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Category Archives: Tax Preparation
And They’re Born Every Day…
Two tales of Bozo tax preparers came out at week’s end, and both come from Denver. First, Kennedy Oduro liked to make sure his customers got refunds. He invented false deductions and credits, and saved his clients $283,000 in 2003 … Continue reading
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Two Days Away
The deadline for filing tax returns on extension is this Wednesday, October 15th. That’s also the deadline for funding your SEP IRAs. If you procrastinate beyond this date you will be hit with the failure to file penalty (if you … Continue reading
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Another Tax Blog
And it’s a good one, too. I don’t know how I’ve missed adding Robert Flach’s The Wandering Tax Pro blog to the blogroll on the right, but that error has been rectified. Robert reports extensively on the tax situation out … Continue reading
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Rhode Island is the 18th
Rhode Island has joined 17 other states including California to mandate that state tax returns prepared by professionals be electronically filed. The mandate goes into effect in January. Under Rhode Island’s new law individual taxpayers can opt-out of e-filing. Additionally, … Continue reading
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K-1 Extension Deadline Changes in 2009
One of the more vexing problem tax professionals have is preparing returns for individuals who have a partnership interest where the partnership extends the deadline for filing their K-1s. The extension currently is six months, so a partnership can legally … Continue reading
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Bozo Tax Tip #1: Foreign Trusts
By far the worst tax schemes in the view of the IRS are offshore (foreign) trusts. In fact, trusts of all sorts—domestic and foreign—are regularly abused. First, not all trusts are bad. Many trusts serve a legitimate purpose, such as … Continue reading
Bozo Tax Tip #2: 300 Million Witnesses Can’t Be Right
The IRS loves Bozo tax celebrities. They get a chance to show you and I that Bozo celebrities must pay their taxes. And if they go to court and win, it’s guaranteed that there will be plenty of publicity. So … Continue reading
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Bozo Tax Tip #3: Call Your Accountant on the 15th
Let’s assume you’ve procrastinated on your taxes, and you (all of a sudden) notice it’s April 15th. You’ll just call your accountant, and you’re sure he’ll drop everything for you. No chance. If you called me today, and I haven’t … Continue reading
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Bozo Tax Tip #4: Foreign Bank Accounts
Let’s assume your business has been successful. Very successful. What should you do with all that money, especially if you’d prefer to not send a lot of it to Uncle Sam? Well, you can take the Bozo method of hiding … Continue reading
Bozo Tax Tip #5: The $0.41 Solution
With Tax Day fast approaching it’s time to look into the Bozo method of courting disaster. And it doesn’t, on the surface, seem to be a Bozo method. After all, this organization has the motto, Neither rain nor snow nor … Continue reading