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Solve Your 941 Payroll Tax Problems
Solve Your 941 Payroll Tax Problems
It’s fairly common for businesses – no matter what size – to struggle with some sort of 941 tax issue or another. Even companies that use good payroll software to sort out their entire payroll related taxes are still prone to errors. The IRS implements strict guidelines when it comes to filing and paying payroll taxes in a timely manner. Are you a business owner with 941 payroll tax problems? It’s going to be difficult to obtain tax relief if you have been found guilty of deliberately failing to meet your obligations.
Late filing and payment
Late payment of payroll taxes causes your business to incur penalties and additional fees, which can be a huge problem especially if your business is already contending with cash flow issues to begin with. Small businesses, for instance, rarely have ample capital to run their operations, so when unexpected fees like these come up, cash flow is compromised.
Payroll tax problem resolution
Fifth Circuit finds tax-exempt hospital’s chairman liable for trust fund penalty
Verret v. U.S., (CA 5 2/26/2009) 103 AFTR 2d ¶2009-576
Innocent Spouse Tax Relief
Widow entitled to equitable spousal relief for some years
Martinez, TC Memo 2008-165
Offer in compromise tax relief
IRS not obligated to accept offer in compromise
Bennett, TC Memo 2008-251
No More Tax Problems
Here is a New Year resolution you can’t afford to ignore… No more tax problems!! Yes, you can get rid of your tax problems in 2009.
Offer In Compromise
Taxpayer’s failure to timely file breached offer-in-compromise justified renewed collection action Trout, (2008) 131 TC No. 16
The Tax Court has concluded that IRS didn’t abuse its discretion in finding that a taxpayer had breached his offer-in-compromise (OIC) and deciding to proceed with its collection efforts where the OIC made timely filing and payment of tax an express condition of the agreement.
S Corporation Tax
Capital contributions did not restore or increase shareholders’ tax bases in loans to S corporations Nathel, (2008) 131 TC No. 17
The Tax Court has held that taxpayers’ capital contributions to S corporations did not constitute income to the S corporations and that the contributions did not restore or increase their tax bases in their loans to the S corporations.
Trucking Employment Tax Relief
Appeals Court reverses ruling that denied taxpayer Section 530 Relief
Trucker tax relief, trucking tax relief, trucking tax problem resolution.
Trucking Tax & Accounting: Back Taxes – Unfiled delinquent tax returns – IRS & State audits – Messy books / accounting
AMT relief 2008
AMT relief in the 2008 Extenders Act I am writing to provide details regarding three key provisions in the “Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008″ (the 2008 Extenders Act), which was enacted on Oct. 3, 2008. The provisions extend partial relief to individual taxpayers from the alternative minimum tax, or AMT. Earlier temporary measures to deal with the unintended creep of the AMT‘s reach expired at the end of 2007, meaning that more than 20 million additional taxpayers would have faced paying the tax on their 2008 returns without the new relief.
Brief overview of the AMT. The AMT is a parallel tax system which does not permit several of the deductions permissible under the regular tax system, such as state, local and property taxes. Taxpayers who may be subject to the AMT must calculate their tax liability under the regular federal tax system and under the AMT system taking into account certain “preferences” and “adjustments.” If their liability is found to be greater under the AMT system, that’s what they owe the federal government. Originally enacted to make sure that wealthy Americans did not escape paying taxes, the AMT has started to apply to more middle-income taxpayers, due in part to the fact that the AMT parameters are not indexed for inflation.
In recent years, Congress has provided a measure of relief from the AMT by raising the AMT “exemption amounts”–allowances that reduce the amount of alternative minimum taxable income (AMTI), reducing or eliminating AMT liability. (However, these exemption amounts are phased out for taxpayers whose AMTI exceeds specified amounts.) For 2007, the AMT exemption amounts were $66,250 for married couples filing jointly and surviving spouses; $44,350 for single taxpayers; and $33,125 for married filing separately. However, for 2008, those amounts were scheduled to fall back to the amounts that applied in 2000: $45,000, $33,750, and $22,500, respectively. This would have brought millions of additional middle-income Americans under the AMT system, resulting in higher federal tax bills for many of them, along with higher compliance costs associated with filling out and filing the complicated AMT tax form.
