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You might find yourself overwhelmed by the complexities of financial and accounting terms, often leaving you with little time to dedicate to learning about these topics. Audits can occur inconveniently, adding stress and pressure to your busy schedule.  In this episode, I explore the contrast between physically demanding work and administrative tasks, acknowledging the necessity of handling financial reports and organizing insurance despite personal dislikes. The challenges of completing an audit provide insights into overcoming mental and emotional blocks to think positively and recognize the potential benefits. I explore the fears and anxieties associated with audits and the importance of an insurance company providing support and guidance during these processes.   “When these notices come in, get them handled immediately.”           -Keith Kalfas   Today's Topic: 00:40 - Free sign-up, Industry Deep Dive: Mastering Profitability in Lawn Care. Free virtual event. Register at https://www.keithkalfas.com/events. 00:12 - How do you handle your business's administrative tasks and financial responsibilities? Do you enjoy these tasks, or do you find them overwhelming? 03:34 - What happens if you have an emotional response to tax audits? How did you handle it, and what was your experience? 7:22 -  How do you ensure that your business complies with all the requirements and regulations, especially regarding payroll and employee documentation? If you can't handle these situations alone, get a bookkeeper from your blue skies accounting or find your local accountant.   Key Takeaways: Establish administrative processes: Setting up administrative functions is crucial to handle financial matters and policies effectively. This ensures that you're prepared when audits roll around. Annual audits are required: Annual audits are often mandatory for general liability and workers comp insurance. It is important to know this requirement and gather the necessary documentation. Understand insurance company objectives: Insurance companies aim to assess exposure risk and liabilities to protect their interests. It's essential to keep this in mind when navigating through audits and responding to notices.   Connect with Keith Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keithkalfas/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelandscapingemployeetrap Website: https://www.keithkalfas.com/resources Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@keith-kalfas   Resources/People Mentioned: Mastering Profitability in Lawn Care. Free virtual event. Register at https://www.keithkalfas.com/events.    

The Form 1040NR, U.S. Nonresident Alien Income Tax Return, and its shorter version Form 1040NR-EZ, U.S. Income Tax Return for Certain Nonresident Aliens With No Dependents, are used by nonresident aliens who have U.S. source income and therefore have to file a U.S. tax return. Joint returns are not permitted, so that husband and wife must each file a separate return. The Form 1040NR-EZ can be used under conditions similar to those for the 1040EZ form. The Form 1040X, Amended U.S. Individual Tax Return, is used to make corrections to Form 1040, Form 1040A, and Form 1040EZ tax returns that have been previously filed. Generally for a tax refund, this form must be filed within 3 years after the date that the original version was filed, or within 2 years after the date that the tax was paid, whichever is later. Forms 1040X are processed manually and therefore take longer than regular returns. For years prior to 2010, Form 1040X had three columns: for the amounts from the original version, for the net increase or decrease for each line being changed, and for the corrected amounts. For 2010, the form was condensed with a single column for the corrected amounts. Due to confusion amongst taxpayers on how to complete the single-column form, the IRS revised the Form 1040X again for 2011 by returning to the original three-column format. Self-employed individuals and others who do not have enough income taxes withheld, might need to file Form 1040-ES, Estimated Tax for Individuals, each quarter to make estimated installments of annual tax liability (pay-as-you-go tax). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/law-school/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/law-school/support

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax forms are forms used for taxpayers and tax-exempt organizations to report financial information to the Internal Revenue Service of the United States. They are used to report income, calculate taxes to be paid to the federal government, and disclose other information as required by the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). There are over 800 various forms and schedules. Other tax forms in the United States are filed with state and local governments. Individual forms. 1040. As of the 2018 tax year, Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, is the only form used for personal (individual) federal income tax returns filed with the IRS. In prior years, it had been one of three forms (1040 , 1040A and 1040EZ - see below for explanations of each) used for such returns. The first Form 1040 was published for use for the tax years 1913, 1914, and 1915. For 1916, Form 1040 was converted to an annual form (for example, updated each year with the new tax year printed on the form). Initially, the IRS mailed tax booklets (Form 1040, instructions, and most common attachments) to all households. As alternative delivery methods (CPA/Attorneys, internet forms) increased in popularity, the IRS sent fewer packets via mail. In 2009 this practice was discontinued. Income tax returns for individual calendar year taxpayers are due by April 15 of the next year, except when April 15 falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday. In those circumstances, the returns are due on the next business day. An automatic extension until Oct. 15 to file Form 1040 can be obtained by filing Form 4868. Form 1040 is two abbreviated pages, not including attachments. Prior to the 2018 tax year, it had been two full pages, again not counting attachments, but following the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the IRS dramatically shortened both pages. The current first page collects information about the taxpayer(s) and any dependents, and includes the signature line. The current second page includes information on income items and adjustments to income, and additionally calculates the allowable deductions and credits, tax due given the income figure, and applies funds already withheld from wages or estimated payments made towards the tax liability. Prior to 2018, information on income items and adjustments to income had been entered on the first page. The Presidential election campaign fund checkoff, which allows taxpayers to designate that the federal government give $3 of the tax it receives to the Presidential election campaign fund, is near the top of the first page on both pre- and post-2018 versions of Form 1040. Form 1040 has 20 attachments (up from 14 before 2018), called "schedules", which may need to be filed depending on the taxpayer: --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/law-school/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/law-school/support

