Today TaxMama® wants to give you some very big news about tax law changes. On December 20th President Trump signed into law the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act. Those 715 pages included two major tax bills – the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (SECURE Act) and the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster […]
Category Archives: *Tax Quips
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Dec
Dec
Today TaxMama® wants to give you news and some steps to take before the end of 2019. Dear Family, In the tax world, we spent this year trying to understand how to interpret all sorts of provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that was passed at the last minute […]
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Nov
Nov
Today, TaxMama® wants to talk to you about your delayed tax refund.
12
Oct
Oct
The time has come, TaxMama® said, to talk of many things. Filing deadlines, disaster extensions, and various confusions this year’s filing brings.
12
Sep
Sep
My friends, this is great news. These are excellent appointments. Sure, they know how to handle audits and collections – work with the “Small Business” taxpayer. But better than that – they also understand the taxpayer’s problems and issues and would prefer to help them prosper – or return to prosperity – than to shut […]
*AskTaxMama Newsletter, *Tax Quips, IRAs, Penalties, RMD - Required Minimum Distributions, Roth IRA
TaxMama’s TaxQuips Solid Gold
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Aug
Aug
TaxMama® learns something from a question about the required minimum distributions. Got to tell you about this! Dear Family, One of our readers asked about how to take a required minimum distribution from his IRA account, when the only asset in the account was one one-kilo gold bar. In order for you to […]
*AskTaxMama Newsletter, *Tax Quips, IRS - Information, IRS News
Interactive tool on IRS.gov helps taxpayers get answers to their tax questions
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Jul
Jul
Tax questions can pop up any time of the year. When people need answers, they should start with Interactive Tax Assistant on IRS.gov. It’s a tool that provides answers to a many tax law questions. The taxpayer enters answers to a series of questions and the tool gives them a response based on those answers. Here are […]
*AskTaxMama Newsletter, *Tax Quips, IRS News, Legislation, Retirement Accounts, Retirement Planning
Proposed Tax Legislation
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Jul
Jul
TaxMama® wants to bring some pending and potential tax legislation to your attention, today. Dear Family, On June 14th, I told you about the Taxpayer First Act that was waiting to be signed by the President. He signed that bill into law on July 1st. But there is still a lot that needs to be […]
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Jun
Jun
As you all know, we have been waiting for two pieces of tax legislation from Congress this year:
a) An extender act to reinstate some of the tax provisions that expired at the end of 2017 (mortgage insurance deduction, tuition and fees deduction, etc.)
b) A law giving the IRS specific authority to require paid tax preparers to actually know something about the tax laws and procedures. (Did you know that 46 states and the District of Columbia have absolutely no licensing or knowledge requirements for paid tax preparers?)
Well, this Bill provides neither of those eagerly-awaited bits of legislation. So what does the Taxpayer First Act do for you?
*AskTaxMama Newsletter, *Special Reports, *Tax Quips, Form W-4, IRS News
Your Opinion on the New, Proposed W-4 for 2020
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May
May
The IRS just released a draft of the Form W-4 that they a proposing to use for 2020. 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 in the country. Please open this file […]
*AskTaxMama Newsletter, *Tax Quips, FATCA, FBAR, FinCen 114, Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, Foreign Tax Credit, Form 8938, IRS News
TaxMama’s TaxQuips Americans Overseas
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May
May
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 […]
*AskTaxMama Newsletter, *Tax Quips, Amending Returns, Criminal Investigation (CID), Fraud, IRS - Information, IRS News
TaxMama’s TaxQuips Report from the IRS Meeting
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May
May
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 […]