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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Pinning down whether an activity is a trade or business for tax purposes, whether a tax penalty should be waived for reasonable cause, or the eternal question of when income is recognized for tax purposes — these issues arise often, and CPAs can benefit from being familiar with the judicial doctrines governing them.

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS opened an online site Monday that allows taxpayers who are not required to file a 2019 or 2020 individual income tax return to sign up to receive advance child tax credit (advance CTC) payments, which will begin July 15 (see IRS News Release IR-2021-129). The “Child Tax Credit Non-Filer Sign-Up Tool”

TweetShareSharePin0 SharesGet a Jump Start on Your Taxes Preparing and filing your taxes is a less than exciting task. Much like visiting the dentist it something that must simply be done. There are ways to make it a little less painful. Get a Jump Start on Your Taxes As with many things, procrastinating on the

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS posted two sets of FAQs to its website on Friday, explaining changes to various credits made by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), P.L. 117-2. New Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit FAQs discuss changes made by ARPA that increased the maximum amount of work-related expenses for qualifying care that may

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In new final regulations (T.D. 9950), Treasury and the IRS have attempted to resolve ambiguities about when a federally declared disaster will lead to a mandatory 60-day postponement of certain time-sensitive tax-related deadlines. The final regulations adopt, with some changes, proposed regulations issued in January (REG-115057-20). The mandatory postponement provision, Sec. 7508A(d), was

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Biden administration has pledged to not raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 a year. However, the administration’s corporate tax proposals would likely violate that pledge, given that corporations are comprised of people who also might earn less than $400,000. The economic evidence suggests that in the long run, workers and

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares This post includes information about the IRS’s plans to use AI to assist taxpayers. For more insight on the legal risks tax administrations face from using AI-enabled systems, including risks to taxpayer rights, there is a Zoom lecture hosted by Antwerp and VIA Universities, HMRC, the Prosperity Collaborative, and the Center for Taxpayer