It’s that time of year when your mailbox is full of holiday greetings and heartfelt wishes as well as year-end tax planning tips.

Forms for various tax situations

While the CARES Act provides for the exclusion of any loan forgiveness amount from gross income, it fails to address the treatment of the expenses funded by those proceeds.

With many workers still remote and gathering restrictions increasing as infection rates rise, 2020 is absolutely the year to re-imagine the company holiday party.

Achieving and maintaining profitability for your practice is essential and having the capability to track key metrics that measure productivity is core to being successful.

In the COVID-19-ravaged economy, debts can pile up beyond a borrower's ability to repay. Lenders sometimes may be willing to forgive (or cancel) debts that are owed by certain borrowers.

No matter what any of us have tried to accomplish in 2020, it certainly has been harder to achieve. That is the case for not-for-profit organizations, which depend on charitable giving to support their mission.

In anticipation of disruptions resulting from the Covid-19 Pandemic (Covid-19), on June 3, 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) granted a one-year effective date delay for certain entities implementing the new lease accounting standard (Topic 842). 

Starting January 1, 2021 nearly all New York employers must offer paid sick leave to their employee under the recently enacted New York Labor Law. 

Many businesses have suffered financial losses due to the COVID-19 crisis. Some may even be on the verge of bankruptcy or otherwise looking for an exit strategy.

Business owners may often experience the “pit in their stomach” feeling when they assess the financial stability of their organizations.

Recently the SBA has updated its web page to reorganize their PPP Forgiveness FAQ’s section so that it is broken down into sections listed below

On August 29, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released Notice 2020-65 in response to President Trump’s executive order allowing employers to defer the employee share of Social Security tax (6.2%) withheld from September 1 through December 31, 2010. 

In prior blog posts, we have discussed the Benefits of Outsourcing, the Economics of Outsourcing, and Metrics that Matter. In and through these blogs, we have articulated a rationale for utilizing outsourcing – specifically accounting and finance – within an organization.

The economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis will cause many rental real estate properties to run up tax losses in 2020 — and possibly beyond. Here's a summary of important federal income tax rules for such losses.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused difficulties for millions of businesses — from family-owned restaurants and niche manufacturers to multinational airlines and oil companies.