- Video Tips: Here's Why You Should Have Your Tax Refund Direct Deposited
- The IRS encourages taxpayers to file when they are ready and choose direct deposit to receive any refund they may be owed.
- Tax Benefits for Members of the Clergy
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Members of the clergy are taxed on not just their salary but on other fees and contributions that they receive in exchange for performing services such as marriages, baptisms, funerals, and masses. As a result, clerics will generally report their income in two ways:
- Are You Caring for a Disabled Family Member? Read This.
- Many taxpayers prefer to care for ill or disabled family members in their homes as opposed to placing them in nursing homes, but doing this can be expensive, time-consuming, and exhausting. The government also recognizes home care as a means of reducing the government’s costs in terms of caring for individuals who otherwise would be institutionalized (because they require the type of care that is normally provided in a hospital, nursing facility, or intermediate care facility).
- Video Tips: Taxpayers Can Expect a Smaller Refund This Tax Season
- Because most of the COVID pandemic-related tax benefits have come to an end, your tax refunds may be smaller this year and substantially smaller for many.
- How Employee Stock Options Are Taxed
- Many companies, as an incentive to employees to help grow the companies’ market value, will offer stock options to key employees. The options give the employee the right to buy up to a specified number of shares of the company’s stock at a future date at a specific price. Generally, options are not immediately vested and must be held for a period of time before they can be exercised. Then, at some later date, and assuming the stock price has appreciated to a value higher than the option price of the stock, the employee can excise the options (buy the shares), paying the lower option price for the stock rather than the current market price. This gives the employee the opportunity to participate in the growth of the company through gains from the sale of the stock without the risk of ownership.
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