Running a professional services firm requires a steady hand a keen eye. You have to be able to implement changes on the ground in real-time. read more…
10 Email Marketing Tips for your Non-Profit or Small Business
Approximately 125 billion business-to-business emails are sent every day. Roughly 111 billion personal emails are sent each day. If you want your marketing emails to rise to the top in a sea full of 236 billion daily emails, you need to stand out.
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IRS Issues Inflation-Adjusted Limits for HSA Deductions for 2020
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are a type of medical savings account that allows eligible individuals to make deductible contributions and withdraw tax-free disbursements for the payment of eligible medical expenses. Each year the IRS evaluates the limitation amounts on HSA deductions based for inflation.
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5 Key Reasons Why You Should Take Vacation Time (and Your Employees Should Too)
One of the hardest things about running a small business or not-for-profit is the fact that you’re never really off. Evenings, weekends, nights, and holidays – you’re always either at work, thinking about, or creating plans to improve it.
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Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Proposes $1.5B Rebate for Ohio Employers
The Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has announced a proposal to provide Ohio employers with a $1.5B rebate. This rebate comes as the result of stronger than expected returns on investments.
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7 Steps to Combat Elder Fraud
Every year around this time, the IRS issues a warning about scams that attempt to victimize taxpayers and steal from them. More often than not, the victims of these crimes are senior citizens. The scams have varying levels of sophistication. From simple – such as calling on the phone
and posing as an IRS agent – to sophisticated phishing scams that attempt to get taxpayers to reveal information that can be used to hack key user accounts. read more…
Changes to the Estate and Gift Tax Exemption under TCJA
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) has brought about the largest change to the U.S. tax code in
over 30 years. One of the areas of the code that has been significantly impacted by these sweeping changes deals with estates.
What to Do When a Client Dies
As a trusted advisor, one’s CPA is often one of the first people notified when a client dies. As a CPA, it is critical to know and understand both the legal and moral steps involved in helping a family cope with a death.
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5 Efficiency Tools You Should Evaluate
Do you ever feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day? Do large, important tasks get waylaid by frequent, trivial disruptions? You’re not alone!
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The Pros and Cons of Selling to Employee(s)
If you’re planning on selling your business, one potential market is your current employees. They understand the business and how it runs. They have some sense of the value, or potential value of the business. But before you offer to sell to your employees, 
you should know the pros and cons of taking that route.
Since 1938, Zinner has counseled individuals and businesses from start-up to succession. At Zinner, we strive to ensure we understand your business and recognize threats that could impact your financial situation.
PPP Loan Forgiveness and the Tax Impact on Pass-through Businesses
For many business owners, the Paycheck Protection Program loan journey is not over when they receive acknowledgement of loan forgiveness from their local lender and from the Small Business Administration. From a tax perspective, the map that lays out the tax impact...
Ohio Budget Includes Changes to Municipal Income Tax
On July 1, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed House Bill 110 into law approving the state’s $72 billion two-year budget. The biennial budget provides funding for state operations, overhauls K-12 school funding, provides $250 million in broadband support for underserved...
AICPA Not for Profit Conference Highlights Upcoming Changes
In June, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants held a virtual Not for Profit Conference, which discussed a range of issues including stimulus funding, changes to tax law, cybersecurity and changes to independent auditors report. Stimulus Funding There...
From a Business Perspective – What Has COVID Taught Us?
As we re-open our economy after 16 long months of closure due to the global pandemic, business owners have been forced to pivot in many different areas in order to survive. Looking back at the seemingly split-second decisions many businesses were forced to make, what...
The Biden Administration’s Proposed Tax Law Changes
In early June, the U.S. Treasury Department released its general explanations of proposed changes to the U.S. tax code. Please note, the following items have only been proposed. In order to become law, they must pass through both the U.S. House of Representatives and...
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