Phishing Scams: Taxpayers are urged not to "Take The Bait"

"With the approach of the holidays and the 2019 filing season, the Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the nation’s tax industry warned people to be on the lookout following a surge of new, sophisticated email phishing scams."

IRS sees surge in email phishing scams; Summit Partners urge taxpayers: ‘Don’t Take the...

Valuing Your Employee's Personal Use of Business Auto

Whether your company supplies business autos to employees primarily as "perks" or as necessary tools to help them get their work done, their personal use of the auto has tax implications for them and for you. That's because an employee's personal use of a company auto generally must be treated as non-cash taxable fringe benefit that is also subject to social security taxes. Fortunately, the...

10 Basic Rules of Every Estate Plan

Most people still believe that estate planning is all about tax planning. Since the tax law now exempts most estates, they think they don’t really need an estate plan. But they do, and many people need an estate plan more than ever.

That’s a mistake. An estate plan involves a lot more than tax planning, and for most people the non-tax elements of a plan are more important...