Article Highlights: Airbnb, VRBO, and HomeAwayRented for Fewer Than 15 Days during the YearThe 7-Day and 30-Day RulesExceptions to the 30-Day Rule Schedule C Reporting With the advent of online sites such as Airbnb, VRBO, and HomeAway, many individuals have taken to renting out their first or second home through these online rental sites, which [...]
Article Highlights: What They Are AfterEmail Attachments or LinksEmails from the IRSDetecting Phony Email AddressesEmbedded HyperlinksSecurity SoftwareStrong PasswordsIRS Phone CallsEducate the Elderly Too Good to Be True Well, here it is: 2019. The holiday season is over, and the season for preparing tax returns is about to begin. But unfortunately, it is also the season [...]
Article Highlights: Information ReportingIRS MatchingList of Documents To ensure individuals properly report all of their income, the IRS has an ever-expanding series of information-reporting forms used to advise you and the IRS of your wages, retirement plan income, Social Security benefits, health insurance premium subsidies, stock sales, investment income, etc., for each tax year. The [...]
Article Highlights: $600 ThresholdExceptionsForm W-9Impact of Tax Reform1099-MISC Filing If you use independent contractors to perform services for your business or your rental that is a trade or business, for each individual whom you pay $600 or more for the year, you are required to issue the service provider and the IRS a Form 1099-MISC [...]
You know the old line about the inevitability of death and taxes? It’s still true. What isn’t inevitable, however, is the need to pay penalties to the IRS. It happens, but it doesn’t have to, and the main reason that it does is because taxpayers don’t educate themselves about the rules. When you get hit [...]
If you purchase several items and services away from the office, QuickBooks Online can help you record them while you’re out and about. QuickBooks Online’s mobile app, available at the Apple App Store and Google Play, can do many of the same tasks that it performs on your office desktop. You can, for example: Check [...]
Article Highlights: Annual MileageOptional (Standard) Mileage Method Actual-Expense MethodVehicle DepreciationLuxury-Vehicle LimitsSUVsInterest ExpensesBusiness-Vehicle Sales or Trade-insEmployeesPlug-in Electric Vehicle Credits TheTax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2018 and other tax reforms have brought about significant changes in the way that vehicle use is deducted for business purposes. Before getting into these changes, it is appropriate to first [...]
Article Highlights: Time to gather your information for your tax appointmentNew for 2018Choosing your alternativesTips for pulling your information together Tax time is just around the corner, and if you are like most taxpayers, you are finding yourself with the ominous chore of pulling together the records for your tax appointment. The difficultly of this [...]
Article Highlights: Pre-2019 AlimonyPost-2018 AlimonyDefinition of AlimonyAlimony and IRA ContributionsState Treatment of Alimony Welcome to 2019 and a delayed provision of the tax reform, also known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). For divorce agreements entered into after December 31, 2018, or pre-existing agreements that are modified after that date to expressly provide [...]
