December 20, 2015
For tax year 2015 - which Americans must file by April 18, 2016 - the has announced annual inflation adjustments for more than 40 tax provisions, including the tax rate schedules, and other tax changes. The tax items for tax year 2015 ...
December 17, 2015
The new “tax extenders” legislation just unveiled by Congress does more than merely extend dozens of expires tax breaks. It also makes several important provisions permanent, with certain modifications, while delaying onerous rules under the Affordable...
December 17, 2015
Now is the time to start thinking about recent tax changes and how they affect your business. Even for the most organized among us, keeping the mountains of tax details straight is a tough and trying task, taking the focus off of the daily ...
December 17, 2015
The Federal Tax Guide offers coverage of a wide range of timely topics most important to tax practitioners as they prepare 2015 returns and plan for the year ahead with new content on health care reform, including individual and employer mandates ...
December 15, 2015
New proposed regulations that would permit nonprofit organizations to request Social Security numbers for donations of $250 or more could be stopped dead in their tracks. A new bill introduced in Congress by Senator Pat Roberts (Rep.-KA) would stop ...
December 15, 2015
There is one tax saving approach we can always assist our clients with, and that is educating them about tax penalties. What follows is a list of the most punitive tax penalties along with simple tips on making sure your clients are never ...
December 13, 2015
CI investigates potential criminal violations of the Internal Revenue Code and related financial crimes in a manner to foster confidence in the tax system and compliance with the law. The 50-page report summarizes a wide variety of IRS CI activity ...
December 11, 2015
Starting this filing season, reporting is mandatory for any company with at least 50 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees.
December 11, 2015
This summer, the IRS increased penalties for failure to file correct information returns and failure to provide correct payee statements for information returns filed after December 31, 2015, with maximum penalties on small businesses increasing from ...
December 11, 2015
For selected clients, ADP will include the Verification Code in a designated box of the 2015 Forms W-2 issued to its clients’ employees. ADP will generate the alphanumeric code based on select data elements on each Form W-2, and an algorithm provided ...
December 9, 2015
Are your federal income taxes overdue? You could lose your passport if you try to leave the country – even if you’re just taking a vacation or business trip abroad.
December 9, 2015
The new bill was proposed after a prior regulatory program was successfully challenged in court by unlicensed tax return preparers (Loving, et. al. v. IRS, CA- D.C., No. 13-5061, 2/11/14). Subsequently, the IRS instituted a voluntary program.