Often times, clients will scan over important documents and email them to use.
While this approach works well with a good scanner, some people do not have a scanner at their house.
The good news is, you can use your cell phone to scan documents.
For several years, Zinner & Co. employees have used the CamScanner-PDF Scanner App to convert important documents into PDFs.
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Topics:
Taxes - Planning, Rules and Returns
Ohioans should be on the lookout for signs of identity theft as they begin to receive their tax documents in the mail.
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Topics:
identity theft,
Taxes - Planning, Rules and Returns,
Taxes - Individual,
ODJFS,
Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services
The second round of Paycheck Protection Program funding has been open for two weeks and it appears funds are going to the intended recipients.
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Topics:
SBA,
Paycheck Protection Program,
ppp
The Employee Retention Credit is part of the reconstituted Paycheck Protection Program and is designed to help businesses who have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic retain their employees.
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Topics:
U.S. Small Business Administration,
SBA,
Paycheck Protection Program,
ppp
Many businesses who received Ohio Bureau of Worker Compensation rebate or dividend checks during 2020 recently received a letter from the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation requesting that they provide the BWC a completed Form W-9 to provide the information needed to complete the IRS tax statement Form 1099-G, which reports taxable Government Payments. This action also indicates that these rebate payments could potentially be subject to both Ohio state income tax and Commercial Activity Tax.
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Topics:
Bureau of Worker's Compensation,
income tax,
ohio,
Department of Job and Family Services,
Unemployment Benefits
The PATH Act accelerated the due date for filing Form 1099 that includes nonemployee compensation (NEC) from February 28 to January 31 and eliminated the automatic 30-day extension for forms that include NEC. Starting with tax year 2020, taxpayers should use Form 1099-NEC to report nonemployee compensation.
Form 1099-NEC replaces the use of box 7 on Form 1099-MISC from previous years. Other uses of 1099-MISC have not changed and will continue to be used for common payments such as rent and payments to an attorney.
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Topics:
Taxes - Planning, Rules and Returns,
Taxes - Individual,
tax,
taxes,
income tax,
tax avoidance
The IRS has released the retirement contribution limits for the 2021 tax year. The new limits are adjusted based on increases in the cost of living.
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Topics:
Taxes - Individual,
Retirement Planning & IRAs,
IRS
Just over $1.3 billion in Ohio Bureau of Worker Compensation rebates will be mailed out in late October.
The news comes as many businesses are struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and the related shutdown issued by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine earlier this year.
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Topics:
Bureau of Worker's Compensation,
The CARES Act
On Aug. 8, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on deferring payroll tax obligations in light of the ongoing COVID-19 Disaster, which directed the Treasury Department to suspend collection of the employee portion of Social Security taxes from Sept. 1 through the end of 2020.
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Topics:
Taxes - Corporate & Business,
Taxes - Planning, Rules and Returns,
deductions,
taxes,
IRS,
Coronavirus,
COVID-19
Over the past few weeks, we have received dozens of calls from clients, who have received tax notices from both the Internal Revenue Service and the State of Ohio.
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Topics:
Taxes - Corporate & Business,
Taxes - Planning, Rules and Returns,
tax,
taxes,
IRS