IRS Extends Tax Changes That Help Individuals and Businesses Give to Charity in 2021
In 2020 lawmakers put in place several provisions that allowed for additional tax benefits for individuals and businesses making charitable donations. As in 2020, the following tax benefits are in place: • Taxpayers who do not itemize can claim a deduction of up to...
Attention Clients with Children Age 17 and Under!
The federal government has begun to distribute child tax credit payments. You can expect to receive these payments monthly if your adjusted gross income is under $400,000 if filing as Married, or $200,000 if filing as Single, Separate or Head of Household. Please keep...
Temporary Special Rules for Health & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Arrangements
The CARES Act extensions and pandemic provisions bill allows taxpayers to roll over unused amounts in their health and dependent care flexible spending arrangements from 2020 to 2021 and from 2021 to 2022. This provision also permits employers to allow employees to...
CARES Act Changes To RMDs For 2020
2020 is a unique year as far as required minimum distributions (RMDs) are concerned. The CARES Act has suspended the requirement for most 2020 IRA distributions–including some 2019 distributions that you might have personally elected to delay until 2020. For our...