Article Highlights: • Employer shared responsibility provisions • Who must be offered affordable minimum essential health coverage? • Full-time employees • Equivalent full-time employees • Transitional relief Under the Affordable Care Act, certain employers – referred to as applicable large employers (ALEs) – are subject to the employer shared responsibility provisions, which require ALEs to [...]
Article Highlights • IRA-to-Charity Transfer Provision Made Permanent • Required Minimum Distribution • How the Provision Plays Out on a Tax Return • Tax Benefits of the Provision Individuals age 70.5 or over—who must withdraw annual required minimum distributions (RMDs) from their IRAs—will be pleased to learn that the temporary provision allowing taxpayers to transfer [...]
The recently enacted "Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015" (i.e., the 2015 PATH Act) contains a provision making permanent the popular research credit, which encourages businesses to invest more in research and development than they otherwise would, through a tax credit for spending on qualified research. The credit (1) is for 20% of [...]
The recently enacted "Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015" (i.e., the PATH Act) extended and expanded an important tax provision for business: bonus depreciation. I'm writing to give you an overview of the bonus depreciation provisions in the new law. Please call our office for details of how the new changes may affect [...]
Congress has once again extended the "extenders," a varied assortment of more than 50 individual and business tax deductions, tax credits, and other tax-saving laws which have been on the books for years but which technically are temporary because they have a specific end date. This package of tax breaks has repeatedly been temporarily extended [...]
Congress has once again extended the "extenders," a varied assortment of more than 50 individual and business tax deductions, tax credits, and other tax-saving laws which have been on the books for years but which technically are temporary because they have a specific end date. This package of tax breaks has repeatedly been temporarily extended [...]
February 2016 Individual Due Dates February 1 - Tax Appointment If you don’t already have an appointment scheduled with this office, you should call to make an appointment that is convenient for you. February 1 - File 2015 Return to Avoid Penalty for Not Making 4th Quarter Estimated Payment If you file your prior year’s [...]
Household Help: Employee or Contractor? Article Highlights: • Household Employee Definition • Employee Control Factors • Self-employed or Employee • Withholding Requirements • Reporting Requirements Frequently taxpayers will hire an individual or firm to provide services at the taxpayer's home. Because the IRS requires employers to withhold taxes for employees and issue them W-2s at [...]
As it does every year, the Internal Revenue Service recently announced the inflation- adjusted 2016 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2016, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (or a van, pickup [...]
If you operate a business and engage the services of an individual (independent contractor) other than one who meets the definition of an employee and you pay him or her $600 or more for the calendar year, you are required to issue him or her a Form 1099 at the end of the year to [...]
