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When to File a Gift Tax Return
If you give someone money or property during your lifetime, you may be subject to federal gift tax. The federal gift tax exists for one reason: to prevent taxpayers from avoiding the federal estate tax by giving away their money before they die. When it comes into...
Quickbooks Tip: Use Customer Notes to Help Your Business Thrive
If your business is actively invoicing and billing clients, the “Note” function in Quickbooks online may be something you want to use. This function could become a powerful selling tool for your business. You can keep notes on all client contacts and even the...
Stress Relief: The Capaldi Reynolds & Pelosi soccer team!
This tax season the members of the Capaldi, Reynolds & Pelosi family got together to solve a problem. How could a group of accountants, fresh off a long and grueling three months, come together to blow off some steam and have a good time? The solution is probably...
Is Your Nonprofit Governance Up to Date?
Like everything else in the world, concepts about governance in nonprofit organizations are evolving. In the US corporate world, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) represented an attempt to legislate some basic principles designed to protect the interests of stakeholders by...
Divorce and Retirement Plans
Retirement plans are often one of the most valuable assets a couple acquires during a marriage. If a couple divorces and there is an agreement or judgment that requires all or a portion of the employee spouse’s retirement plan to be shared with the spouse or former...
The Very Basics of Blockchain
Blockchain is the technology that makes Bitcoin possible and it has been around the edge of my consciousness since Bitcoin came on the scene about ten years ago, but I never really wanted to know more about what it is and how it works until the most recent lettuce...
Social Security and Taxes
After contributing through payroll and self-employment taxes for decades of work, many Social Security beneficiaries are astonished when they learn that their benefits may be subject to federal and sometimes state income taxes. When benefits were first paid in 1940,...
The Bottom (Tax) Line for 2018
There are reports all over the news that some taxpayers are disappointed with the size of their federal tax refunds. Since we have a pay as you go tax system, each year we estimate the taxes we are going to owe on our income and either pay estimated taxes or have...
New Jersey $15 Minimum Wage on the Horizon – How Will it Impact You and Your Business?
Late last month, Governor Phil Murphy passed legislation calling for the gradual increase of the state’s minimum wage from $8.85 per hour as of January 1, 2019, to $15.00 per hour by January 1, 2024. The first jump in hourly minimums is set to take effect this July,...