More than 90 percent of identity thieves and data breaches start with a phishing email. Phishing scams pose as a trusted company: maybe your bank, a favorite retailer, or your state tax agency - even the IRS. Here's one way to recognize a scam: the phishing emails tells an urgent story. For example, there's a [...]
Here's the Part 2 video explaining how to submit a complete and correct Form 8300, Report of Cash Transactions Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or Business. In situations where a transaction is being conducted on behalf of more than one person, including a married couple, or a parent and child, or an employee for an [...]
If you're required to file a business tax return, you're going to need an employer identification number. Taxpayers who use EINs include employers, sole proprietors, corporations, partnerships, non-profit associations, government agencies, and other business entities. You can apply for an EIN online by visiting IRS.gov/EIN. You can also apply by fax or by mail. Just check [...]
This article was published by the IRS. The Internal Revenue Service is making it easier for taxpayers to file their taxes by adding information return documents to their IRS Individual Online Account, helping consolidate important tax records into one digital location. The first information returns to be added are Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement and [...]
This article was published by the IRS. The Internal Revenue Service is reminding those aged 73 and older of the deadline to take required minimum distributions from individual retirement arrangements (IRAs) and other retirement plans, and highlighted updates introduced by the SECURE 2.0 Act. Required minimum distributions (RMDs) are amounts that many retirement plan and IRA [...]
