WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced the tax year 2017 annual inflation adjustments for more than 50 tax provisions,… Continue reading
July 19, 2016
The Internal Revenue Service today announced that the “Get an IP PIN” tool has returned to IRS.gov with a stronger authentication process to help protect taxpayers.
The Identity Protection… Continue reading
May 24, 2016 TIGTA – 2016-15 Contact: Karen Kraushaar, Director of Communications Karen.Kraushaar@tigta.treas.gov (202) 622-6500
Five Individuals Arrested for Fraud in IRS Phone ScamsWASHINGTON — J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector… Continue reading
Theresa Turner, CPA and founder of Tax Happens is enjoying her monthly spot as an Expert Contributor on That Business Show with Jamie Meloni
Here is a link to Theresa’s appearance on Monday February 15, 2016.
IRS OFFICIAL Statement on Experiencing Systems Outage
Feb. 3, 2016
The IRS experienced a hardware failure this afternoon affecting a number of tax processing systems, which are currently unavailable. Several of our systems are not currently operating, including our modernized… Continue reading
On Monday December 21, 2015 the IRS announced the IRS will officially begin accepting electronic filing of 2015 returns on Tuesday January 19, 2016.
2016 Tax Season Opens Jan. 19 for Nation’s TaxpayersIR-2015-139, Dec. 21, 2015
WASHINGTON ― Following… Continue reading
Businesses must be certain to correctly determining whether a worker is am employee rather than an independent contractor.
Generally, the term “employee” includes any individual who, under the common law rules for determining the employer/employee relationship, has the status of… Continue reading
Theresa Turner, CPA and founder of Tax Happens will be facilitating the nine week Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University class on Mondays from 9/14/15 through 11/9/15 at 6:30 PM .
There is no charge for the classes, Theresa does… Continue reading
Wednesday March 26, 2015 was a first for me.
Jessica Rivelli of Working Women of Tampa Bay invited me to be a part of Working Women Wednesday on That Business show with Jamie Meloni.
It was my first time… Continue reading
Every business, person conducting business and nonprofit organizations have 1099 reporting requirements and must file informational returns (Federal Forms 1099) with the Internal Revenue Service for certain payments made during the course of the calendar year.
These payments include, but are not limited to:
These informational returns generally must be provided to the recipients or postmarked by January 31st. Since the 31st is a Saturday this year (2015) you have until February 2nd. The Federal filing generally must be postmarked for filing with the IRS by February 28th but since that also lands on a Saturday this year (2015) you have until March 2nd.
Failure to file these returns can result in a penalty for each 1099 return not filed.
To properly report the information required on Form 1099, you need to have the provider’s taxpayer identification number (TIN). It is best to require the provider to fill out and give you a Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification, before work is done or paying for the services. Trying to get this information after the fact can be difficult especially if there is no-longer a business relationship. W9
The following payments are NOT REQUIRED to be reported on 1099’s, although they are taxable to the recipient: Continue reading
