Contrary to the manufactured 'news' dribbling out of the main stream media to sell advertising, last week the IRS published updated employer's withholding guidance clearly stating that employers are to now withhold Social Security tax at the rate of 6.2 percent of wages rather than the previous rate of...
Our esteemed President has proven to me to be extraordinarily disingenuous with his statements about the middle class and their purported tax obligations as pretty much everyone's taxes will go up in 2013 as a direct result of the cumulative efforts of our 'elected officials'...
Regarding S Corp Late Filing Penalty Excused IRC 6699 Ensyc Technologies v. Comm'r, T.C. Summary 2012-55 (6/14/12) - considering the scope of the reasonable cause language to the Code Sec. 6699 penalty for late filing of an S corporation return, the Tax Court determined that the failure to...
According to IRS Publication 3, Armed Forces Tax Guide if you are a member of the Armed Forces on active duty and you move because of a permanent change of station, you do not have to meet the distance and time tests, addressed in IRS Publication...
In 2010, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act added Code Sec. 6038D requiring individual taxpayers with an interest in a specified foreign financial asset during the tax year to attach a disclosure statement to their income tax return for any year in which the aggregate...
A new Net Investment Income Tax goes into effect starting in 2013. The 3.8 percent Net Investment Income Tax applies to individuals, estates and trusts that have certain investment income above certain threshold amounts. The IRS and the Treasury Department have issued proposed regulations on this...
The distinction of how this is possible distills down to understanding the nuanced difference between a 'Continuous' and a 'One Time' IRS tax levy. Under Code Sec. 6331(h) once a tax levy is approved, the effect of the levy on specified payments received by a taxpayer is...
IRS CP2000 notices are annoying for a wide variety of reasons but mostly because the IRS assumes that most all items reported on line 21 of IRS From 1040 are subject to self-employment (SE) tax. Much of what goes on line 21 (trustee fees for executors,...
Trader or an Investor in Securities? Van Der Lee v. Commissioner TC Memo 2011-234 helps clarify matters. While many individual taxpayers claim to be traders in securities as compared to investors, in Henricus C. van der Lee, et ux. v. Commissioner TC Memo 2011-234 we learn in my...
A reverse mortgage is generally a loan where a lender pays a lump sum, a monthly advance, a line of credit, or a combination of all three to you while you continue to live in your home and retain title to it. Plans vary but for the...