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Tax Deductions for Scuba Diving

June 24, 2011

Article reprinted with the permission of W. Murray Bradford, CPA QUESTION: I sell property and casualty insurance in Florida. I also like to scuba dive. I would like your opinion on whether or not the following is deductible. I spent five hours with a prospect. First we went on a dive, then we [...]

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2010 IRSAC Report Made Available

November 19, 2010

Washington — The Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC) issued its annual report today during a public meeting held in Washington, DC, delivering a report with a series of recommendations on a wide range of tax administration issues. IRSAC made several recommendations based on its findings and discussions, in some of the following areas: Procedures [...]

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Summer 2010 Statistics of Income Bulletin – Shows Drops in Small Business Income

September 3, 2010

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced availability of the summer 2010 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, which features sole proprietorship data for tax year 2008. About 23 million individual income tax returns reported at least one nonfarm sole proprietorship in tax year 2008, a 2 percent decrease since the prior year. Reported [...]

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IRS Issues Regulations on 10-Percent Tax on Tanning Services Effective July 1

June 25, 2010

Video: Tanning Services Excise Tax: English | ASL IR-2010-73, June 11, 2010 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today issued regulations outlining the administration of a 10-percent excise tax on indoor tanning services that goes into effect on July 1. The regulations were published today in the Federal Register. Share this:

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Ask TaxMama Issue 540 – A Long Weekend

February 12, 2010

Dear Family, This week went by so quickly, I didn’t even have time to blink. Perhaps not so for some people. Working on an article, I called the IRS DC press office one morning, only to get the answering service message that the office was closed. So contacted a couple of those cool guys by [...]

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