Tag Archives: Income tax in the United States

Home Office Carryforward

Today TaxMama hears from Erin in Washington State who wants to know. “For the unused home office deduction, can I choose not to claim home office deduction in the years of loss and claim it when I make a profit?”

Author's Sales

Today we hear from Robin in Tennessee who has lots of questions. “I am a published author and would like to sell some of my books myself.https://www.richereducation.co.uk/wp-content/languages/new/type-a-paper-online.html How do I report this income to the IRS? Does the IRS consider this selling as a small business? And if so, will I need an employer identification […]

Poker Tournament Winnings Must be Reported to the IRS

IR-2007-173, Oct. 19, 2007 [Courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service] WASHINGTON — Starting next year, casinos and other sponsors of poker tournaments will be required to report most winnings to winners and the Internal Revenue Service, according to the IRS. The new requirement, which goes into effect on March 4, 2008, was contained in guidance […]

No Notary

Today TaxMama hears from Mark from Brooklyn, who asks, “is income from a notary public considered income for the EIC (the Earned Income Credit)?buy ivermectin online pavg.net/wp-content/languages/new/where/ivermectin.html no prescription Most people I asked, said at their first instinct that, yes it is. But when I make them aware that this income is exempt from self-employed […]

Don’t Overlook Tax Breaks

Tax-filing Extension Expires Oct. 15; Don’t Overlook Tax Breaks, Choose e-file or Free File, IRS Urges IR-2007-165, Oct. 5, 2007 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today urged taxpayers whose tax-filing extension runs out on Oct. 15 to double check their returns for often-overlooked tax breaks and then file their returns electronically using IRS e-file […]

Foreign Exclusion Unfiled

Today we hear from Yusuf, in CT who just came back from working overseas.buy antabuse online https://tjurhat.com/evemedica/wp-content/languages/new/antabuse.html no prescription “I have been working abroad for many years (since 1990). I filled on time for the first 5 years. Then a friend informed me that as long as I was under the allowable income level there […]

Recent IRS Revenue Procedures

Revenue Procedure 2007-59 that permits certain partnerships to aggregate gains and losses from an expanded class of qualified financial assets for purposes of making reverse § 704© allocations under § 1.704-3(e)(3) of the Income Tax Regulations. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-07-59.pdf Revenue Procedure 2007-63 updates the rules for determining the amount of an employee’s ordinary and necessary business expenses […]

Gift and an Exemption

Today we hear from Tracy in Florida who’s quite unclear. (Every once in a while, I like to show you an unedited question. See if you can figure out what she is asking.) “If you make $65,000 and you have a gift receipt for $90,000 (something you gave, not you were given) claim one dependent, […]

Forged 2005

Today we hear from Veronica in New York who has this story.buy flagyl Canada http://healthinschools.org/wp-content/languages/new/canada/flagyl.html no prescription “I received a letter from IRS requesting $2,800 for 2005. I was married in 2005, but left my husband on September 1, 2005 and haven’t been back since.https://www.thebesthealthnews.com/wp-content/languages/new/strattera.html I filed my own separate income tax for year 2005 […]

IRS Issues Summer 2007 Statistics of Income Bulletin

Courtesy of IRS – IR-2007-153 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced the release of the summer 2007 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, featuring data from 21.5 million individual income tax returns that reported non-farm sole proprietorship activity in tax year 2005. Profits from all non-farm sole proprietorships totaled $269.9 billion in […]

Excise Tax Refund – Don’t Forget to Claim it!

Phone Customers Can Still Request Excise Tax Refund, IRS Says Courtesy of IRS IR-2007-144 WASHINGTON — Telephone customers can still request this year’s one-time excise tax refund, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Most phone customers, including most cell-phone users, qualify for the refund. The refund covers the three-percent tax paid on long-distance and bundled […]