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Your Opinion on the New, Proposed W-4 for 2020

The IRS just released a draft of the Form W-4 that they a proposing to use for 2020.buy canadian tadalafil online https://mabvi.org/wp-content/languages/new/canadian/tadalafil.html no prescription https://mannadew.co.uk/wp-content/languages/new/viagra.html They came up with this after meeting with a national trade group of payroll tax processors – the folks who prepare the vast majority of payrolls and payroll tax returns […]

TaxMama’s TaxQuips Americans Overseas

Lately, TaxMama® has been getting questions from tax professionals about clients who have moved out of the U.S. and have not filed tax returns. Those folks are now in deep trouble. Dear Family, If you have American family,  friends or associates living or working outside the United States, please check with them immediately.  Make sure […]

TaxMama’s TaxQuips Report from the IRS Meeting

  Photo by jaingolfsland  Last week, TaxMama® visited the IRS, at our Practitioner Stakeholder Liaison meeting. Here is a brief summary of our six-hour session. Dear Family, Believe it or not, one of my favorite activities is spending time with the IRS. Over the years, the terrifying auditors and collections officers become real people I […]

Small Business Week

  TaxMama® welcomes you to Small Business Week! The IRS has been sending out all kinds of helpful information. (You know – I’m from the IRS and I’m here to help you!) Dear Family, It is, indeed, Small Business Week. And since many of you own your business, or run a business or profitable hobby […]

Correcting and Avoiding Errors

TaxMama® is hearing from readers or friends about things they left off their tax returns, or errors they made in the course of filing…perhaps a little too soon. Dear Family, TaxMama®  is a big proponent of the “slow-down” philosophy. Use the extension. Take the time to review the tax return and the information in it […]

5 Tips about Medicare

While working on a client’s tax return last month, I noticed that he was over 65. Still an active executive of a Fortune 100 company, his human resources department had informed him that he doesn’t need to file for Medicare, since he has full insurance coverage.  Opps! That’s bad advice.

Tax Day 2019 Last Minute Tips

Today is a day of deadlines – important ones. So please pay attention!
Myth-busting–Filing an extension does not increase your audit risk.

LLC Option Myths

Let’s just clear up some myths about LLCs and the rush to make entity changes. Here are the high points:

March Deadlines

___________________________________________________________   Just a quick note to alert you to some deadlines. Sunday, March 10th – Daylight Savings starts – move your clocks forward Friday, March 15th – Webinar –  Everything you Wanted  to Know about the EA Exam 2019 March 15 10:00 am Pacific https://iTaxMama.com/Everything_EA_March Friday, March 15th – LOTS of deadlines  Partnership returns are […]

2018 and 2019 Tax Extenders

Today TaxMama® wants to alert you to a tax extender bill sitting in Congress. It’s the Tax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 2019. Dear Family, Great news! The extender bill that Congress is working on will buy us two years of (relative) certainty about our tax lives. The  provisions in this bill will extend […]