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Escalating Earnings

2023 was the year on the unexpected escalating income and under withholding. Interest rates jumped up in 2023, along with dividends.  Mutual fund companies, followed the great adage of buying low and selling high.  Capital gains were up significantly for a number of...

Estimated taxes and making the payments

This tax season we are having more and more clients having a significant tax liability; some federal, some state or both. Some clients who have been having liabilities are planning to adjust their withholding.  I hope they follow through. For most we give them...

QB payroll, keep copies of all of the records.

If you use QuickBooks Payroll to do your payroll that’s fine.  Made sure you are downloading all of the quarterly reports and keeping them safe. We had one client who used the QB service, did not save the files, then went out of business. Two years later the IRS was...

1099-DA (Digital Assets)

The IRS has issued Brokers  guidance on how to comply with reporting rules on digital assets. A 2021 law requires brokers to report the sales price, tax basis and other information on digital asset trades. The rules were scheduled to first take effect for digital...

Why is there an income tax

The Federal Income Tax from 1861 was repealed in 1872, the bills of the Civil War were paid. Alas, there were puritanicals that wanted to enforce their will and beliefs on others.  They had disdain for those cultures that drank beer or wine, and hated those who...

First Federal Income Taxes

At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Thus, the Civil War began. So did the financial requirements to fund the Civil War.  This prompted...

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