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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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It’s been a while since we’ve done an Accountants Behaving Badly megapost ( 381 days ago , actually), here’s some bad behavior you may have missed. Twice-Convicted Accountant Is Charged With Embezzling More Than $1.1 Palos Hills Accountant Indicted In $7.8M This stock photo is incredible.

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Friday Footnotes: Anyone Wanna Work in Hollywood?; Profit-Hungry CEOs Love Gen AI; KPMG’s SF Future | 1.19.24

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. And take our 2024 Predictions for the Accounting Profession survey ! Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default.

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IRS Audit Red Flags & Triggers: How the IRS Catches You

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Claiming Large Losses From Gambling. The IRS pays heavy attention to losses claimed from gambling. This is because you can only deduct gambling losses to the extent that you report your winnings. If you gamble recreationally and claim losses, the IRS will be looking to see if you also reported your winnings in your income.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. My buddy from undergrad works office security at one of the Big 4 accounting firms in Midtown.

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Start Now to Make Your 2024 Tax Return Easier to Do

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Further, if PTP shares are owned in a retirement account, including an IRA, Roth IRA, or 401k, some of the income could become taxable in those tax-sheltered accounts. This means that the retirement account would need to file a tax return and pay tax on some of its income.

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A Checklist For Skagit County Business Owners’ For 2020 Personal Income Taxes

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Working with business owners gives the chance to do a lot of damage to tax bills … but personal taxes are still “a thing” Below is a list of what you will need during the tax preparation process on the personal side. Nonetheless, it’s a useful tax checklist.

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Instant Payment Adoption Soars Year Over Year

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percent of consumers want instant payments to a bank account, 11.7 Both Mastercard and Visa report that disbursements via debit cards to consumer and SMB bank accounts are on the rise. Both card networks are pushing money over their debit rails and instantly into the bank accounts of consumers and SMBs using their debit card aliases.