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How Health Care Savings Can Lead to Tax Savings: When to Recommend an HRA

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Saving for retirement is one arena where tax planners can provide value to their clients. Even your financially savvy clients may not be aware of the strategies they can use to increase the amount of money available during retirement and decrease the amount lost to taxes. The same is true for out-of-pocket expense reimbursement.

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2024 Tax Reporting Tips for Resort Employers: Worker Classification and Navigating 1099 Requirements

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In an ever-evolving and often overly complex tax compliance world, its crucial for resort operators and managers to ensure a comprehensive understanding of filing requirements and what classifies a contract worker as 1099-eligible labor. Fines: The IRS can impose fines for each misclassified worker.

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Tax Law: These TCJA Provisions Will Expire Soon

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By Ken Berry The monumental Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—signed on December 22, 2017—featured a slew of provisions affecting individuals and business entities. Conversely, most changes for businesses are permanent, such as the flat 21% tax rate for corporations, but others are temporary. Notably, it reduced the top income tax rate from 39.6%

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Understanding the World of Health Care Reimbursements: The Tax Benefits of HRAs

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What if you could save for these necessary expenses and lower your tax liability at the same time? Many taxpayers may be eligible for savings vessels, such as health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). The funds received are tax-free for the employee.

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Tax professionals can add value by

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It is time to talk with clients about value, not cost, and make the play for business beyond this year’s tax filing. Develop best practices Developing best practices is another way tax professionals can add value. Then introduce them to a tool they can use, like an expense reimbursement worksheet, to help change their behavior.

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How tax professionals can add value by investing in advisory services

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It is time to talk with clients about value, not cost, and make the play for business beyond this year’s tax filing. Develop best practices Developing best practices is another way tax professionals can add value. Then introduce them to a tool they can use, like an expense reimbursement worksheet, to help change their behavior.

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Errors in Posting Payroll

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This typically happens in at least 2 withdrawals; net pay and payroll taxes. You would post the net pay to a labor expense account and the payroll taxes to a payroll expense account. This is incorrect and causes labor to be understated and taxes to be overstated. This is the total labor expense to the company.

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