November 18, 2015
The Ultimate Year -End Guide to Payroll Compliance and Benefits
With this guide, we hope to help you navigate the ins and outs of getting your compliance and benefits ready for end of year.
November 16, 2015
How Accounting and Tax Firms Can Use the ACA to Increase Revenue Opportunity
The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has brought major change to the accounting profession as individuals and companies are increasingly turning to accountants and tax preparers for help in complying with new health care mandates and ...
November 12, 2015
Now Is the Time to Use Flex Spending Accounts or Roll Over $500
The Internal Revenue Service is reminding eligible employees that now is the time to begin planning to take full advantage of their employer’s health flexible spending arrangement (FSA) during 2016.
November 10, 2015
Hosting Options Offer Many Benefits for Accounting Firms – 2015 Review of Hosting Providers
A terrific idea for businesses for a lot of reasons, application hosting allowed users to have online access to desktop versions of their software from any location – a win-win in the business world, where more and more employees are working from ...
November 4, 2015
The New myRA Retirement Accounts Give Americans New Savings Option
With millions of Americans lacking adequate retirement savings, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has launched myRA, a simple, safe and affordable new savings option for those who don’t have access to a retirement savings plan
November 3, 2015
Grace Period or $500 Rollover for Flexible Accounts? Take Your Pick
Do you provide flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for your employees? Generally, if the FSAs aren't emptied out by year-end, the employees must forfeit the unused funds ... forever.
October 30, 2015
Baby Boomers Born in 1945 Must Start Taking Minimum Distributions from Retirement Accounts
Known as required minimum distributions (RMDs), these payments normally must be made by the end of 2015. But a special rule allows first-year recipients of these payments, those who reached age 70½ during 2015, to wait until as late as April 1, 2016 ...
October 30, 2015
Thomson Reuters Offers Checklist to Help Accounting Pros Assess Healthcare Tax Issues
This checklist is designed to be a compliance aid to assist with identifying issues and opportunities with a client’s health care coverage readiness. However, it does not detail every potential issue that may be encountered.
October 30, 2015
5 Need-to-Know Retirement Pointers
In recent years, retirement planning has received plenty of attention. In 2011, the first of the baby boomers reached what used to be known as retirement age. That kicked off an 18-year run for boomers, who’ll be turning 65 at a rate of about 10,000 ...
October 29, 2015
What’s the Best Time to Start Drawing Social Security?
The federal government allows retirees to start drawing Social Security as early as age 62, a feature that more than 40 percent of Americans take advantage of as they gladly draw from the system they spent a lifetime paying into.
October 28, 2015
How to Collect Tax Benefits for Business Bad Debts
From a business perspective, there’s practically nothing worse than providing goods or services to a customer or client and not getting paid. Or maybe you’ve made loans to vendors or suppliers that haven’t been repaid. It can take a long time to get ...
October 22, 2015
A Small Business Prescription for Health Insurance Premium Tax Credits
Employers are facing increased obligations in 2015 relating to the health insurance coverage provided to employees, but at least some small business owners might benefit from a special tax break.