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IRS to Furlough Employees on Five Days; Operations Will Shut Down Entirely The IRS will be closed for business on five days falling between May 24 and August 30. NTEU Press Release (4/19/13). Late last week, the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) announced that...
1. Tax Returns. ALWAYS keep tax returns.They take very little space and if there is ever an argument the return was not filed, at least you have a copy. 2. Backup records. Any written evidence that supports figures on your tax return, such as receipts, expense logs,...
Rev Rul 2013-11, 2013-20 IRB The Applicable Federal Rates for May 2013 are reproduced below. Table 1 Applicable Federal Rates (AFR) for May 2013 Period for Compounding Annual Semiannual Quarterly Month Short-Term AFR .20% .20% .20% .20% 110% AFR .22% .22% .22% .22%...
3% personal and 2% Corporate Overpayment Rates IRS has announced that the interest rates for tax overpayments and underpayments for the calendar quarter beginning Apr. 1, 2013, will remain the same as for the first quarter of 2013. For noncorporate taxpayers, the rate...
IRS Issues Annual Advice on Missing Form W-2’s Each year, the IRS issues annual advice on actions a taxpayer should take when the taxpayer has not received his or her Form W-2. IRS Website (2/8/13). According to the IRS, if a taxpayer has not received his or her Form...
RELATIVES AS DEPENDENTS You can take exemptions for qualifying relatives. Rule: A relative does not have to live with you and there is no age requirement. Support: First, you must be supporting the qualifying relative. Qualifying Relative: In order to be a qualifying...
EMPLOYERS – ARE YOU STUCK WITH “OBAMACARE” Obamacare is a disaster for employers that have low wage employees. Frankly, many companies will need to change how they conduct business in order to stay competitive. Number of Employees Does your business have emough...
You cannot claim your child as a dependent if: You are being claimed as a dependent by someone Your child is married and filing a joint tax return (unless he/she is filing just to claim a refund of withheld tax and isn’t taking a personal exemption) Your child is not...
Roth IRA Rollovers For the past few years, plans with designated Roth accounts could allow an individual to roll over an amount from a non-Roth account into the individual’s designated Roth account in the same plan, but only amounts the individual could have had...
Well-drafted contracts prepared by your tax and business attorney can provide protection for the parties signing it. Contracts determine rights and obligations. Yet, many businesses enter into transactions with poorly written contracts or contracts with “boilerplate”...
