New staff accountants hired
Betsy Jarnigan, Reed Lightsey, Grace Miller, and Kimberly Christain have accepted positions at JMF as staff accountants. Click here for complete press release.
Bankers Panel and Construction Seminar Highlights
If you are an avid reader of our website and blog, you probably know that on November 2nd, we hosted a great Bankers' Panel as well as a seminar for many of our construction clients and several that soon will be clients! Just to make sure we are keeping our readers informed, here are the [...]
Government contractors facing interesting potential changes
On October 26, the House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal a law that beginning in 2013 requires tax withholding of 3% of payments to vendors and contractors providing services to federal, state and local governments and their agencies. Think of the 3% as a discount or retainage for working with the government. The [...]
Form 1099-K
1099-K FAQs DRAFT 1099-K You may start to see letters or receive requests for your TIN (taxpayer identification number) from your merchant card processor related to Form 1099-K. The 1099-K is a new information return to report certain payments made in settlement of "payment card" transactions and third-party network transactions. Here are some important facts [...]
ARA Seminars Offered – Compliance to the Alabama Immigration Law is Essential
The Alabama Retail Association is offering several seminars throughout the state highlighting ways the Alabama immigration law affects every employer. Click below for information and registration.
Ready to Close the Estate? Not Until All Claims Are Settled.
Below is a link to the Satisfaction of Claim form for Tuscaloosa County. Please contact the JMF Estate and Trust department if you need any assistance. We will be more than happy to help with this form, or if you need a similar form for another jursidiction. Click here to get the form.
Portability of Exclusion Does Not Eliminate the Need for Good Estate Planning
One of the most talked about changes to the Federal estate tax centers on the portability of the decedent spouse's unused exclusion. If elected, this new rule allows the surviving spouse to take advantage of the decedent spouse's leftover exclusion after death. However, mainstream media has taken the term "portability" and used it to make it sound "out [...]
Estate Tax Exclusion on the Rise for 2012
Revenue Procedure 2011-52 sets forth inflation adjusted items beginning in 2012 (read more). For an estate of any decedent dying during calendar year 2012, the basic exclusion amount is $5,120,000 for determining the amount of the unified credit against estate tax under §2010. This reflects a $120,000 increase over the 2011 basic exclusion amount. For [...]
Immigration Seminar
Title: Immigration SeminarLocation: Selma, AlabamaLink out: Click hereDescription: 7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. at the Central Alabama Co-Op, Community Room in Selma, Alabama. Sponsored by the Selma and Dallas County Chamber of Commerce and JamisonMoneyFarmer PC. Admission is free. RSVP required at 334-875-7241.Start Date: 2011-10-24End Date: 2011-10-26
Estate Planning Awareness Week: Sieze the Day!
"Carpe Diem" is a latin phrase translated as "Pluck the Day" or more fashionably, "Sieze the Day". The original source of the phrase is credited to the poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (more widely known as Horace). However, many less scholarly people (myself included) picked up the phrase from the character John Keating, played by Robin Williams, [...]