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Understanding depreciation and its impact on corporate tax

ThomsonReuters

Jump to: How does depreciation affect corporation taxes? Accelerated depreciation for corporations How does depreciation work in an S corporation? What is the depreciation guidance for corporate alternative minimum tax? In short, depreciation can result in a reduction in corporate taxes.

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4 Accounting Transactions that Use Journal Entries and How to Enter them in QBO

Ronika Khanna CPA,CA

Note that if the net shareholder loan is a receivable to the corporation and you have set it up as a liability account, there will be negative liability. This would then be included in your receivables on the financial statements. Shareholder loan accounts only apply to corporations.

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Financial vs Tax Accounting

SMBAccountant

According to Investopedia, tax accounting is “a structure of accounting methods focused on taxes rather than the appearance of public financial statements”. Tax accounting applies to individuals, businesses, and corporations.

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What is a provision for income tax and how do you calculate it?

ThomsonReuters

What is a tax provision? Simply put, a tax provision is the estimated amount of income tax that a company is legally expected to pay to the IRS for the current year. A tax provision is just one type of provision that corporate finance departments set aside to cover a probable future expense.

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What’s Hot on Checkpoint for Federal & State Tax Professionals?

ThomsonReuters

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 imposes a new 15% corporate alternative (book) minimum tax on the adjusted financial statement income of applicable corporations (those with 3-year average financial statement income of at least $1 billion). The direct-pay election under Code Sec.

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What are APIs and how can they streamline tax provision calculations?

ThomsonReuters

Tax teams prepare tax provisions by gathering data, performing calculations, and entering the results into forms. However, corporate tax teams find it difficult to automate this process. What are the benefits of tax provision software? appeared first on Tax & Accounting Blog Posts by Thomson Reuters.

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How the Inflation Reduction Act Impacts Corporate AMT and Bonus Depreciation

CPA Practice

Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax is Back Congress originally introduced the corporate AMT in 1986 to prevent large companies from using tax exemptions to avoid paying income taxes, despite high earnings. Unless the IRS specifies otherwise, it remains an applicable corporation.