Colorado Tax Legislation Update As the Chair of the Government Relations Committee for the Colorado Society of Enrolled Agents outreach to legislators was provided on bills moving through the process this session as they pertained to matters of taxation. With special thanks to Heidi Morgan of Wagner...
IRS proposed Regulations on Basic Exclusion Amount for Estate and Gift Taxes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act increased the basic exclusion amount (BEA) used to compute federal estate and gift taxes. For decedents dying and gifts made after Dec. 31, 2017, and before Jan. 1, 2026, the...
Understanding Schedule M-2 on IRS Forms 1120 and 1120-S is being brought to you from the rear passenger seat of my Toyota Sienna while commuting back to Fort Collins Colorado where my eldest is navigating CSU’s new Agricultural Biology program. To assuage pending separation anxiety, jotting...
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Monday January 24th 2020 was NOT a good first day of tax filing season, the IRS Ogden (Utah) Service Center was Hobbled. Is the stage being set for a proverbial $hit$how over the next several months? Was the IRS campus center housing all those servers hacked? Who...
Estate Tax and Legacy Planning Considerations Now that the Build Back Better (BBB) ‘Framework’ has evidently been shelved there seems to be no better time to contemplate estate tax and legacy plans. Afterall what better time is there? And who wants to give 40% of their...
COLORADO EMPLOYERS FACE PAID SICK LEAVE OBLIGATIONS FOR 2022 If you are a Colorado job creating employer brace yourself for another obligation. Hopefully that first payroll of 2022 has not been run yet! Here’s the detail in 600 words – a 3 minute read and worth every...
Colorado tax law update 2022 starts with the recently enacted 3 new tax laws containing multiple corporate and individual income tax changes. H.B. 21-1311- Income Tax H.B. 21-1327 – State & Local Tax Parity Act for Business H.B. 20-1420 - Adjust Tax Expenditures For State...
Forgiveness of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans Reporting – Rev. Proc 2021-48. Under IRS Rev. Proc. 2021-48, Section 3.01, taxpayers are permitted to treat tax-exempt income resulting from the forgiveness of a PPP loan as received or accrued: as, and to the extent that, eligible expenses...