People who receive an Economic Impact Payment this year should keep Notice 1444, Your Economic Impact Payment, with their tax records. This notice provides information about the amount of their payment, how the payment was made and how to report any payment that wasn’t received. For security reasons, the IRS mails this notice to each [...]
The Internal Revenue Service today released Notice 2020-50 (PDF) to help retirement plan participants affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus take advantage of the CARES Act provisions providing enhanced access to plan distributions and plan loans. This includes expanding the categories of individuals eligible for these types of distributions and loans (referred to as “qualified individuals”) [...]
Millions of eligible individuals have already received their Economic Impact Payments. Some people, including those who received a payment for a deceased individual, may be unsure whether they should return a payment. Here is additional information about returning an Economic Impact Payment. How should an individual return an Economic Impact Payment? Mail the payment to [...]
The Internal Revenue Service has advised that new rules under the CARES Act provide flexibility for health care spending that may be helpful in the current environment where more people may need at-home services due to measures to fight the coronavirus. Telehealth and High Deductible Health Plans Under the CARES Act, a high deductible health [...]
For most taxpayers the filing and payment deadline was postponed July 15. Those who need more time to file beyond the postponed date, can request an extension to file. Taxpayers must request an extension to file by July 15. This gives them until October 15 to file their tax return. An extension to file is [...]
Childcare or adult dependent care can be a major expense. Fortunately, the child and dependent care credit can provide some relief. Taxpayers who pay for daycare expenses may be eligible to claim up to 35% of what they spend; limits apply. For the purposes of this credit, the IRS defines a qualifying person as: • [...]
The Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers to guard against tax fraud and other related financial scams related to COVID-19. In the last few months, the IRS Criminal Investigation division (CI) has seen a variety of Economic Impact Payment (EIP) scams and other financial schemes looking to take advantage of unsuspecting taxpayers. CI continues to [...]
The Trump administration signed into law the new rules and forgiveness guidelines relaxing the previous rules for small business owners who received a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program. Many small business owners who borrowed a loan for the Paycheck Protection Program, a $610 billion fund established at the end of March, experienced that the [...]
The Internal Revenue Service today announced that interest rates will decrease for the calendar quarter beginning July 1, 2020. The rates will be: three (3) percent for overpayments [two (2) percent in the case of a corporation]; one-half (0.5) percent for the portion of a corporate overpayment exceeding $10,000; three (3) percent for underpayments; and [...]
Many people who have Facebook accounts can affirm that there have been a number of memes, jokes, and stories posted that highlight the good, the bad, and the ugly of 2020 thus far. We are currently in a pandemic with COVID-19 that has killed over 100,000 people and still claiming lives. Some people believe it’s [...]