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The Tax Blotter – Feb. 2024

CPA Practice

The Tax Blotter is a round-up of recent tax issues and Tax Court rulings. Although audit rates have been historically low the last few years, the IRS is expected to begin targeting more individuals, especially high-income taxpayers. How long does the IRS have to audit your return? Start the clock.

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ERC Moratorium – What Does That Mean?

Withum

If a business timely filed its original 941s and no fraud is involved, then the IRS has until April 15, 2024 to deny 2020 claims, it has until April 15, 2025 to deny Q1 and Q2 2021 claims, and it has until April 15, 2027 to deny Q3 and Q4 (for recovery startup businesses) 2021 claims. In other words, playing the audit lottery is risky.

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Year-End Tax Planning Strategies for Businesses to Prepare for 2024 

Anders CPA

Pass-through entities like a sole proprietorship, partnership or S-corp, won’t see the benefits as any charitable donation made by those businesses will pass through to your personal tax return. C-corps are allowed to take a deduction on the business for charitable distributions, which can potentially reduce their taxable income.

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2023 Year-End Tax Planning Strategies for Businesses

Cherry Bekaert

Preliminary tax reporting and issue identification can be initiated before the financial statement audit is completed. and foreign taxes should review their strategies annually. Looking forward, companies should begin to plan for the sunset of many tax provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).

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Last Week in Payroll: Localization of Work

ThomsonReuters

The IRS has posted a June 2021 draft version of the Form 941 , Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Return, instructions that take into account the amended and expanded coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic tax credits and the new COBRA premium assistance credit from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Federal News.

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The Technology Lab Podcast – Tech Predictions for 2024 – Dec. 2023

CPA Practice

But if you take that into a QuickBooks Desktop discontinuance even with the sun setting, it means all of the Intuit QuickBooks Desktop products except enterprise would be gone by 2027. And, of course, we’ve seen the transition from prosystem tax into excess tax and so forth. It’s a difficult thing.