Entertainment Industry Income tax help Every working Entertainer in the US is required to file his or her income tax returns on time and this means going through every receipt and transaction made throughout the previous year to make sure that everything is properly and accurately reported. Unfortunately, filing your…
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SoCal Tax Help
Southern California Tax Relief Services IRS tax Relief, FTB tax Relief, BOE tax Relief, EDD tax relief At Mike Habib, EA, a SoCal tax firm, we understand that being notified that your tax return is being challenged by the IRS or the FTB can be scary. When you are faced…
IRS to Audit 6,000 Companies
IRS to Audit 6,000 Companies to Test Employment Tax Compliance Source: Bloomberg By Ryan J. Donmoyer Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) — The Internal Revenue Service will audit 6,000 U.S. companies to determine whether they pay all their required employment taxes to fund Social Security and Medicare benefits. The IRS said the…
Watchdog Growls At IRS’ Audits By Mail
Watchdog Growls At IRS‘ Audits By Mail Source: forbes.com A new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration lends support to growing complaints about the Internal Revenue Service’s big audit-by-mail program. The IRS has increasingly relied on these correspondence audits, focused on one or two narrow issues, to…
IRS Urgent Letters and Notices
IRS Urgent Letters and Notices That YOU MUST ATTEND TO Mike Habib, EA IRS Audit & Examination Letters Letter 525 – General 30 Day Letter This letter accompanies a report giving you a computation of the proposed adjustments to your tax return. It informs you of the courses of action…
IRS Tax Audits and Examinations
IRS Tax Audits and Examination The US Internal Revenue Service organizes audits and examinations on tax returns to ensure tax compliance by both individuals and businesses. But because it’s virtually impossible to actually audit and examine every ITR for discrepancies, the audits are mostly randomized so your chances of getting…
Construction Industry Tax Problems
Construction Industry Tax Issues Accumulated Earnings Tax Closely held C corporations are more likely to accumulate earnings and profits beyond the reasonable needs of the business in order to avoid income taxes on its shareholders than are large C corporations. Each accumulated earnings case is unique. No pro forma guide…
IRS seeks more regulation
IRS to seek more regulation of tax preparers The IRS reported that it is working on new rules that will require paid tax preparers to be licensed. This will improve tax compliance and reduce tax preparer fraud; IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman announced that on June 4, 2009. A whopping eighty…
UBS Client Charged – First to Plead Guilty
UBS CLIENT PLEADS GUILTY TO FILING FALSE TAX RETURN HID ASSETS WORTH $3 MILLION IN SECRET SWISS BANK ACCOUNT Ft. Lauderdale Yacht Broker Second UBS Client Charged, First to Plead Guilty WASHINGTON – Robert Moran, of Lighthouse Point, Fla., pleaded guilty on criminal information charging him with filing a false…
Tax Preparer Fraud – Beware!
U.S. JUDGE BARS TWO CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS FROM PREPARING FEDERAL TAX RETURNS FOR OTHERS Father and Daughter Prepared Tax Returns That Falsified and Inflated Deductions for Customers WASHINGTON – A federal district court in Connecticut has permanently barred Wethersfield residents Deowraj Buddhu and his daughter, Sunita Buddhu, from preparing federal tax…