Lee B

It's a husband and wife partnership. They were referred to me by my largest business client. The wife works as a Human Resource Manager for a good sized company. The cash appears to be from the sale of their previous house. The husband used to work for his families painting business which I know nothing about. My current working agreement with them is that I will be doing their monthly recordkeeping plus their payroll. He plans to hire his nephew as an employee. In addition I will make sure they will handle any independent contractors correctly with respect to their liability insurance, workers compensation coverage and 1099 NEC reporting. I plan to very proactively stay on top of everything and if questionable stuff starts happening I will pull the plug. We see what happens?

Robert Heinlein, "Never underestimate the power of stupidity."

The total is about $20,000.

I am working with a new client (Form 1065) who started a painting business in early 2023. A lot of the equipment they are using was purchased in late 2022 for cash with no documentation. They have given me a detailed list but there are no invoices? I would appreciate any suggestions about how to handle this situation? TIA Lee

NECPA, that is a heavy load that you are carrying. I hope that you have family or close friends that can help you.

Years ago, the IRS had an interactive phone system where I filed my 941s using the keypad on my desk phone

https://www.hrblock.com/tax-center/newsroom/company-news/new-ai-tax-assist-diy/ We've been replaced

Here's an onpoint article: https://www.picpa.org/articles/cpa-now-blog/cpa-now/2019/12/27/pa-treatment-of-1099r-distributions

My understanding is that legally Foster Care and Guardianship are very similar. The main difference is that Foster Care is considered to be temporary and Guardianship is more permanent. Don't really think there is any difference for tax purposes.

This guy should have received way more than 33 months given all the aggravation he probably caused many elderly people. https://www.tigta.gov/articles/investigations/man-sentenced-his-role-nationwide-internal-revenue-service-impersonation

Some timeshares are fractional ownership which can be considered real property. Other kinds of timeshares are not, so you need to make some inquiries and find out what kind of timeshare your client owns.

We all have moments like this. The only way to move forward is to accept the mistake, learn from what you did wrong and move forward. Since I don't have any staff, I have to yell at myself. By making mistakes is how we learn what are limitations are which is why I don't do any Trust or Estate returns

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-provides-tax-inflation-adjustments-for-tax-year-2024

You could send a PM to Terry D EA. I believe he had had his own identity stolen several years ago.

https://www.identitytheft.gov/#/Steps https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/taxpayer-guide-to-identity-theft https://www.irs.gov/individuals/how-irs-id-theft-victim-assistance-works You can give them the checklist and answer questions but they are going to do a lot of the work.

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Copied from Forbes: "The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a burdensome new law that would require some 32 million closely held businesses to file invasive information with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), has just been declared unconstitutional in National Small Business United, d/b/a the National Small Business Association (NSBA) vs. Janet Yellen, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Treasury, 2024 Mar 1, 2024, U.S. District Court, N.D. of Alabama. The Court concluded: “The Corporate Transparency Act is unconstitutional because it cannot be justified as an exercise of Congress’s enumerated powers.” This case was just released, and the Government has not yet responded, so stay tuned! "

I did some online searches yesterday. A number of non authoritative sources all say that it's not tax deductible, which puzzled me. The best source I found was in The Tax Advisor: https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2021/feb/Sec-163j-classification-lender-fees.html

It might be a very slick scam, so you may not want to post it?

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I haven't had a bounced check in many years

Charitable Contribution Acknowledgement Letters

I am puzzled because it sounds like the repairs were made to get the rental ready to rent in which case they should have been capitalized.

I have posted before that I expect that Drake's software will be totally rewritten with most of the work being outsourced to India. However Cinven is very experienced and owns many different companies around the world so we may not like the changes, but I don't expect them to mess this up.

Manufacturers/Installers are required to give them the relevant documentation as to the credit they qualify for. I have had several clients in the past come to me with their tax stuff anticipating a big tax credit, promised by their salesperson. but they had no documentation. When I had them call the company who did the installation they were told no credit was available. Of course their salesperson no longer worked there.