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1085/29 We all want our children to be pure and upright in their walk with Christ, and that certainly includes how they manage money. Today on MoneyWise, we'll discuss several ways you can help them do that! After sharing the Gospel with your children, one of the most valuable gifts you can give them is teaching them God's financial principles. Children need to learn that you work hard for the money that supports the family, that you're not an ATM machine with unlimited funds. They need to work as well to receive material rewards and the satisfaction that comes with doing a job well. They need to learn how to budget and spend carefully because there's never enough money to do or buy everything we want. They need to learn how to save, not just for rewards, but to cover unexpected expenses. And most importantly, they need to learn how to give, to be generous to God's Kingdom. A recent article from the secular financial websiteHumble Dollarcaught my eye because it lists several strategies for teaching wise money management to children. SHARE THE BIG PICTURE WITH YOUR KIDS Share many of your expenses with your kids to help them get an idea of how expensive things are and what it takes to provide. Show them your mortgage and car payments and your weekly grocery costs. You might also show them your retirement account statement. That can give them a sense of how important it is to save for the future and how much time and effort it takes to build up a nest egg. MANAGING CREDIT Managing credit wisely is another extremely valuable lesson for older children. When they head off to college, they'll be inundated with credit card offers. Far too often, they fall victim to this and run up consumer debt on top of any loans taken out for education. Teach them about creditbeforethey reach college age. You could make them authorized users on your credit card, but a better way might be to open asecured credit cardaccount for your teen. PLANNING AND ALLOCATING MONEY A three-jar system is a time-tested tool. That's one jar for saving, one for spending, and one for giving. But you can take that a step further. Have your children put some of their own money in the collection plate each Sunday. The earlier you teach them to be generous to their church, the better! TAXES Another valuable lesson for kids is that they'll have to pay taxes, maybe sooner than later. If your teen has a job, the employer may withhold taxes. That means the child will have to file a return even though they may not have to pay taxes. You would probably use the 1040EZ form, but filling it out with your child would be an eye-opening experience. Impress on your child the importance of being scrupulously honest about money owed to the government. Romans 13:6-7 reads, For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. SAVING FOR BIG PURCHASES The last money lesson for your kids involves saving for and buying major purchases. This is a great way to teach budgeting. Help them set up a saving plan where they are at least providing some portion of the money needed for the purchase. The percentage isn't important. The main thing is to have the child participate in the purchase with their own money. The same principle can apply to long term saving. Set up a 529 education savings plan or a Roth IRA for your child and then you can offer to match contributions. This would teach the value of delayed gratification. LISTENER QUESTIONS On today's program, Rob also answers listener questions: ●How should you manage funds in your 401k asyou near retirement age? ●Should you continue paying a mortgage in retirement or sell and rent? ●What are the costs andbenefits of a revocable living trust? ●How do you determine if it's best to refinance your mortgage or pay it off? ● Remember, you can call in to ask your questions most days at (800) 525-7000 or email them toQuestions@MoneyWise.org. Also, visit our website atMoneyWise.orgwhere you can connect with a MoneyWise Coach, join the MoneyWise Community, and even download the free MoneyWise app. Like and Follow us on Facebook atMoneyWise Mediafor videos and the very latest discussion!Remember that it's your prayerful and financial support that keeps MoneyWise on the air. Help us continue this outreach by clicking theDonate tab on our websiteor in our app.

There tends to be a lot of confusion when it comes to income taxes in America. People often mistake their tax bracket as the rate they pay on ALL their income, when instead, income taxes are marginal and progressive, meaning that portions of your income are taxed at different rates that increase as you earn more. In this episode, Zach Roberts of Application-Based Learning and I walk through how income tax works and explain what a marginal tax system is. Enjoy! Helpful site to check for your own tax table based on filing status: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/federal-income-tax-brackets To learn more about Zach and Application-Based Learning, check out: -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ApplicationBasedLearning/ -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teacherzach/  Pick up a copy of Chase's book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1082783188 

