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Some Top Midtier Audit Firms Felt the Wrath of the PCAOB This Week

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million earlier this week for breaking various Public Company Accounting Oversight Board auditing rules. Grant Thornton’s India arm and an Australian audit firm also received penalties from the PCAOB. 21 for “pervasive” quality control violations found in its audits of special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in 2020 and 2021.

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IRS Begins Auditing the Employee Retention Credit

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Multiple businesses notified us this week that their claims for the employee retention credit (ERC) are being audited by the IRS. It is not known whether they were randomly selected for audit or whether they were targeted for some reason. We have written previously about the topics the IRS is likely to inquire about on audit.

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PCAOB Has Handed Out a Slew of Punishments to Audit Firms Recently

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Shortly after criticizing audit firms for the number of errors they made on public company audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors last year, the audit watchdog doled out sanctions to 12 accounting firms from July 28 to Aug. 11 for breaking various auditing rules. Snodgrass, Mancera S.C.,

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Landscape of Employee Retention Credit Tax Issues

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Has the IRS Ramped up the Number of ERC Audits? The IRS has significantly increased the number civil and criminal audits, and it has centralized the audit process. We are seeing and hearing from others that taxpayers are receiving checks, but only after the claims are reviewed and approved, or cleared on audit.

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Tax Deductions Guide 2021

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Claiming deductions can save your company thousands of dollars in income taxes. However, if you’re claiming ineligible business expenses , you risk facing an audit. If the thought of filing your taxes is enough to make you sweat, you’re not alone. . Many of them may affect the 2021 tax year.

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Holiday Sales, Increased eCommerce Activity - and Sales Tax Obligations

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More than $1 in every $4 spent on retail purchases during the 2021 holiday season will come from online orders, by some estimates (with about two out of every five of those done via a smartphone, other industry observers add ). Then there’s the danger of sales tax audits. billion in U.S. Give yourself the gift of compliance.

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Will the IRS Deny Your Claim for the Employee Retention Tax Credit?

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When that prohibition was lifted nine months later by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, claims for the ERC exploded. One unfortunate side effect of the ERC explosion has been the proliferation of tax credit companies offering dubious advice in exchange for outsize fees. See generally Notice 2021-20, Q&As #23-28.

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