IRS Announces Moratorium on the Employee Retention Credit and Provides Guidance for Civil Penalty Amnesty to Withdrawing Improper Claims, Also Known As - Don’t Deposit That Check and Hire Legal Counsel The expansion and strong marketing tactics of good-for-nothing “accounting advisors” who encouraged taxpayers to qualify for the Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) when they did not technically qualify has caused…
The European Commission’s ability to ensure that advance pricing agreements granted by member states comply with state aid rules is already under threat, but a recent advocate general opinion proposal would restrict it even further. In her June 8 opinion in Commission v. Luxembourg, C-457/21 P, concerning state aid allegedly…
Are tax troubles on your mind? It's National Get Out Of the Doghouse Day. Why not take advantage of the opportunity to clean up your finances and resolve your tax issue? Getting started now will help get you out of the doghouse with Uncle Sam (and potentially, your spouse, business…
An international tax advisor has been re-arrested and charged for his role in a conspiracy to engage in tax fraud for over seven years. Frank Butselaar, a citizen of the Netherlands, was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and five counts of aiding and abetting the…
The IRS announced today that it is reopening previously closed taxpayer assistance centers (TACs), adding additional TACs, and starting a series of Community Assistance Visits to assist taxpayers in areas where the closest TAC is prohibitively far away. Funding from the Inflation Reduction Act provided the means for the IRS…
It appears that the green energy tax breaks included in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are more popular among businesses than Congress imagined when it passed the bill. That likely will further increase the federal deficit but also reduce carbon emissions more than first forecast. Which raises the question:…
Two Tax Court decisions last month emphasize the wisdom of keeping separate accounts for your losing side gig. Donald Swanson had a charter fishing business. Susan & James Mercier played slots. In neither case were they able to establish that their activities were businesslike enough to avoid the curse of…
Flooding victims anywhere in Vermont now have until Nov. 15, 2023, to file various individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. The IRS is offering relief to any area designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including postponing various tax-filing and tax-payment deadlines for any taxpayer with…
Victims of flooding in Vermont now have until November 15, 2023 to file individual and business tax returns and to pay any taxes that were originally due between July 9, 2023 and November 15, 2023. The specific relief postpones the filing deadline for any returns with deadlines starting on July…
Most high profile and widely reported tax charges involve felonies, but not all of them. And sometimes prosecutors go for felony convictions but fall short. As has been widely reported, Hunter Biden only ended up with misdemeanor charges, to which he plead guilty. These days, few people talk about or…
Millions of taxpayers’ personal information was shared by popular online tax filing services to Meta, Google, and other Big Tech firms, according to the results of a recent congressional investigation. The probe was opened by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Bernie Sanders…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
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A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
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