Dec 5, 2019 | Business, Business Financial Consulting, Business Health, Tax
Under current law, most employees making $23,660 or less per year automatically qualify for overtime after 40 hours worked per week. The new rule recently issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) would raise that threshold to $47,476, effective December 1, 2016....
Dec 5, 2019 | Business, Personal Finance, Tax
Canceled Debt – Is It Taxable or Not? If you borrow money and are legally obligated to repay a fixed or determinable amount at a future date, you have a debt. You may be personally liable for a debt or may own a property that is subject to a debt. If your debt is...
Dec 5, 2019 | Personal Finance, Tax, Uncategorized
By: Terri L. Marakos, CPA With the expansion of the global economy, the involvement of taxpayers in foreign activities has become commonplace. Even not-so-sophisticated investors often hold the securities of companies with foreign activities and that pay foreign...
Dec 5, 2019 | Affordable Care Act, Personal Finance, Tax
by Clayton Himstedt, CPA Now that the holidays are behind us, we can start focusing on everyone’s favorite time of year, tax time. Throughout the month of January, your 2015 tax documents will begin arriving in your mailbox. The best time to provide your tax...
Dec 5, 2019 | Personal Finance, Tax
So dubbed by the Tax Policy Center, the Alternative Minimum Tax, a tax intended to insure that wealthy taxpayers pay their fair share of federal taxes, is showing up on more middle class tax returns. Will you be one of those taxpayers? The Alternative Minimum...
Dec 5, 2019 | Affordable Care Act, News, Personal Finance, Tax, Uncategorized
Change in Tax Rates Beginning in 2013, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 imposes new higher 39.6% and 20% tax rates on ordinary income and long-term capital gains, respectively. The new top ordinary income tax rate of 39.6% is imposed on taxable income over...
