Read This First Before Tapping Your Retirement Savings

Article Highlights: Tapping Your Retirement Savings Traditional IRAs and Qualified Retirement Plans Simple IRAs Early-Withdrawal Penalties Reduction in Retirement Savings Exceptions from the Early-Withdrawal Penalty Roth…

Working Abroad Has Huge U.S. Tax Benefits

Article Highlights: Tax-Free Income from Working Abroad Foreign Earned Income and Housing Exclusions Foreign Self-Employment Income Claiming or Revoking the Exclusion U.S. citizens and resident aliens are taxed on their worldwide…

Getting Started with Reports in QuickBooks Online

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You should be running reports in QuickBooks Online on a weekly—if not daily—basis. Here’s what you need to know.  You can do a lot of your accounting work in QuickBooks Online by generating reports. You can maintain your customer and…

April 2022 Due Dates

April 2022 Individual Due Dates April 11 - Report Tips to Employer If you are an employee who works for tips and received more than $20 in tips during March, you are required to report them to your employer on IRS Form 4070 no later than…

Can’t Pay Your Taxes? Here Are Some Payment Options 

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Article Highlights: If You Can’t Pay Family Loans Home Equity Loans and HELOCs Credit Card Short-term Payment Plan  IRS Installment Agreement Retirement Funds Filing Extensions Enforced Collections  Offer-in-Compromise  Although…

You May Need to File Estimated Tax Payments

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Article Highlights: Employees Self-Employed Individuals Quarterly Payments Underpayment Penalty Safe Harbor Payments Estimated tax payments are not just for the self-employed. They are for anyone whose withholding and tax…

The Tax-Filing Deadline Is Drawing Near

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Article Highlights: Extensions  Balance-Due Payments Contributions to Roth or Traditional IRAs Individual Refund Claims for the 2018 Tax Year Missing Information As a reminder to those who have not yet filed their 2021…

Toss Your Paystub Every Week? Maybe It’s Time To Take a Closer Look

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What you do with your paystub often depends on how you get paid. If you have direct deposit there’s a good chance that you just rip the entire thing up without a glance, confident in the fact that the money is in your bank account and all…
Charitable Tax Deduction Peculiarities

Charitable Tax Deduction Peculiarities

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Charitable Tax Deduction Peculiarities Charitable contributions are deducted as part of a taxpayer’s itemized deductions on IRS Schedule A, except for the special 2020 and 2021 provisions that allow up to $300 ($600 for married taxpayers…
Hiring An Independent Contractor? How QuickBooks Online Can Help

Hiring An Independent Contractor? How QuickBooks Online Can Help

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  Hiring An Independent Contractor? How QuickBooks Online Can Help  Are you taking on a worker who’s not an employee? QuickBooks Online includes tools for tracking and paying independent contractors.  The COVID-19 pandemic…