Individuals working past age 65 who want to continue contributing to a health savings account need to carefully follow Medicare’s enrollment rules to avoid significant penalties.
Qualified sick and family leave wage reporting
The IRS provides guidelines to employers for showing these wages on Form W-2.
ESG offers growth opportunities for 2022
Focus on environmental, social, and governance issues is rising amid investor and regulator interest.
Helping clients build a cyberattack recovery plan
CPAs can play critical roles in helping companies plan
their recovery from online attacks.
Ask the expert: Gift planning
Karla Valas leads fundraising for Fidelity Charitable, the nation’s largest grantmaker. Her team helps CPAs to prioritize sophisticated planning conversations that incorporate charitable strategies.
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Private tax debt collection contracts awarded … New per diem travel rates … Regs. authorize collection of excess sick and family leave credits
CAS practices see 20% growth
Respondents to a survey report higher net client fees per professional.
Persevering through supply chain disturbances
Lumber prices skyrocketed as a result of the pandemic. One homebuilder’s CFO explains how the company navigated those tough and unpredictable waters.
Estate tax closing letters now cost $67
New user fee is established by final regulations.
Amish Mehta, CPA
“I saw accounting wasn’t just about numbers — it was about getting to know different clients as well as their businesses and industries,” says Amish Mehta, CPA.
How to hide zero values
In certain scenarios, showing zero values can be
very distracting. They can be easily hidden in Excel.
Client continuance: A life vest for risky clients
Client continuance provides a firm with additional insights regarding the risk of an existing client so the firm may respond accordingly.
Business tax quick guide — tax year 2021
Download or print this quick guide for use during tax season, and look for our quick guide for individual taxpayers in the January 2022 issue.
Using stocks and other data types in Excel
You can convert text in Excel to linked data types. This is referred to as “linked” data types because the data is connected to an online data source.
Whistleblower award denied
Additional tax proceeds were assessed due to an issue unrelated to the informant’s information, the Tax Court holds.
Using the Excel personal assistant
Excel Personal Assistant can help you locate all the features Excel has to offer.
Rules for QIP under FDII and GILTI
Final regulations address calculation of qualified business asset investment.
Ask the expert: Road to digital transformation
Guy Pearson is a Chartered Accountant, Chairman of Interactive Accounting, a progressive accounting firm he founded in 2009, and an angel investor in a portfolio of companies.
Safe harbor for ERC gross-receipts test
The IRS issued a safe harbor that allows an employer to exclude certain amounts received from other coronavirus economic relief programs in determining whether it qualifies for the employee retention credit based on a decline in gross receipts
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Partnership withholding regulations postponed … Automatic accounting method change procedures updated … Tax Court surge causing erroneous taxpayer assessments
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