Criminals are not only filing bogus tax returns using other people’s identification, they are also stealing the “look” of the IRS to phish for additional financial information from taxpayers. The IRS has made numerous announcements in the past to help protect taxpayers from these scams. It repeats […]
Read more →It turns out you can go back after all – at least when it comes to last year’s decision to convert your traditional IRA to a Roth. The question is… do you want to? You might, if your circumstances have changed. For example, say the […]
Read more →IRS Announces Qualified Disaster Treatment of Payments to Victims of Hurricane Sandy are not Taxable
Washington – The Internal Revenue Service today alerted employers and other taxpayers that because Hurricane Sandy is designated as a qualified disaster for federal tax purposes, qualified disaster relief payments made to individuals by their employer or any person can be excluded from those individuals’ taxable income. […]
Read more →In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the Internal Revenue Service announced additional tax relief to affected individuals and businesses. Following recent disaster declarations for individual assistance issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the IRS announced today that affected taxpayers in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York […]
Read more →Metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax (MCTMT) – Legal proceedings and protective claims for refund Are taxpayers required to continue to pay the tax in view of the recent court ruling? All taxpayers who have been paying this tax remain subject to the tax and are required to […]
Read more →Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has declared a State Disaster Emergency for the entire state of New York. As a result of this declaration, Commissioner Thomas H. Mattox postponed certain tax filing and payment deadlines for taxpayers who were directly affected by Hurricane Sandy (see Important Notice […]
Read more →Well Hurricane Sandy left behind countless fallen trees and power lines. There were stories of tragedy and survival, of people who lost everything when the water rushed in, of buildings that crumbled after being pounded hour after hour by rain and relentless wind, of hospitals that had […]
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