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Businesses Beware of Misleading Solicitations
Posted December 1, 2014 by ebd-client & filed under News
The Secretary of State wants businesses to beware of misleading solicitations.
Secretary of State Tre Hargett is warning Tennessee corporations about a potentially misleading solicitation sent from an organization called the “Tennessee Council for Corporations.” The council, which is not affiliated in any way with the Secretary of State’s office, states in its solicitation that it will prepare annual “corporate consent records” for a corporation for a $125 fee. Corporate consent records are internal corporate documents that a corporation may choose to prepare, but are not required to be filed with the Secretary of State’s office. However, the solicitation is similar in appearance to the notice that the Secretary of State’s office distributes to businesses informing them of their obligation to file annual reports.
Because this solicitation appears similar to an official government notice, it has the potential to mislead Tennessee corporations. Similar misleading correspondence has been sent out by the organizations “Corporate Records Service” and “Annual Business Services,” neither of which are affiliated with governmental entities.
Secretary Hargett said: “I encourage Tennessee businesses to be cautious when providing private and confidential information, including credit card information, because there are several organizations sending these misleading letters.”
Businesses can call the Secretary of State’s Business Services Division at (615) 741-2286 to help determine the source of correspondence they may receive. The Secretary of State’s website also has a user-friendly online annual report filing system for businesses, which can be accessed at https://tnbear.tn.gov/Ecommerce/AnnualReportInstr.aspx.
2014 INFLATION ADJUSTED TAX BENEFITS
Posted November 26, 2013 by ebd-client & filed under News
The IRS announced inflation adjustments for 2014. These inflation adjustments are for more than 40 tax provisions. Some of the provisions include the following:
The standard deduction rises to $6,200 for singles and married persons filing separate, $12,400 for married filing jointly and $9,100 for heads of households, for tax year 2013.
Tax rate of 39.6% affects singles with income exceeding $406,750 and $457,600 for married filing jointly.
The personal exemption will rise to $3,950. The exemption is subject to a phase-out with adjusted gross incomes of $254,200 for singles and $305,050 for married filing jointly. It will phase-out completely at $376,700 for singles and $427,550 for married filing jointly.
On tax year 2014 returns, the limitation for itemized deductions claimed for individuals begins with incomes of $254,200 or more and $305,050 for married filing jointly.
Information on these and other tax provisions can be found at:
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/In-2014,-Various-Tax-Benefits-Increase-Due-to-Inflation-Adjustments
If you have any questions regarding this information, please contact us here at Edmondson, Betzler & Montgomery, PLLC.
Posted November 14, 2013 by ebd-client & filed under News
Will the credit make a difference for you?
As an example, if you pay $50,000 a year toward workers’ health care premiums — and if you qualify for a 15 percent credit, you save… $7,500. If you save $7,500 a year from tax year 2010 through 2013, that’s total savings of $30,000. If, in 2014, you qualify for a slightly larger credit, say 20 percent, your savings go from $7,500 a year to $10,000 a year.
Now that you know how the credit can make a difference for your business, can you claim it?
To claim it, you must cover at least 50 percent of the cost of single (not family) health care coverage for each of your employees. You must also have fewer than 25 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs). Those employees must have average wages of less than $50,000 per year. This figure will be adjusted for inflation beginning in 2014. You will have to purchase insurance through the SHOP Marketplace to be eligible for the credit for tax years 2014 and beyond.
For more on the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit visit http://www.irs.gov/uac/Small-Business-Health-Care-Tax-Credit-for-Small-Employers.
Federal Tax Regulations, Regulation, §1.263(a)-1T, Internal Revenue Service, Capital Expenditures; in general (Temporary)
Posted November 6, 2013 by ebd-client & filed under News
Temporary Reg. §1.263(a)-1T, below was removed by T.D. 9636, but a taxpayer may choose to apply Temporary Reg. §1.263(a)-1T to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, and before January 1, 2014.
(a) General rule for capital expenditures. – Except as provided in chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code, no deduction is allowed for:
Any amount paid for new buildings or for permanent improvements or betterments made to increase the value of any property or estate; or
Any amount paid in restoring property or in making good the exhaustion thereof for which an allowance is or has been made.
(b) Coordination with section 263A.—Section 263(a) generally requires taxpayers to capitalize an amount paid to acquire, produce, or improve real or personal tangible property. Section 263A generally prescribes the direct and indirect costs that must be capitalized to property produced by the taxpayer and property acquired for resale.
(c) Examples of capital expenditures.—The following amounts paid are examples of capital expenditures:
An amount paid to acquire or produce a unit of real or personal tangible property. (§1.263(a)-2T)
An amount paid to improve a unit of real or personal tangible property. (§1.263(a)-3T)
An amount paid to acquire or create intangibles. (§1.263(a)-4).
An amount paid or incurred to facilitate an acquisition of a trade or business, a change in capital structure of a business entity, and certain other transactions. (§1.263(a)-5).
An amount paid to acquire or create interests in land, such as easements, life estates, mineral interests, timber rights, zoning variances, or other interests in land.
An amount assessed and paid under an agreement between bondholders or shareholders of a corporation to be used in a reorganization of the corporation or voluntary contributions by shareholders to the capital of the corporation for any corporate purpose. (§ 118 and §1.118-1).
An amount paid by a holding company to carry out a guaranty of dividends at a specified rate on the stock of a subsidiary corporation for the purpose of securing new capital for the subsidiary and increasing the value of its stockholdings in the subsidiary. This amount must be added to the cost of the stock in the subsidiary.
Posted by ebd-client & filed under News
The Internal Revenue Service is warning consumers about a sophisticated phone scam targeting taxpayers, throughout the country.
More information is available on the IRS website, irs.gov.
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