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What’s new in sales tax?

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WalletHub has a new survey of states’ tax burdens. WalletHub compared the 50 states across the three tax types of state tax burdens — property taxes, individual income taxes and sales and excise taxes — as a share of total personal income in each state. Heaviest and lightest.

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Justice Department Continues Efforts to Stop Fraudulent Tax Preparers

CPA Practice

In December 2022, Eunice Salley, a Chicago tax preparer, was sentenced to seven years in prison for filing false income tax returns on behalf of her tax preparation clients seeking more than $1 million in fraudulent refunds. Examples of civil injunctions obtained by the Tax Division over the last year include: On Jan.

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Business Tax Rates: How Much Do Small Businesses Pay in Taxes?

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The term refers to when the IRS taxes the same income twice—once at the corporation level and again on an individual shareholder’s personal income tax. The IRS taxes corporations as separate legal entities, which opens them up to double taxation. The IRS then taxes them at the corporate income tax rate.