Does Your Business Qualify for the Health Care Tax Credit?

March 10, 2014 

Does Your Business Qualify for the Health Care Tax Credit?

Income tax filing deadlines for most small business are coming up soon, and the Internal Revenue Service is reminding small employers who offer health insurance to their employees to check out the small business health care tax credit and then claim it if they qualify.

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March 10, 2014 

IRS Offers 7 Tax Tips on Health Care Credit

The Obama administration is relying on various federal agencies and organizations to help implement the complex rules under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the comprehensive health care legislation otherwise known as “Obamacare.” Naturally, the IRS is expected to play a major role, including enforcement of the penalties for failing to obtain minimum…

Ken Berry, JD

 Divorce and the Section 121 Personal Residence Exclusion

March 10, 2014 

Divorce and the Section 121 Personal Residence Exclusion

After a divorce, if both spouses stay on title, they can both take advantage of their full personal residence exclusion of $250,000 – as long as one of them continue to use it as a personal residence AND this is specified in the divorce decree (a good reason to get along during the divorce negotiations).

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 IRS Agent and Police Detective Get Prison for Tax Fraud

March 7, 2014 

IRS Agent and Police Detective Get Prison for Tax Fraud

A former Waterbury, Connecticut police detective was sentenced on Thursday to five months in prison and five months of home confinement for trying to mislead a federal Internal Revenue Service investigation of charitable contributions he claimed as deductions on his tax returns in 2007 and 2008, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

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March 7, 2014 

10 Major Tax Changes in President Obama’s Budget

President Obama has just released a new 2015 budget designed to raise more than $1 trillion in revenue over the next ten years by boosting income taxes for upper-income individuals, closing or tightening tax loopholes and scaling back estate tax benefits.

Ken Berry, JD

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March 7, 2014 

New Obamacare Rules Let Existing Health Insurance Plans Continue Until 2016

On March 5, the government released a second set of comprehensive regulations relating to the controversial health care legislation. Previously, regulations had extended the employer mandate for certain mid-sized firms by one year to January 1, 2016, while all responsible firms had benefited from a prior one-year delay. Now, following an earlier reprieve, the grace…

Ken Berry, JD