Taxes January 26, 2026
Welcome to Tax Season 2026
The IRS today opened the 2026 tax filing season and began accepting and processing federal individual income tax returns for tax year 2025.
February 20, 2018
February 2018 Payroll Channel
Top Payroll Blogs & Social Media Payroll Rates for 2018. James Paille, via the Thomson Reuters blog. http://tmsnrt.rs/2EN8nsF Creating an Employer Brand that’s a Talent Magnet. Connect@ADP blog.http://bit.ly/2nqNknG What Your Accounting Resume Should Look Like This Year. Robert Half blog.http://bit.ly/2BfKQB7 Are Your Employees Passionate About Their Jobs. HR Payroll Systems blog.http://bit.ly/2smPRFg 10 Common Payroll Mistakes...…
February 20, 2018
February 2018 Tax Channel
Top Tax Blogs & Social Media IRS Warns about Private Debt Collectors. Rick Telberg, via CPATrendlines.http://bit.ly/2Ew67Z4 Sales Tax Holidays in 2018. Gail Cole, via Avalara blog.http://bit.ly/2BLvZ2c IRS Alerts Taxpayers about Corrected Forms 1095-A. From the Wolters Kluwer blog.http://bit.ly/2FYg5Ql State Corporate Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2018. Morgan Scarboro, via the Tax Foundation.http://bit.ly/2GY6D0z Higher Sec....…
February 19, 2018
From Performance Management to Continuous Feedback
Enhancing employee engagement is a goal for many firms today. An employee who remains engaged throughout the year is better motivated, more productive and more dedicated to the firm than employees who are disengaged. One crucial way to improve employee...
February 19, 2018
2018 Reviews of Cash Management Systems for Small Business
It’s no secret that inadequate cash management is a major contributing factor to why businesses fail. Small businesses in particular need to implement proper cash management procedures into their everyday business, including timely reconciliation of ...
February 19, 2018
Advice for Accountants and Bookkeepers Working with Freelancer Clients
Freelancers have unique circumstances associated with filing their income taxes. They work on many jobs in a year which results in receiving many 1099-Misc forms. If they have jobs that pay less than $600 each, then they may not receive 1099s for those...
February 19, 2018
CES 2018: Accounting Hardware Highlights
Each January, over 170,000 technology and electronics enthusiasts descend upon Las Vegas to attend the world’s largest Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to see the latest consumer technologies. While a significant amount of the media attention ...
February 15, 2018
IRS Issues New Payroll Tax Withholding Tables for 2018
The Internal Revenue Service has released Notice 1036, which updates the income-tax withholding tables for 2018 reflecting changes made by the tax reform legislation enacted last month. This is the first in a series of steps that IRS will take to help ...
February 15, 2018
6 Tips for Recruiting Today’s Top Accounting Students
Hiring recent graduates has long been a vital part of accounting firms’ recruitment strategies. But it’s also one that’s consistently challenging. Talented college students frequently find they have their pick of employers when they enter the job market.
February 14, 2018
IRC Sec 751 in a Nutshell
With a Section 751 Transfer, we are usually talking about a commercial building or an appreciable asset. For this article, we are going to stick with a commercial building, because it is easier to explain. Let’s say you have a partner that has a ...
February 14, 2018
The Important Change to IRC §1031 Exchanges With the New Tax Law
A Section 1031 Exchange is a like-kind exchange. Before the new tax law, if you had anything classified as property, you could exchange that property for property that was like-kind, and avoid the capital gains tax on the transactions.
February 13, 2018
The Gig Economy and Accountants
Bankers driving Lyft. Software engineers launching businesses on Amazon. Marketing professionals picking up consulting projects. Welcome to the gig economy. Where employees have a side hustle, or three, and others have left the paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle of Corporate America for the project-to-project grind. According to Investopedia, the gig economy is defined as an economy where temporary,...…
February 13, 2018
Why and How: A Strategy for Innovation
Over the last two to three years we have watched pundits and consultants promote ideas around emerging technologies. Some of the claims are ludicrous, loony, and ill-informed. Others are trying to position, parlay and learn. You’ve seen this column ...