care professionals has affected several hundred people in several states, including at least 35 doctors in Maine.
IRS Employees with Tax and Conduct Issues Received Bonuses
According to a new report by the watchdog agency that oversees it, an award program for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees honored some less than honorable staff.