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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By Karin Price Mueller, nj.com (TNS) The IRS on Thursday released updated tax brackets and standard deductions for 2024. While the actual percentages of the tax brackets will remain the same until 2025 because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the income levels of each bracket change annually to adjust to inflation.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

29—FARMINGTON — An accountant pleaded guilty in Bridgeport Thursday to filing fraudulent tax returns for multiple years after failing to report $1.4 million in income, federal officials said. Legowski prepared tax returns for between 400 and 500 individual clients, 50-60 businesses, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

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MARCH 21, 2024

By Dave Eisenstadter, masslive.com (TNS) A 17-year veteran of the IRS was arrested on Wednesday and charged with filing false personal tax returns for three years and underreporting about $90,000 worth of income, according to Acting U.S. ©2024 Advance Local Media LLC. ©2024 Advance Local Media LLC.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

26, 2024 Thanksgiving and Christmas are here, and that means the end of the year is coming up soon, and tax season will follow soon after. Although Americans dislike the IRS and bemoan taxes, many millions actually look forward to getting a tax refund, and start thinking of how they will spend it. Updated: Nov.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It’s almost January, which means the 2024 income tax filing season is coming soon. Although last minute tax law changes can have an impact, the IRS usually starts accepting e-filed income tax returns in the last week of January each year. Updated: Dec. 26, 2023 , 9:31 pm ET.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Thirteen states have agreed to participate in a trial run of the IRS’s free online return filing system, called Direct File, during the 2024 tax season, the agency said on Tuesday. A free, government-run, online tax-filing system for taxpayers has been talked about as a possibility for many years.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 15, 2024

It’s Tax Day, so there’s no better time for the IRS to pat itself on the back for a job well done as filing season for most Americans comes to a close. Danny Werfel “Taxpayers continued to see major improvements from the IRS during the 2024 tax season,” he said. “A From the start of tax season on Jan.

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SkagitCountyTaxServices

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The IRS will be focused less on working-class taxpayers and increasingly toward high-income individuals and corporations. Specifically, that means high-income earners, partnership income tax returns, large corporations, and promoters “aggressively peddling abusive schemes.” in those accounts.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 8, 2024

The IRS has announced that it will start accepting and processing income tax returns on January 29, 2024. The deadline to file returns in 2024 is April 15 (this sometimes varies based on weekends or state holidays). That’s without an expensive “tax refund loan” or other similar product.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The Internal Revenue Service reminds individual retirement arrangement (IRA) owners age 70½ and older that they can make up to $105,000 in tax-free charitable donations during 2024 through qualified charitable distributions. Each eligible IRA owner can exclude up to $105,000 in QCDs from taxable income. Tax Return for Seniors.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

The IRS urges taxpayers who are unable to pay their full balance due to visit IRS.gov/payments to make arrangements to resolve their tax debts. The IRS is also waiving the failure-to-pay penalties for eligible taxpayers affected by this situation for tax years 2020 and 2021. The IRS estimates 5 million tax returns—filed by 4.7

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

December is here, which means the 2024 tax filing season is coming soon. The IRS usually starts accepting e-filed income tax returns in the last week of January each year, with the deadline being April 15 (which can vary based on weekends or state holidays).

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It’s almost January, which means the 2024 income tax filing season is coming soon. Although last minute tax law changes can have an impact, the IRS usually starts accepting e-filed income tax returns in the last week of January each year. Paper check refunds can take a little longer.

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ThomsonReuters

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As we step into a new year, the taxation realm is abuzz with discussions surrounding the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024. However, amidst this spotlight, there are other tax proposals quietly gaining momentum. Also, the act addresses the use of optical character recognition (OCR) software.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Internal Revenue Service opened the 2024 tax season on January 29, 2024, accepting and processing federal individual tax returns, and announcing that it expects more than 146 million individual tax returns for 2023 to be filed this filing season.

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Withum

MARCH 7, 2024

The VDP allow taxpayers to keep 20% of the ERC claimed, tax free, as well as the interest received, but taxpayers must apply to the program by March 22, 2024, and agree to extend the statute of limitations. Should I File a Protective Income Tax Refund Claim? Is There Legislation Pending That Would Alter the ERC?

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The disaster declaration also means that Rhode Island businesses and residents impacted by the storm have until June 17, 2024, to meet various tax filing and payment deadlines originally due between Sept 10, 2023, and June 17, 2024. 2023 quarterly estimated income tax payments normally due on Jan.

