Newspaper Columns
- Ask The Expert
- Business
- Avoiding Problems with the IRS
- COVID Aid for Businesses
- Advantages of the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act
- Another chance for PPP tax-free cash
- COVID-19 Government aid for businesses
- Employer credits available to help businesses overcome COVID-19
- Good news for businesses that received COVID-19-related relief
- Good news for PPP loans for $50,000 or less
- Huge tax credits available for employers.
- Money from the SBA is still available for your business
- New IRS guidance for the ERC credit
- PPP funds remain for self-employed business owners
- Strategies
- Choosing the best entity for your business
- Deduct your timeshare for business
- Deducting business use of your garage
- Home office requirements for rental properties
- How to take advantage of a trip that is both business and personal
- Importance of having a business budget
- Most often missed home office deductions
- QBI Deduction for rental real estate tax savings.
- Requirements, benefits, and deductions of home office
- Skills required to be a successful entrepreneur
- Strategies for the change in business loss rules
- Tax savings from hiring your children
- The benefits of tax-saving business strategies
- The requirements and benefits of the home office
- Year-end tax planning strategies for businesses
- Year-end tax strategies for individuals
- Year-end tax strategies for stock owners
- Year-end tax tips for 2020
- Tax Changes
- General
- Audit
- Avoiding Problems
- Avoid scams by IRS impersonators
- Beware of ‘ghost’ tax preparers
- Correct tax return mistakes before the IRS discovers them
- How to handle an IRS letter or notice
- Importance of choosing your tax preparer wisely
- IRS urges caution with email, social media, and phones
- New scams by IRS impersonators
- The advantages of creating a good relationship with IRS employees
- The final six of the IRS “Dirty Dozen.”
- The first six scams of this year’s IRS Dirty Dozen
- The IRS has been looking for stimulus fraud and ineligible payments.
- The IRS Identity Protection PIN is available for everyone
- The qualifying Tie Breaker Rules to claim children
- What happens when your tax return information doesn’t match the IRS, and how to avoid it
- Filing Your Return
- Advantages and misconceptions about filing a personal income tax extension
- Advantages of e-filing
- Advice if you missed filing by the July 15 deadline
- Amended income tax returns will soon be eligible to be efiled
- Changes to 2019 tax forms
- Common tax return filing mistakes and misconceptions
- Extension options
- IRS deadline news
- General Information
- All taxpayers should check their withholding ASAP
- Backlog increasing to 35 million tax returns
- Check your federal tax being withheld
- Faster help for your IRS problems
- How to get your tax records from the IRS
- Importance of being efficient with the IRS.
- IRS offers new COVID-19 relief
- The pros and cons of a refund advance
- News
- Child Tax Credit Payment News
- How to contact the IRS
- How to deal with the current IRS confusion
- How to track your second stimulus payment
- Huge Revenue Loss From Decline in Audits
- IRS plans for expansion
- June IRS news
- Latest stimulus news
- Leaders are mounting pressure for income tax deadline to be extended.
- New IRS programs to overcome stimulus delays
- New plan to send more of your data to the IRS
- New stimulus deadline for non-filers
- Possible repayment of the advance child tax credit
- Reasons you have not received your stimulus
- Reasons your stimulus may be different than expected
- Some people must return their stimulus
- Stimulus news
- Stimulus news and tips
- Tax information for filing your 2019 return
- Taxpayer Advocate Experiencing Delays
- The IRS has new technology for taxpayers
- The IRS is beginning to reopen its phone lines
- The new child tax credit payment will be coming in July.
- Third stimulus benefits
- What’s open at the IRS in June
- Will your income tax increase or decrease in 2018?
- Tax Changes
- A brief overview of the new tax changes
- Expanded dependent care credit
- New option to qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit
- New rules for landlords and tenants
- New special tax deduction
- New unemployment rule gives millions of people a tax break
- Relief for people affected by COVID-19
- Suspension of tax liability from Marketplace health insurance credits
- Tax Liabilities
- Tax Tips