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

Nancy McClelland, LLC

We still want folks to make quarterly payments (see my related IRS & Illinois posts for how to do it online), but for the first quarter, at least, we’re asking everyone to use “safe-harbor” calculations. However, times have changed. Why Use 1Q Safe-Harbor Calculations Instead of Annualizing?

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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 basic idea is to provide them name and address data from a prior-year tax return so that… well, so they know it’s really you. Make sure you enter your name and address exactly as they appear on the tax return you are using for verification. IRS “Direct Pay” Step 3 of 5, part one.

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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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Friday Footnotes: Work-Life Balance, Does It Work?; Big 4 Firms Slash Job Postings; She Doesn’t Even Go Here! | 2.16.24

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This is according to the Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS), which surveyed 449 employers and 433 accounting and finance employees last summer and released its results last month. New this year, people can easily find step-by-step help to file their personal federal income tax return.

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The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast: Jan. 2024 – Recap of Thomson Reuters Synergy Conference

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But one of the one of the major things I think that needs to be said about it is that the major the major AI initiative that TR is chasing is the is incorporating sure preps document and information ingesting process on the front end of a tax return. And so they’re trying to use automation technology. Randy Johnston 11:39 Yeah.