by Tiffany Mellow | Aug 1, 2018 | Business Taxes
The 2018 IRS Forum was a valuable source of information regarding the upcoming tax filing season. Among the many tidbits I gleaned were issues of IRS concern relating to small businesses. The IRS has announced they are going to scrutinize such things as: personal use...
by Tiffany Mellow | Jul 25, 2018 | Business Taxes, Non-Profit Taxes, Personal Taxes
Last week I spent three fantastic days at the IRS Nationwide Tax Forum! Many new tax laws and changes to the tax forms are slated for the next filing season. The amount of new information, procedural changes and tax form modifications discussed was at times,...
by Tiffany Mellow | Jul 18, 2018 | General
This week, I will be attending the IRS Tax Forum at the Gaylord Hotel in National Harbor, Maryland. The forum is a special opportunity for Tax Practitioners to attend presentations where the internal processes of the IRS are discussed. This offers insight in to...
by Tiffany Mellow | Feb 5, 2018 | Business Taxes, Non-Profit Taxes, Personal Taxes
Deceitful communications come via phone, email, postal mail, and sometimes even a knock on your door. It’s important to know that the IRS does occasionally contact taxpayers, but when they do, it’s most often by mail. Sometimes the IRS needs to verify a taxpayer’s...
by Tiffany Mellow | Jan 15, 2018 | Business Accounting, Business Taxes
The Schedule C for an unincorporated business and the Schedule F for farming activities are the forms MOST AUDITED by the IRS! The IRS has published the following list of issues they scrutinize when auditing the Schedule C and the Schedule F: Lack of record keeping...