by Leif Jensen | May 8, 2017 | General |
This year we were hired to prepare the final return for an investment club. Once hired for the investment club return, we were asked by a couple members to prepare their individual returns, we offered to do any members personal return for our minimum fee. There were...
by Leif Jensen | May 3, 2017 | General |
In 2014 when Oculus VR was sold to Facebook for $2 billion, some asked: What if the people who backed the virtual-reality startup two years earlier on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter had received shares instead of T-shirts or VR headsets? The answer to the question...
by Leif Jensen | May 2, 2017 | General |
“The Fed has long known most of the $100 bills aren’t in America. It doesn’t take great insight to realize they are being used to finance illicit activities,” Alan Blinder, Princeton University economist and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, said in an...
by Leif Jensen | May 1, 2017 | General |
It has been deemed that IRS agents cannot proceed with a levy that creates economic hardship. But this rule does not apply to levies against corporations, according to the the Tax Court. After a corporation that ran a nursing home did not pay its quarterly...
by Leif Jensen | Apr 26, 2017 | General |
A firm that runs a limousine transportation business recently received bad news from IRS. It found out that it was liable for payroll taxes that were not paid by an employee leasing company. The taxpayer leased its workforce from the leasing company and...
by Leif Jensen | Apr 25, 2017 | General |
With the new boxes on Form 1098, the IRS is collecting more data on home mortgage interest. Lenders must now report the amount of principal outstanding at the start of the year, the mortgage origination date and the address of the property securing the loan....
