Taxes

The 2022 report groups a total of five recommendations into two sections: recommendations to Congress and recommendations to the IRS.

Although Wayfair was strictly a sales tax case, states have also begun to assert economic nexus for income tax purposes. Unlike sales tax, currently only a handful of states...

The CP14, which is required by law to be issued within 60 days after the IRS assesses a tax liability, is the most common IRS notice sent to taxpayers, according to the Taxpayer Advocate Service, and requests payment within 21 days. The reason why taxpayers have a balance due can be related to a number of issues, such as failing to report some income or failing to pay a balance in full, Tiffany Gonzalez, CPA, CEO of Miami-based accounting firm Accounting to Scale, stated last week on LinkedIn.

It used to be that receiving a Form 1099-K was relatively rare. The form, technically known as Form 1099-K Payment Card and Third-Party Network Transactions was used to report payments received from various third-party resources. Prior to 2022, the monetary threshold to receive a 1099-K was $20,000, with 200 sales-related transactions required. Both requirements had to be fulfilled in order to receive a 1099-K.