FL - Tax rate on commercial rentals reduced from 4.5% to 2% effective june 1, 2024
Effective June 1, 2024, the Florida sales tax rate imposed on the total rent charged for renting, leasing, letting, or […]
Read MoreThe IRS has informed taxpayers who work in restaurants, salons, hotels and similar industries that tips can be taxable income. There are four factors determine whether a payment qualifies as a tip. The customer should make the payment free from compulsion, the customer must have the unrestricted right to determine the amount, the payment should not be the subject of negotiations or dictated by employer policy and generally, the customer should have the right to determine who receives the payment.
Further, employees must keep a daily record of the cash tips they receive. They can use Form 4070A, Employee’s Daily Record of Tips, to keep daily track of the cash tips they receive. To report tips to employer, there is no required form, but the statement must include employee signature, employee’s name, address and social security number, employer’s name and address, month or period the report covers and the total of tips received during the month or period.
Additionally, tips reported to the employer by the employee should be included on the employee’s Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, for reporting on an individual tax return. Finally, employers with tipped employees are required to keep employee tip reports, withhold taxes, pay the employer share of Social Security and Medicare taxes, report this information to the IRS on Form 941, Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Return and deposit the withheld taxes in accordance with federal tax deposit requirements.
Effective June 1, 2024, the Florida sales tax rate imposed on the total rent charged for renting, leasing, letting, or […]
Read MoreFlorida has released the severance tax rates on the production of heavy minerals and other solid minerals for 2024. From […]
Read MoreThe IRS has provided a waiver for any individual who failed to meet the foreign earned income or deduction eligibility requirements of Code Sec. 911(d)(1) because adverse conditions in a foreign country […]
Read MoreThe IRS announced that compliance efforts around erroneous Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims have topped more than $1 billion within six months. “We are encouraged by the results so far of […]
Read MoreThe IRS has announced the federal income tax treatment of certain lead service line replacement programs for residential property owners. It is required by the federal and many […]
Read MoreThe IRS has released guidance to help taxpayers understand what to do with Form 1099-K. Responding to feedback from taxpayers, tax professionals and payment processors, […]
Read MoreThe Treasury Department‘s Office of Payment Integrity (OPI) deployed Artificial Intelligence(AI)-based fraud detection at the onset of Fiscal Year 2023, resulting in the recovery of over $375 million. […]
Read MoreThe Florida Senate approved a tax bill that changes the corporate income tax IRC conformity tie-in date. H.B. 7073, as […]
Read MoreFlorida House of Representatives passed a bill with a provision that modifies the IRC conformity tie-in date for determining corporate […]
Read MoreThe Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued guidance on inflation adjustments to its civil monetary penalties as mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 (the Act), as amended. This rule […]
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