Getting Organized: 2024 Taxes

Getting Organized: 2024 Taxes

Happy 2025! This year we will again be implementing a deadline for all our individual tax return clients to provide us their tax documents in order for us to get our work completed by the original due date of April 15,2025. Please provide your tax documents no later...
Household Employees

Household Employees

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...
SOCIAL SECURITY DECISION-MAKING

SOCIAL SECURITY DECISION-MAKING

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...
Home Office Expenses: What you need to know

Home Office Expenses: What you need to know

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...
Nondeductible Employee Parking Expenses

Nondeductible Employee Parking Expenses

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),...