Estate Planning Information
Estate Planning requires an understanding of the various types of retirement vehicles, which are founded on the concept of tax deferred income growth...
View ArticleChoosing a Form of Business Entity for Your Business
In the United States, there are six legal and tax formats for doing business: 1) Sole Proprietorships 2) General Partnerships 3) Limited Partnerships 4) Limited Liability Partnerships 5) Corporations...
View ArticleOverview of Asset Protection
For the past several years asset protection has been one of the fastest growing areas of law. It is also one of the most controversial ? the goal of asset protection is to shield assets from the reach...
View ArticleSarbanes-Oxley Overview
Enron, WorldCom and other corporate failures focused public attention on the quality and integrity of disclosures in public companies public disclosures. Congress adopted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of...
View ArticleThe 2 P's of Disaster Planning: When You Can't Prevent, You Must Prepare
Corporations are continually reassessing their incident response preparedness for the purpose of mitigating risks and improving protection of their employees, visitors, customers, assets and...
View ArticleEstate Planning Update - Self Study Workbook
Save time and money by earning your mandatory California CLE inside this workbook!In this workbook you will find four need-to-know articles highlighting important issues that impact your industry and...
View ArticleRecords Retention and The Litigation Hold
The goals of a records retention policy are to address the management, storage and destruction of company documents. Documents include paper (including communications, contracts, maps, etc) as well as...
View ArticleIRS Form 1099 Reporting
Form 1099 is a series of forms used in the United States income tax system by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to prepare and file an information return under Internal Revenue Code Section (IRC)...
View ArticleTax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
The EGTRRA phased-out the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes so that they were fully repealed in 2010, and lowered the gift tax rate to 35 percent and increased the gift tax exemption to $1...
View ArticleQuickBooks 2011 What's New and Improved
A brief review of the new and improved features and tools available forQuickBooks Pro 2011, QuickBooks Premier 2011,QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 11.0
View ArticleEligibility Requirements of S Corporations
To elect and continue S corporation status the corporation and its shareholders must meet a number of basic requirements. Under IRC Section 1361, only a "small business corporation" can operate as an S...
View ArticleMaking the most of the law firm mixer
Many accounting firms regularly network with law firms and host or attend events with a group of attorneys for the purpose of growing each firm's or individual's respective practice. There typically is...
View ArticleOverview of S Corporation Taxation
By some accounts, the advent of S corporations in the late 1950s was the most notable revolution in American tax policy since the Revolution. And it's easy to see why: S corporation owners can protect...
View ArticleMethods of Business Valuation
Whether they own a business or are thinking about buying one, most people need -- at least at some point -- to know how much their businesses are worth. In fact, this service is probably more...
View ArticleIRS Form 1099 Reporting
Form 1099 is a series of forms used in the United States income tax system by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to prepare and file an information return under Internal Revenue Code Section (IRC) 6041
View ArticleTax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
The EGTRRA phased-out the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes so that they were fully repealed in 2010, and lowered the gift tax rate to 35 percent and increased the gift tax exemption to $1...
View ArticleQuickBooks2011 What's New and Improved
A brief review of the new and improved features and tools available forQuickBooks Pro 2011, QuickBooks Premier 2011, QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 11.0
View ArticleEligibility Requirements of S Corporations
To elect and continue S corporation status the corporation and its shareholders must meet a number of basic requirements. Under IRC Section 1361, only a "small business corporation" can operate as an S...
View ArticleTax Shelter Penalty Cases Hurt Thousands of Small Business Owners
Insurance agents and others sell 412i, 419, captive insurance and section 79 scams to unsuspecting business owners. The IRS considers many of these plans abusive tax shelters, listed transactions,...
View ArticleIRS 20 Factor Test - Independent Contractor or Employee?
The IRS test often is termed the “right-to-control test” because each factor is designed to evaluate who controls how work is performed. Under IRS rules and common-law doctrine, independent contractors...
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