Sep 15, 2021 | Personal Finance, Tax
The child and dependent care tax credit is a credit allowed for expenses that a taxpayer incurs for the care of a child under age 13 or a dependent relative that enable the taxpayer to work or look for work. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) enacted March 11, 2021...
Sep 15, 2021 | Cryptocurrency, Personal Finance, Tax
A scenario for you: You’re a young millennial who spends his or her mornings perusing your most trusted source of internet news (I, of course, am referring to Reddit) in November of 2020. A hot tip involving a potential short-squeeze opportunity to profit off of an...
Sep 15, 2021 | Business Health, Personal Finance, Tax
It seems that calls to protect my car with an extended warranty are now outnumbering the threatening calls I once got, supposedly from the IRS. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that scammers have given up pretending to be collection agents for the IRS. For our...
Sep 15, 2021 | Personal Finance, Tax
For years the IRS has issued Identity Protection PINS to proven victims of tax-related identity theft. The number is mailed to the taxpayer every year and is used to file all federal returns, both electronic and paper. This year the IRS will allow eligible taxpayers...
Sep 15, 2021 | Business Financial Consulting, Tax
As the saying goes in the investment community, you “Don’t Buck the Fed”, but rather you follow their lead and take advantage of what they give you. Well, what more important investment do employers have than their own companies? Therefore, my...
Jun 3, 2021 | Charitable Giving, News, Personal Finance, Retirement, Tax
Background The Pension Protection Act of 2006 first allowed taxpayers age 701/2 or older to make tax-free charitable donations directly from their IRAs. Technically, these taxpayers were allowed to exclude from gross income otherwise taxable distributions from their...