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How To Make Quarterly Estimated Taxes Online — Illinois IDOR

Nancy McClelland, LLC

Reminder: Due to a new law , Illinois S-Corp and Partnership owners should generally pay quarterly IL state ( not federal) taxes through the business. The post below is about how to pay IL taxes personally ; click here for how to make IL business tax payments. and ask you what kind of tax payment you wish to make.

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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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Attorney General’s Office for Northern Illinois announced on Wednesday. The long-running TPB investigation found that Mr Carter lodged false BAS and amendments for unwitting clients and lied about their tax returns and debts that did not exist. Palos Hills Accountant Indicted In $7.8M and House of Furniture and Mattress, Inc.,

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First-Quarter “Safe-Harbor” Quarterly IRS Estimated Tax Payments: Why and How to Make Them

Nancy McClelland, LLC

For years, we have stressed the importance to our clients of making quarterly estimated tax payments. And unlike many tax preparers, we also do bookkeeping, accounting, and consulting for our small business owners — so we’ve also encouraged them to have us do a quarter-by-quarter calculation of how much to pay.

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How To Make IRS Quarterly Estimated Taxes Online — Don’t Let Your Checks Get Buried or Lost In The Mail

Nancy McClelland, LLC

The IRS “Direct Pay” landing page, There are multiple options for paying personal quarterly estimated taxes. You can: have your tax preparer create vouchers that you then print and mail with a check; prepare your own vouchers and do the same; or pay online. IRS “Direct Pay” Step 3 of 5, part one.

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Top Five Tax Benefits Your Preparer Might Be Forgetting

Nancy McClelland, LLC

(c) Nataliya Vaitkevich via Pexels I used to find it annoying when a client would forward me an article about a tax deduction or credit, to make sure I would take it on their tax return. Yet we often see this benefit overlooked on tax returns, especially when S-Corp shareholders pay for their insurance through work.

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Friday Footnotes: Working Late; The Year of the ESOP?; It’s Not Layoffs, It’s “Repositioning” | 1.5.24

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Law & Order From the Crime Desk, December 2023 [ Thomson Reuters ] Just one of the many cases listed here: Former Illinois resident, Erica Early, a postal worker who also worked as a tax preparer, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for willfully preparing false tax returns on behalf of her clients.