State payments to individuals caring for disabled relatives are tax-free. They qualify as difficulty-of-care payments under a 2014 IRS Notice (2014-7). State Medicaid programs pay for the cost of a caregiver’s home-based services provided to disabled individuals who would otherwise require institutionalized care. It is the view of IRS that these Medicaid payments are excluded […]
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A self-employed man can deduct mortgage interest paid on unused realty, the Tax Court decides. He bought land with the intent of building an office on it. He borrowed money to finance the purchase and paid interest on the loan. But before construction began, his business started to have financial problems, and he had to […]
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Business owners: Make sure your employment taxes are actually paid. You can’t just rely on the word of an employee or accountant that it’s done. Take this case in which IRS slapped penalties on a firm for failing to pay such taxes. A manager was responsible for paying the company’s payroll tax, but he didn’t […]
CPA, Federal payroll tax, IRS, Payroll, S-Owners, Small Business Tax, Tally Tax Man, Tax CourtThe new cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions faces a court test. Starting with 2018 returns, individual filers can deduct on Schedule A state and local income taxes or sales taxes, plus property taxes, up to a $10,000 limit. Conn., Md., N.J. and N.Y…all high-tax states…are suing the U.S. government. They challenge the […]
deductibles, deductions, Income Tax Planning, Income Tax Preparation, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, IRS requirements, New Tax Laws, Northside Tax Service, TallyTaxMan, Tax, tax changes, Tax Court, Tax DeductionsA firm that owns an apartment building gets bad news from the Tax Court. The property manager is an employee and not an independent contractor. His work on-site at the complex consists of leasing available units, collecting rents, doing maintenance and many other duties. He requires little to no supervision in his daily work. However, […]
casual labor, employers, Federal payroll tax, independent contractor, Northside Tax Service, Payroll, payroll tax, Payroll Taxes, Small Business Tax, Tallahassee Tax Service, TallyTaxMan, Tax CourtHoward Stern is in the clear for broadcasting a taxpayer’s data over the radio. But the Revenue Service doesn’t fare as well. A woman who called the agency for help with her tax account spoke with an employee who was on hold on another line with the Howard Stern radio show. While she and the […]
federal tax return preparers, Income Tax Preparation, IRS, Northside Tax Service, TallyTaxMan, Tax Court, tax returnBankruptcy creditors can’t grab a debtor’s individual retirement annuity. In a divorce, a woman was granted 50% of her husband’s retirement accounts, and her half was directly transferred tax-free into her 401(k) and 403(b) accounts. She subsequently used money from those two accounts to purchase the annuity in a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer and later filed […]
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