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New Jersey CPA Pleads Guilty to $2.5 Million Tax Fraud

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A New Jersey Certified Public Accountant has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States by promoting fraudulent tax shelters to high-income clients. As a part of his guilty plea, Benkoil admitted his conduct resulted in a tax loss to the IRS of nearly $2.5 million and has agreed to pay full restitution.

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State CPA Societies in Action: New Jersey Society of CPAs (NJCPA)

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New Jersey Society of CPAs Current Members: 13,500+ Founded: 1898 Headquarters: Roseland, NJ www.nysscpa.org Current president: Aiysha (AJ) Johnson, MA is the current CEO and Executive Director. AJ is the Society’s fourth CEO and executive director and the nation’s first Black female head of a state CPA society.

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New Jersey Allows Cannabis Businesses to Deduct Expenses on State Taxes

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill into law that makes it possible for New Jersey cannabis businesses to deduct some expenses on state tax returns by decoupling them from federal rules. By Jelani Gibson, nj.com – (via TNS). The measure was sponsored by state Sens.

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New Jersey Considers Tax Cuts for Seniors and Businesses

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New Jersey’s top two state lawmakers gave an indication Monday that tax cuts — one proposed for seniors, another already planned for large corporations — are likely to be a big focus, and possibly spark a big fight, in the final weeks of state budget negotiations.

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New Jersey Governor Says Tax Cuts are Coming This Year

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Phil Murphy is promising New Jerseyans will see “absolutely no new taxes” as well as “significant tax cuts.”. The Democratic governor also says he wants to renew a property tax relief program installed last year and will let a surcharge on the state’s corporate business tax expire. We’re not gonna relent.

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Baratz & Associates Acquires Fellow New Jersey CPA Firm

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Top 400 accounting firm Baratz & Associates, based in Marlton, NJ, went shopping in nearby Cherry Hill and bought CPA firm Renzi Bernardi Suarez & Co. Raymond Giunta “We are pleased to continue our growth plan and add Phil, Ed, and their team to our New Jersey base,” Managing Partner Raymond Giunta said in a statement.

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New Jersey Business Owner Failed to Pay $10 Million in Payroll Taxes

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A New Jersey business owner faces a federal prison sentence after failing to pay more than $10 million in payroll taxes. Josef Neuman, 37, of Lakewood, pleaded guilty to willful failure to pay over payroll taxes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey said in a statement Wednesday. By Jeff Goldman.