Article Highlights: Changing Filing Status Liability Community Property States Social Security Benefits Capital Loss Limitations Sec 179 Business Expensing Election Rental Loss Limitation Traditional IRA Contributions Roth IRA Contributions Education Credits Series EE or I Bonds Higher Education Interest Standard Deduction Medicare Premiums Allocating Home Mortgage Interest Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) 2021 Tax Rate Tables […]
Article Highlights: Extensions Balance-Due Payments Contributions to Roth or Traditional IRAs Individual Refund Claims for the 2017 Tax Year Missing Information As a reminder to those who have not yet filed their 2020 tax returns, May 17, is the due date to either file a return (and pay the taxes owed) or file for an […]
Article Highlights: The refund statute expires on May 17, 2021 for unfiled 2017 returns. Unfiled returns will lose out on refundable credits. Refunds may be offset by unpaid child support, past due student loans, and back taxes. If you have not yet filed your 2017 tax return and have a refund coming, time to claim […]
Article Highlights: $5,000 First-year Start-up and Organizational Expense Write-off Timely Filing Requirements Qualifying Start-up Expenses Trade or Business Purchase Qualifying Organizational Expenses Expense Write-off Limitations How to Make the Election Other Considerations Unfortunately, as a result of the COVID pandemic many small firms have gone out of business. Fortunately, with the help of vaccines, new […]
Article Highlights: Filing Due Date Balance due payments Contributions to a Roth or traditional IRA Estimated tax payments for the first quarter of 2021 Individual refund claims for tax year 2017 Just a reminder to those who have not yet filed their 2020 federal tax return that thanks to the IRS extending the filing due […]
Article Highlights: Your Federal Tax Refund Status Can Be Checked Online Delay When Claiming Earned Income Tax Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit “Where’s My Refund?” Refunds Are Generally Issued Within 21 Days of E-Filing Paper Filed Return Will Take Longer Information Needed to Check Refund Status Direct Deposit Provides the Quickest Refunds When to […]
Article Highlights: CARES and COVID Tax Relief Acts Unemployment Benefits American Rescue Plan Tax-Exempt Portion of Unemployment Bogus Forms 1099-G Kiddie Tax and Unemployment States’ Taxation of Unemployment With the passage of the CARES Act stimulus package early in 2020, the federal government began supplementing the normal state weekly unemployment benefits by adding $600 […]
Article Highlights: Single Married Filing Jointly Surviving Spouse Married to a Nonresident Alien Head of Household Married Filing Separate Filing status is determined on the last day of the year and most often is based on marital status. The two most prevalent are as follows: Single – Unmarried individuals without dependents. Married Taxpayers Filing […]
Article Highlights: CARES Act Moratorium RMD Resumptions Age Considerations Figuring out the RMD Amount Penalty for Not Taking an RMD No Maximum Limit IRA-to-Charity Transfers As part of the CARES Act, the requirement for older taxpayers to take required minimum distributions (RMDs) from their retirement plans was waived for 2020. This primarily was due to […]
As if this past year with all of its pandemic perils has not been stressful enough, the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Labor has just added to our anxieties by announcing that at least at least $36 billion and possibly as much as $63 billion has been lost to improper unemployment […]