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Withum

AUGUST 14, 2024

On August 9, 2024, the IRS announced relief from certain tax filing and payment deadlines for individuals and businesses in all of South Carolina, most of Florida and North Carolina, and part of Georgia that were affected by Hurricane Debby.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The IRS and the Treasury Department on Tuesday issued final regulations pertaining to companies filing returns and other documents electronically starting in 2024. Earlier regulations applied the 250-return threshold separately to each type of information return covered by the regulations.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

What can be even more frustrating is when those examinations seem unevenly targeted to taxpayers with lower incomes. That’s been the case with the earned income tax credit (EITC), which has been the subject of recent controversy. (A Fewer IRS audits involving credits for taxpayers with lower incomes?

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the 2024 tax filing season starting later this month, the IRS is launching a special Tax Professional Awareness Week , from Jan. 8-14, 2024, to assist tax professionals on what to expect during the filing season and start the year on the right foot.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Unless something changes legislatively (some groups are asking Congress for 1099-K relief for casual online sellers), the $600 rule will apply for the 2023 tax year (i.e., federal income tax returns that are normally filed in April 2024). Will you have to pay taxes on your ticket sales?

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 22, 2024

While the actual percentages of the tax brackets will remain the same until next year because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the income levels of each bracket change annually to adjust to inflation. These tax rates are for the 2025 tax year covering tax returns that will be filed in 2026.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 11, 2024

A small part of that can be explained by the calendar—last year’s tax season began a week earlier than this year—but the number of tax returns received and processed is only about 2% lower than this point in the tax season last year, according to the statistics. ©2024 Advance Local Media LLC. Visit masslive.com.

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Canopy Accounting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts , documents the income an estate earns after the estate owner passes away. It’s also used to track income before any beneficiaries receive designated assets. In other words, Form 1041 is used to report the income, deductions, gains, and losses of an estate or trust.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 18, 2024

The IRS said on Thursday that tax-exempt groups won’t be able to e-file Form 990-T , Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return , or Form 1120-POL , U.S. Income Tax Return for Certain Political Organizations , until March 17, 2024. An organization with a Form 990-T due from Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

15, 2024, to file their tax returns and make tax payments because of Hurricane Lee’s impact. The IRS is offering tax relief to any area designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) , and all 16 counties in Maine and all 14 counties in Massachusetts qualify. 15, 2023, and Jan. 31, 2023, and Jan.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The IRS on Tuesday announced disaster tax relief for all individuals and businesses affected by Hurricane Helene, including the entire states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, as well as parts of Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia. 22, 2024, in Alabama; Sept. 31, 2024, and Jan. 23 in Florida; Sept.

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JULY 8, 2024

(TNS) The IRS announced tax relief for individuals and businesses in parts of Kentucky affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, landslides and mudslides that began on April 2, 2024. 1, 2024, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make payments. at www.thetimestribune.com.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Internal Revenue Service has given tax relief for individuals and businesses in parts of Washington state affected by wildfires that began on Aug. These taxpayers now have until June 17, 2024, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. 16, 2024, and April 15, 2024.

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MARCH 29, 2024

7, 2024, various tax-filing and tax-payment deadlines for individuals and businesses affected by the Aug. The previous federal tax relief, announced shortly after the fires, mainly lasted through Feb. 15 , which did not cover federal income tax filings for tax year 2023. 8, 2023, wildfires in Hawaii.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The Internal Revenue Service today announced tax relief for individuals and businesses affected by Idalia in parts of Florida. 15, 2024, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. 15, 2024, (postponement period). These taxpayers now have until Feb. 15, 2023, and Jan.

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Withum

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The tax relief postpones certain tax filing and payment deadlines that started as early as September 22, 2024, to May 1, 2025. May 1, 2025 2024 Form 1065 March 15, 2025 *Postponement date would allow a proper extension until October 30, 2025. What does the filing and payment relief apply to?

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Xero

AUGUST 11, 2022

Frankly, you already have enough to remember, thanks to Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT and Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA). The government legislation with the goal of digitising the tax process has been underway for some time, and the next step is looming large on the horizon.

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Accounting Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

million individual tax returns by the April 15, 2024, tax deadline. The agency is anticipating over 128.7

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Today marks the start of the long and grueling road ahead for CPAs and enrolled agents as the IRS has begun accepting 2023 federal income tax returns. So with that in mind, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel had a message for all tax professionals as they embark on another filing season: Thank you.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

24, 2024, to file various individual and business tax returns. 16 and lets qualified taxpayers prepare and file federal income tax returns online using guided tax preparation software. It’s available to any person or family with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $73,000 or less in 2022.

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