Tax Law

Businesses can be heavily impacted by a wide range of tax laws and policies. This includes the sales tax laws and policies of the states that they operate in. States vary greatly in their sales tax rules. This includes in their rules regarding how their sales tax...

For Ohio business owners, there are a variety of situations that can be very alarming ones. Among these is their company receiving an Audit Commencement Letter. This can mean that the state’s Department of Taxation will be performing a sales tax audit on their...

With tax day just having passed, federal taxes can be fresh on people’s minds. How much federal tax liability do people here in the U.S. generally have? Well, reportedly, in 2016, the national per-person average for federal taxes paid was $8,943. This includes income,...

It may seem hard to believe, but the deadline for Tax Day 2017 is now just over a week away, falling, oddly enough, on Tuesday, April 18 owing to an especially peculiar calendar year that sees April 15 fall on a Saturday and the following Monday fall on a designated...

Sometimes an audit happens by chance, but in many other cases, it happens because of some sort of discrepancy that the IRS discovers in your tax filing. It can be extremely stressful to be audited when you have put many hours into sorting all your paperwork and...

On January 18, the U.S. Treasury Department proposed regulations pertaining to tax audits for large partnerships. These rules also apply to limited liability companies and other business entities treated as partnerships for federal tax purposes. Although the rules...

Given that Tax Day 2017 is still roughly six weeks away, it would not come as anything of a surprise to learn that there are still many people who have yet to complete their federal income tax returns. For some, this delay may have to do with their accountant’s busy...

One of the most important elements of tax planning and preparation is recordkeeping. While this may seem the epitome of the routine and mundane, you must realize that it may be one of the most important parts of asserting any claim or defense, should the Internal...

Most businesses do their due diligence in warning employees about sharing confidential information, such as W-2s, with outside sources you don’t recognize. But what if an email appears to have come from inside your organization? Cybercriminals are getting more...

When you are filling out federal and state income tax forms, most likely your primary concern is to avoid an audit. While this is a legitimate concern, as are the myriad complexities of the IRS Tax Code, major errors of that nature are not the most common among...