tax season

why a virtual family office? why now?

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diagramhow complex is your client’s financial security?

by anthony glomski

uberwealthy families like the vanderbilts, morgans and rockefellers realized several centuries ago that managing all of their vast wealth and resources was extremely difficult. sure, they had scores of advisors working exclusively for their families. still, when each of those advisors was toiling away in their silo, there was no coordination of their efforts and lots of waste and inefficiency.

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so, they established formal office headquarters where all financial experts working on their behalf could meet in one place to make it easier to oversee and coordinate everything important to the extended family – their taxes, asset protection, wealth transfer, and their legacy planning, etc.

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should the irs create a free file app of its own?

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three ways to fix the program.

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here’s something weird: the irs offers the vast majority of taxpayers the option to use the free file program to prepare returns.

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it costs taxpayers nothing. yet only three percent use it. can it be fixed? should it? congress is weighing in.

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your tax season success plan starts here, now

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hayden

now that everyone has (hopefully) had time to recover, there are four important steps to take to help next tax season go as smooth as possible

by christopher hayden
managing partner, hayden nelson & yoder

christopher hayden, cpa, cma, cgma is the managing partner of hayden nelson & yoder, a cpa firm based in pennsylvania, at hnycpas.com.

to avoid sugar-coating it, tax season is stressful. long work hours, back-and-forth with clients and mountains of documents can keep accounting professionals in the office for 20 or more additional hours each week. and this tax season felt extra-stressful with all the tax law changes, not to mention explaining to clients who had huge capital gains why they owed taxes.

but once the busy tax season is over, it’s time to review processes and take action to help the remainder of the year go smoothly.

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before that, allow a few weeks to:

  • rest
  • relax
  • recover

make sure to give team members a pat on the back, especially if it’s their first time going through the madness of tax season or they went above and beyond this year.

however, once everyone has recovered enough, it’s time to go through the following steps: read more →

irs audit rates are dropping, and big earners couldn’t be happier

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audit rates by total positive income: although audit rates are declining more rapidly for higher-income taxpayers, the audit rate for lower-income taxpayers claiming the earned income tax credit is running higher than average. the reason: irs says it doesn’t have the highly-trained staff needed for high-income audits. eitc audits are easier. shown: 2019 tax year.

for the wealthy, the irs says it’s out-gunned.

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the percentage of taxpayers audited by the irs has been in precipitous decline since 2010, with the steepest decline in – surprise, surprise! – the highest income bracket, according to a new study.

hoisted from comments: “it is not the auditors who are to blame. it is the irs processes that the auditors are following.”

the odds of a taxpayer being audited are astonishingly low, an average of just 0.25% in 2019, way down from 0.9% in 2010.

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audit rates for brackets between $25,000 and $500,000 are well below average, just 0.17%.
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six more ways to fix the irs

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they’ll take some time, but not much money or technowizardry.

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when national tax advocate erin m. collins sat down before the house subcommittee on government operations this april for hearings titled “irs: is it ready?” she spoke truth to power.

she told power that the irs is truly in big trouble.

  • its backlog of unprocessed returns and unanswered mail is unprecedented in the history of the united states.
  • last year its agents answered only 11% of incoming phone calls.
  • its “where’s my refund?” and “where’s my amended return?” online tools often failed to answer either question.

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she also told power an embarrassing truth: there are solutions. they just have to be enacted.

but there’s one other truth: the solutions cost money.
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