How do you determine if an individual who is hired to do household work is considered a household employee or an independent contractor? Per the IRS guidelines, an individual who works around your home is considered a household employee if you can control the type of...
Decisions regarding Social Security can be deviously complicated. There are thousands of rules, thousands upon thousands of additional codicils to clarify the rules, annual changes, and recent legislation, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA), which drastically...
If you use part of your home regularly and exclusively for business you may be entitled to a deduction for the expenses associated with maintaining that work space whether you are self-employed or an employee. However, for an employee expenses are deductible only if...
Employee parking expenses – how much can your business deduct? The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) resulted in many tax law changes. One of them was the new rule for determining the deductible portion of employee parking expenses. Under the new Section 274(a)(4),...
I inherited my mother’s IRA and I’m required to begin taking required minimum distributions (RMDs) this year. Can I have the withdrawals transferred to a charity and not report them as income? Taxpayers are allowed to donate up to $100,000 ($200,000 for a couple) of...
