As the holidays approach, the Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers to remember that a new law requires the IRS to hold refunds until mid-February in 2017 for people claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) or the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). In addition, new identity theft and refund fraud safeguards put in place by the IRS and the …
Beth Goddard is celebrating 10 years of service with Person CPA Group! She provides accounting and tax services as well as computer technical support and training for individuals, small businesses, and non-profit organizations. She specializes in small business accounting software including Peachtree, QuickBooks, PCLaw, and Champion. She has been an officer in many non-profit organizations, and has worked in industry, …
Several of our staff members recently received emails that claimed to be from QuickBooks and wanted us to follow a sign-in link, presumably so that we could enter our credit card information to ‘subscribe’ to QuickBooks. The email was designed to look very genuine and as you can see by enlarging this image, many of the logos and buttons were …
Two interesting and related articles this morning – the first from The Advocate regarding a poll about raising taxes during the upcoming Special Session: FULL ARTICLE ON BUSINESSREPORT.COM “Roughly seven in 10 Louisianans, or 72%, believe increasing taxes will keep businesses from relocating to The Bayou State, according to the results of a poll of 500 “likely voters” released Tuesday …
This year, the tax deadline falls on April 18, 2016. That’s the deadline to file personal tax returns (such as Form 1040) with the Internal Revenue Service. Normally, the deadline is April 15th. But this year, April 15th is Emancipation Day, a legal holiday in the District of Columbia. Under a special rule, whenever the tax deadline falls on a …
Louisiana recently passed significant changes affecting the application of sales and use tax. These changes go into effect April 1, 2016 and remain in effect for 18 months, ending after June 30, 2018. The temporary taxes include a 1% increase to Louisiana’s 4% sales tax and the lessening of many sales tax exemptions. Louisiana’s state-level sales and use tax is …
There are a number of tax breaks that are often overlooked by entrepreneurs. Among the most common missed credits: Health Insurance Deduction: The deduction is for medical, dental or long-term care insurance premiums that self-employed people often pay for themselves, their spouse and their dependents. The insurance can also cover your child who was under age 27 at the end …
The IRS withdrew proposed regulations released last September that would have allowed charities to file information returns with the IRS and donors instead of providing contemporaneous written acknowledgments of charitable donations. Charities that elected to use the new procedure would have been required to obtain donors’ Social Security or other tax identification numbers (TINs) to complete the information return. The …
Many individuals and small business owners will face the dilemma of choosing whether to file their own tax return or let a professional CPA (like Person Huff!) file for them. There are some good reasons you should consider allowing a professional to prepare your tax return: 1. Tax Law Is Confusing: Tax laws are constantly changing and this year is …
About 85% of small business owners rely on a professional like Person CPA Group to file their taxes. This is because according to a recent National Small Business Association survey, nearly 60% of business owners report that the administrative burdens were the biggest problems posed by federal taxes. There have been a lot of changes to tax law in recent …
