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Year-End Tax Strategies for Businesses

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The corporate tax rate is currently a flat 21% rate. There is also a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT) based on book income for companies with average annual adjusted financial statement income exceeding $1 billion. years) to a shorter depreciable tax life (e.g., 3, 5, 7, 15, or 20 years).

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Sick excuses

Accounting Today

EDT 6 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email By any other name; poor Service; a saga continues; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Rockford, Illinois: Tax preparer Gretchen Alvarez, 49, has pleaded guilty to preparing and filing false income tax returns. All rights reserved.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Prep perps

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CPA Timothy Trifilo has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for making a false statement on a mortgage loan application and for not filing an income tax return. For a decade, he did not file federal income tax returns nor pay taxes owed despite earning more than $7.7 All rights reserved. million during that time.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Negative waves

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Whitman also has not filed an individual income tax return since 1997 and has made no tax payments since 2000. In 2012, the IRS assessed nearly $800,000 in taxes against Whitman for 2002 through 2009 and began trying to collect. All rights reserved. Herman Estes Jr. In March 2023, Estes made a $1.3

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Boundless energy

Accounting Today

For every quarter from 2017 through the second quarter of 2021, the two withheld employment taxes from employees wages but did not pay them over or report them to the IRS. The agent provided Gibson with a W-2 for 2021 and offered no information about valid deductions for business losses, capital losses and bad debt.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Who ya gonna call?

Accounting Today

Brown and other ghost preparers who worked with him falsified 63 federal income tax returns for clients, causing the Treasury to issue $1,003,631 in false tax refunds. He owned and operated We Are Taxes and boasted that "Everyone Gets a Check!" All rights reserved. Brown had clients pay him a 10% fee of each refund.

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On the move: REDW appoints first OKC principal-in-charge

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GEORGIA Shelly Carmichael Smith + Howard, Atlanta, launched two new tax practices: site selection + incentives, led by Shelly Carmichael, and state and local income tax consulting, led by Brandee Tilman. Brown Plus, Camp Hill, promoted: Amanda Moats to audit manager; and Trinity Benedict and Megan Duffy to tax senior associates.