- Receiving Tips Can Be Taxing
- If you work in an occupation where tips are part of your total compensation, you need to be aware of several facts relating to your federal income taxes:
- Plan for the Potential IRA-to-Charity Provision Extension
- If you are 70.5 or over, have not taken all or any of your 2015 required minimum distribution (RMD) from your IRA, and plan to but have not yet made a significant charitable contribution, here is a tip that could save some tax dollars.
- Tips To Reduce Payroll Stress
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When you hire your first employee, you create an entire new task of complying with employment and labor laws and issuing a payroll. Payroll taxes create more administrative burden for small businesses than any other tax, according to the 2015 Small Business Taxation Survey from the National Business Association.
- Beware of Draconian Penalties for Health Reimbursement Plans
- Beginning in 2015, large employers (those with 100 or more full-time equivalent employees) must begin offering health insurance coverage to their employees. Then, in 2016, employers with 50 or more equivalent full-time employees must do the same or face penalties, called the “large employer health coverage excise tax.”
- Now That Same-Sex Marriage Is Legal In All States, What Are The Tax Implications?
- On June 26, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution requires all states to license marriages between two people of the same sex and to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. This comes approximately two years after the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) enacted by Congress and signed by then President Bill Clinton. DOMA defined marriage as "legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife."
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