Entries by Jeff

IRS Looking For Taxpayers To Report Gig Economy Income, Virtual Currency Transactions, And Foreign Source Income And Assets

Chances are you are involved in one of these areas – Income from the Gig Economy, Dealing with Virtual Currency, or Having Foreign Source Income And Assets. If so, pay particular attention to what the IRS will be looking for on your 2021 income tax return. Gig economy earnings are taxable Generally, income earned from […]

Tips On Holding Cryptocurrency In An IRA To Defer Taxation

Cryptocurrency was not well known and confusing for the general public to get comfortable with but with innovations in the industry starting in 2017, cryptocurrency is becoming more widely known and accepted as a means to do business. One of those innovations increasing the popularity of cryptocurrency is the introduction of a multi-currency wallet that holds Bitcoin […]

IRS To Consolidate Processing Centers Despite Huge Backlog Of Unanswered Taxpayer Inquiries

On February 7, 2022 the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (“TIGTA”) issued a report evaluating the IRS’s efforts to close the Fresno California Tax Processing Center and its continued planned closure of the Austin Texas Tax Processing Center. The IRS entered this filing season with several million original and amended returns filed by individuals […]

IRS Continues To Expand Tax Relief From COVID

On February 9, 2022 the IRS announced additional relief for taxpayers suspending the mailing of certain enforcement letters. IRS Coronavirus Tax Relief The IRS has established a special section focused on steps to help taxpayers, businesses and others affected by the coronavirus and as information becomes available, the IRS will be updating this special page […]

Justice Department Shuts Down Three Tax Return Preparation Businesses

Recently in three separate cases, the U.S. Justice Department (“DOJ”) successfully secured injunctions from U.S Federal District Courts barring certain tax return preparation businesses from preparing tax returns and in some cases ordering the tax return preparers to disgorge the fees they obtained by preparing false and fraudulent tax returns. Terance Price – Mississippi On […]

Getting Ready For Tax Season 2022 – Did You Receive Your Third Round of Economic Impact Payments from IRS?

The IRS announced that as of February 26, 2022 all third-round Economic Impact Payments (EIP) have been issued and reminds people how to claim any remaining stimulus payment they’re entitled to on their 2021 income tax return as part of the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit. The third round of EIP is authorized by the American Rescue Plan […]

How COVID-19 And Underfunding Impacts IRS Operations And Causes Refund Delays For Taxpayers.

As required by law, once a year the Taxpayer Advocate’s Office (an independent Federal government department that monitors the Internal Revenue Service) must send a report to Congress describing challenges the IRS is facing, problems experienced by taxpayers in dealing with the IRS and recommendations to resolve these problems. On January 12, 2022, National Taxpayer […]

Getting Ready For The 2022 Tax Filing Season

This year taxpayers get at least 3 extra days to file! On January 10, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that it will process 2022 tax returns beginning January 24, 2022 (last year the opening date was February 12, 2021). The IRS states that the January 24th start date for individual tax return filers […]