The PATH Act includes three significant changes affecting provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The tax on high-cost Cadillac health insurance plans is delayed for two years, from 2018 to 2020. The 2.3% excise tax paid by manufacturers of medical devices is halted for 2016 and 2017. There’s a moratorium for one year—until 2017—on [...]
By: Rachel Taylor, CGMA, CPA, Tax Manager Rachel is a member of the JMF Tax Department. With more than seven years of experience in public accounting, she assists clients with corporate, partnership, and individual income tax return reporting as well as complex issues regarding multiple state filing and other state tax issues. Late on Tuesday, December [...]
As an American living overseas, each year you have to gather the information required to file a U.S. return. Unlike your compatriots, residing across the pond comes with its own process: complicated and with more risk and penalties. The following article sheds light on the expat, tax forms you will need in order to file your return. This is the [...]
Linda Wang of the United States Department of Agriculture has created a summary of the newest tax laws related to timber. Tax laws on timber transactions are very specialized knowledge that are not commonly known. Yet they are important to timber owners in terms of the ongoing cost of owning and managing timber, forest stewardship [...]
Are you retiring and moving to Florida or relocating due to a new job? If you are moving out of state, the following article will assist you in what you need to consider with regard to documenting and reporting your change in address as well as income tax consequences. Click the link to read the full [...]
Officials Say the Actual IRS Will Never Make First Contact by Phone Con artists posing as Internal Revenue Service agents are back in the news. Despite previous warnings from government officials, some taxpayers still haven't gotten the message. "There are clear warning signs about these scams, which continue at high levels throughout the nation," IRS [...]
A new Alabama income tax credit is available for Alabama individuals and businesses that contribute cash to the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education (ADPE) for qualifying educational expenses directly associated with the state’s Career‐Technical Dual Enrollment Program. The tax credit was created by House Bill 384 (Act No. 2014‐147, the “Act”), which was sponsored by [...]
Beginning at 12:01 a.m. (CST) on Friday August 1, 2014, and ending at twelve midnight on Sunday August 3, 2014, Alabama will hold its 8th annual sales tax holiday giving shoppers in Tuscaloosa County the opportunity to purchase certain school supplies, computers and clothing free of state and local sales tax. Not all cities participate [...]
We get this question a lot at this time of the year. If your tax return is on extension and you are now preparing the return, can you still make an IRA contribution? Maybe, but generally the short answer is No. The deadline for making most IRA or Roth IRA contributions is April 15th for [...]
Last week, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that inherited IRAs are not protected in bankruptcy under federal law. The Court’s decision resolved the bankruptcy question about inherited IRAs in the federal courts, but it does not resolve all questions because state laws also control the bankruptcy protection. Each state’s law is different, here is a [...]