If you owe more on your taxes than you are able to pay, one path to consider in reducing your tax debt is to submit an Offer in Compromise (“Offer”). This is an agreement between you and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) which settles your tax debt for less than […]
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Air BNB Tax Issues
Many clients are now renting their homes and apartments out. However, they do not realize that there are tax consequences for doing so, if the rental is for less than a period of 30 days. In other words, if you rent your home out for 29 days or less, you […]
Retroactive Tax Law Benefits for 2017
The Bipartisan Budget Act caused the Internal Revenue Service to allow three popular tax benefits to be claimed retroactively. Most of these benefits expired in 2016 but can be claimed in 2017. The Internal Revenue Service’s system has been reprogrammed to accept these benefits. The first benefit is exclusion from […]
IRS Identity Theft
Recently many individuals have used other people’s social security numbers to file tax returns, claiming refunds are owed. Typically our clients discovers this when they go to file a tax return and learn that a tax return has already been filed under their social security number. Additionally, some clients learn […]
Tax Differences Between LLCs and Corporations
If you are thinking of forming a new business, an important question to consider is how you want that business to be structured. In Indiana, there are many types of business entities, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies (LLCs), and corporations. Most businesses these days are structured […]
IRS Update: Private Companies Will Now Collect Federal Tax Debts
On Monday, the IRS announced that it would have private companies collect Federal tax debts, pursuant to a federal law enacted by Congress in December. They chose for contractors to do this: CBE Group in Iowa, Conserve and Pioneer in New York, and Performant in California. The goal of this […]
The Requirements to Abate Taxes in Bankruptcy
Generally, in a bankruptcy proceeding the debtor’s pre-petition debts are discharged; taxes are unique in that most tax debts are not dischargeable. However, some tax debts may be dischargeable depending on the type of tax, how old the tax debt is, if the debtor filed a return, and the type […]