The New Form 1099-NEC Summarized

By |2021-01-02T10:27:22-05:00December 2nd, 2020|Employees & Independent Contractors, Employers, Payroll|

  1099-NEC: Use For Non Employee Compensation for Independent Contractors of $600 or more Someone who is not an employee, who provided services Can go to an individual, parternship, estate, or corporation Should inlcude payments for services AND payments for parts or materials used to perform the services Examples: Attorneys, [...]

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Tax Advice for Locums Tenens

By |2022-07-14T12:55:30-04:00October 7th, 2020|401(k) & 403(b), Business Start-Ups and Closures, Corporate Income Tax, Employees & Independent Contractors, Employers, Individual Income Tax, Payroll, Retirement, Traditional IRA|

As a locum tenens provider, you’re considered an independent contractor and you need to be prepared to pay your own taxes. Your hiring firm may not be required to withhold any federal or state taxes from your compensation. Additionally, you’ll most likely need to remit estimated taxes each quarter to [...]

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Are you using the correct terminology when discussing IRA’s?

By |2020-10-01T09:18:47-04:00October 1st, 2020|Individual Income Tax, Retirement, Traditional IRA|

Source: IRS.gov - Issue Number: Tax Tip 2020-129 Terms to help taxpayers better understand Individual Retirement Arrangements Many taxpayers may have heard of Individual Retirement Arrangements, or IRAs, but some don’t know how IRAs help them save for retirement. People can set up an IRA with a bank or other [...]

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A tax checklist for newly married couples

By |2020-09-14T16:29:10-04:00September 16th, 2020|Individual Income Tax|

IRS.gov - Issue Number: Tax Tip 2020-118 Marriage changes a lot of things and taxes are on that list. Newlyweds should know how saying “I do” can affect their tax situation. Here’s a checklist of items for newly married couples to review: Name and address changes - Name. When a [...]

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Unemployment compensation is taxable; have tax withheld now and avoid a tax-time surprise

By |2020-08-25T14:40:18-04:00August 25th, 2020|Coronavirus, Employees, Employees & Independent Contractors, Individual Income Tax, Penalties and Interest, Tax Payments|

IRS.gov IR-2020-185, August 18, 2020 WASHINGTON — With millions of Americans now receiving taxable unemployment compensation, many of them for the first time, the Internal Revenue Service today reminded people receiving unemployment compensation that they can have tax withheld from their benefits now to help avoid owing taxes on this income [...]

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Did You Receive $500 per Child Stimulus Payment?

By |2020-08-14T14:27:29-04:00August 14th, 2020|Coronavirus, Individual Income Tax, Parents and Children|

Issue Number:    IR-2020-180                                                                          IRS.gov IRS takes new steps to ensure people with children receive $500 [...]

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Working from Home? Here’s what you should know about the home office deduction

By |2020-08-06T15:26:30-04:00August 6th, 2020|Business Start-Ups and Closures, Coronavirus, Corporate Income Tax, Employees & Independent Contractors, Home Owners|

Source: Tax Tip 2020-98: Here’s what taxpayers need to know about the home office deduction www.irs.gov Here’s what taxpayers need to know about the home office deduction The home office deduction allows qualifying taxpayers to deduct certain home expenses on their tax return. With more people working from home [...]

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Tax Year 2019 Payment Options

By |2020-07-09T15:56:47-04:00July 9th, 2020|Employees, Employees & Independent Contractors, Individual Income Tax, State Taxes, Tax Payments|

Source: Issue Number:    FS-2020-10   IRS payment options Taxpayers have a variety of options to consider when paying federal taxes. This year, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the filing deadline and tax payment due date was postponed from April 15 to July 15, 2020. A list of forms due July [...]

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New PPP Forgiveness App Released Today

By |2020-06-17T15:35:01-04:00June 17th, 2020|Coronavirus, Employees & Independent Contractors, Employers, News Articles|

The PPP Forgiveness Application With the latest changes to the program rules was released today. There is an EZ version and a standard version. Both are half of the length of the original application. Here is an article outlining some of the details. Explanations regarding forgiveness dates and some gray [...]

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