IRS Announces Transition Away from Use of Third-party Verification Involving Facial Recognition

In our Beyond the Bottom Line Newsletter dated January 12, 2022, we described the updated identity verification and sign-in process for several IRS online tools. As they say about not

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IRS “Report Card” Warns of a Challenging 2022 Filing Season for Taxpayers and Tax Professionals

By Steven N. Smith, CPA, JD The 2022 filing season will likely be a frustrating experience for both taxpayers and tax professionals. Individual returns can be submitted to the IRS

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Are You Taxed As a Partnership? Matters for You to Consider

For our clients and friends operating as business entities taxed as partnerships, we want to bring a few matters for your attention, including: IRS launches large partnership audits, Periodic reviews

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IRS Program for Auditing Large Partnerships to Begin Soon

Last month the IRS released a revised Publication 5319, the Large Business and International (LB&I) Focus Guide for fiscal year 2022. In recent editions of Beyond the Bottom Line, we

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Expectation of Increasing IRS Audits in the Future

Our experience at BMSS over the last three to four years is that we have seen fewer examinations of taxpayers than we did in the years prior to that period.

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Understanding Excludable Fringe Benefits

By: Cooper Melvin J.D., Staff Accountant Recent news has brought a focus on employer-provided fringe benefits and the consequences to employees and businesses if accounting is improper. Compliance with accounting

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Advance Child Tax Credit Update and Bipartisan Infrastructure

In the last Beyond the Bottom Line newsletter, BMSS briefly discussed the Advance Child Tax Credit under the American Rescue Plan enacted in March 2021. The IRS will pay half

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President Biden Introduces the American Jobs Plan

One week ago, President Biden outlined a massive $2 trillion infrastructure proposal to address some of the issues that his administration consider to be the country’s most pressing problems, including

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IRS Releases Guidance Regarding Deductibility of PPP Loan-Related Expenses

When the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was introduced as part of the CARES Act in March, the law provided that any loan forgiveness would not be included in taxable income.

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Good News for PPP Loan Recipients Regarding Deferral of Payroll Taxes

The IRS released FAQs on Sec 2302 of the CARES Act, Delay of Payment of Employer Payroll Taxes. This provision generally provides that employers may defer the deposit and payment

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IRS Issues Additional Relief Measures

Late Thursday afternoon (April 9), the IRS issued News Release 2020-66, in which they announced that Notice 2020-23 extends additional key tax deadlines for individuals and businesses. The notice, which

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