Leaderboard

Medlin has a solid accounting program at a very reasonable price: https://medlin.com/accounting-software.html Medlin also has a separate Receivable program that does invoicing: https://medlin.com/accounts-receivable-software.html I have reviewed all the documentation for the accounting program three different times. and it should do everything a small business would need. I don't use it because my larger clients need departmental accounting which it won't do. I have used Medlin's Payroll Software for 4 years now and I am very satisfied .

Tell us something we shouldn't have been able to guess. It was only a matter of time!

Unless there was tax withheld, I'd just take the 2021 amount times 1.059. It might be a couple dollars off due to rounding.

More accurately, a 3.75% discount if paying in cash. Merchant fees are not to be ignored. We ALL pay them, with a good bump in the last many years to "cover" the costs of the reward cards we all try to use. Then there is the cost of dealing with card user issues, which is now 100% DIRECTLY funded by the merchants. When someone questions a charge, the merchant has to "pay to play", so even for a $200 ticket, it is likely cheaper to accept the refund (which we all pay for in increased costs). If your clients provide a GL, look at the rate their CC fees actually are (assuming accurate entry). Processors sell on the as low as 1.99% theme, but the reality is, for most small businesses, getting an annual actual cost even near 3% is the exception.

Under normal circumstances, yes. But these aren't normal. If there is any provable history of withheld tax (from an ancient SSA-1099 or 1040 listing), I'd use the same percentage. Older folks by and large don't change withholding percentages, but let them coast for years. I had one older couple that was having way TOO much tax withheld from one retirement account, and they got 5-figure refunds every year. I reminded them for nearly a decade to cut that back, and they never did. Dealing with a retirement custodian is usually fare easier than dealing with the government, so there you go.

On a similar theme, my mother-in-law (deceased for quite a few years now) kept copies of all her tax returns. I have two framed (in one frame) hanging in my home office, from 1942 & 1943. With the Victory Bond coupons attached! Yes, her full ssn is on the returns, but that ssn was locked nearly a decade ago.

I have never been able to access what I want from e-services. After much frustration, I just gave up and have not tried it for a few years now.

This annoys me. It has been the same thing for my rare uses of e-services. Each time I'd try to access it, it was starting over with a new process. This last time I finally gave up. I got in and could never get to what I needed and kept getting a message that I wasn't authorized to access the report for that-whatever-it-was that I needed. Useless.

According to the attached TIGTA report dated 9/27/23 Login.gov is not as secure as it should be. https://www.tigta.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-10/20232S070fr.pdf In fact the use of both Login.gov and ID.me will be temporary until they can be replaced. "In July, the IRS approved a road map for a future credential service provider outlining the need for two or more CSPs, including a government and non-government option, to provide taxpayers with a choice."