On June 15, 2017, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 102, which transfers nearly all tax administration and appeal functions from the BOE to two new tax departments: the Department Of Tax And Fee Administration (“DTFA”) and the Office Of Tax Appeals (“OTA”). Starting January 1, 2018, California State tax appeals will be heard by […]
Forgot To Include A Deduction? Did Not Pick Up All Your Income? Considerations On Filing An Amended Return If you filed a tax return only to later realize that it was not complete or you did something incorrect, you can correct this by filing a Form 1040X, Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return. But before […]
Paul Manafort and Richard Gates, two former top campaign officials for President Donald Trump, have been indicted on 12 counts, according to documents made public on October 30, 2017, making them the first people to be charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into 2016 foreign election interference. In a 31-page indictment, federal prosecutors alleged […]
The kids should be ready for Halloween but are you ready to take advantage of making this holiday to be tax deductible? Yes your Halloween Candy could be a tax deduction…. You can in fact deduct Halloween candy if you figure out a way to make it business related. The IRS doesn’t say a lot […]
With so many people whose lives were disrupted by the California wildfires, it is welcome relief that the Federal and State Tax Agencies are providing extra time to taxpayers to meet their tax obligations. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) The IRS announced that victims of wildfires ravaging parts of California now have until January 31, 2018, […]
The IRS is the world’s largest and most powerful collection agency (and the staggering fact that Congress has allowed them to start outsourcing debt collection to private third parties doesn’t change this). Therefore, if you owe the IRS money, there is nowhere to run and no place to hide. It is only a matter of […]
Although more couples these days are choosing to customize and personalize their wedding vows and break with the traditional “to honor and obey” language, it’s a safe bet that not even IRS agents who tie the knot promise not to burden their betrothed with an unfair tax liability. However, that is indeed the financial problem […]
The adage “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing” is vividly — and sometimes catastrophically — illustrated when it comes to anything and everything to do with the IRS. Indeed, the amount of so-called good advice available on the web and across social media that is partially or wholly incorrect is staggering, and many taxpayers […]
For many reasons — some of which are justified and necessary, and others that frankly do not make sense and obfuscate rather than clarify — the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) is an excessively complex set of volumes, which contain laws enforced by the IRS (published as Title 26 of the United States Code/USC). Partly due […]
People who have undisclosed income in offshore accounts can — and frankly, should — take advantage of the IRS’s Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP). As the term suggests, the program allows taxpayers to voluntarily disclose all foreign accounts and fully clear their tax liability (including taxes owed, interest and penalties), instead of risk getting flagged […]
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