Date:   June 1, 2019            Attendee and Guest:   Kelly Coughlin, CEO, EveryDay CPA -                                           David Ronquillo - PART 2 Greetings, this is Kelly Coughlin, CPA, and CEO of EveryDay CPA providing tax accounting and revenue solutions to individuals and businesses throughout the U.S. In today’s podcast I am going to interview a former grizzly bear.  Yep!  In a former life, for 30 years, he was a grizzly bear who took the shape of an IRS Officer, seizing assets and pursuing DOJ tax lien foreclosures.  David Ronquillo began his career as a revenue officer in 1980 in Seattle.  He has held positions as Field Collection Group Manager and Senior Collection Policy Analyst.  Currently, he is helping tax professionals increase their knowledge and skills representing clients who are dealing with the IRS Collection operations.  David, I want to welcome you to the EveryDay CPA Podcast and want to first ask you: Kelly:    What about access to retirement assets, is that fairly standard operating procedure - Look for retirement assets - grab these, customer pays, taxpayer pays income tax and a penalty on that or are they exempt from the payment? David:   Levying retirement accounts is one of the last things the IRS wants to do.  They will do it in what they call egregious cases.  That’s where you have a taxpayer that’s just really isn’t cooperating, yet, the internal revenue manual gives some examples of how to identify egregious, you know, one of the other things is that they continue to make contributions to their retirement account.  The big thing about retirement accounts is whether the taxpayer has access to it or not.  So, for example, if the taxpayer can take the money out of the retirement account, IRS can levy, if they can borrow against it, IRS can levy.  But in some situations where the taxpayer cannot do anything with that retirement account, you know, the way the plan is set up they have no access, they basically have no interest in that retirement plan, the IRS cannot get it.  To get a retirement account, an IRA, for example, that has to go up to three levels of management for approval.  There has to be a good reason why the revenue officer wants to levy it.  Only revenue officers can levy retirement accounts.  The automated collections system, the telephone call sites cannot, it has to come up to a revenue officer.  So, they have to justify,  you know, write up a memo justifying why they want to levy the retirement account, they send that up the management chain, up to the area director who, if everybody agrees, they sign off on it and then the levy is served on the retirement plan.  So, it’s a lot of work that the revenue officer has to go through.  It’s a last end of the line procedure to do.  The revenue officer knows that his or her stuff is going to get reviewed and so they have to have a good justification as to why they want to do it.  So, it doesn’t happen very often but, yes, it can happen. And it comes down to the manner of cooperation that the taxpayer gives the revenue officer. But IRS changes its procedures last summer where now a taxpayer can ask the IRS to levy their retirement account. I have had two clients that have one of that done because what it does, it avoids that 10 percent early withdrawal penalty, but it’s convincing the revenue officer to do it.  In these particular cases, the individuals had like $200,000 in their retirement accounts that would fully pay the tax.  So, it’s the matter of going to the revenue officer, basically, make the case for them to do the levy, they run it up the line, levy, the tax gets paid. Kelly:    Why are they so hesitant to want to go after retirement assets, for the obvious reason,   don’t want to put retirement in jeopardy? David:    Yeah, exactly.  The national taxpayer advocate has made a big issue over it, IRS going after retirement accounts, because of it jeopardizing an individual’s retirement, and that’s basically it. So, in fact, she is somewhat opposed to the fact that a taxpayer can go in and ask the IRS for a levy. I have read in the last report, or maybe it’s the last two years report where they were hesitant to do that, but as I said, these two clients that I had, that’s what they wanted, that’s how they sort to rid of their tax liability.  And they had the ability to make a lot of money so they weren’t that concerned about them taking the money.   Kelly:    Okay. Would the IRS force taxpayers to sell their home to recover tax liability? David:    They may, it depends.  The first thing you have to look on, on a resident’s personal residence, how much equity is in there.  For IRS to seize an asset generally what they do is take 60 percent of the fair market value and then they will look at any encumbrance against it.  So, for example, with a home, let’s say, for example, it’s worth $100,000, they would start with 60 percent of that which would be $60,000, then the next question is, how much is the mortgage against it? And if the mortgage is more than 60 percent, in this case, more than $60,000, there is no equity for the IRS to seize.  But if it’s less, let’s say, for example, the mortgage was $20,000, you have got a $40,000 difference there between the $60,000 and the $20,000 then they would look at it.  What they would do is ask the taxpayer to go borrow against the equity, go refinance the house.  And sometimes the revenue officer may ask for the taxpayer to go to attempt to borrow from three different lending sources to get, if they are not approved, at least get the denial letters,  the loan denial letters, okay?  In those instances, if they are not approved for a loan the revenue officer may decide, well, you know, they are not approved, we are not going to take the house and we are just going to let it go, and put them on a payment agreement. In other cases, the revenue officer may decide, no, there is sufficient equity in there so we are going to go after the home. If they decide to pursue seizure of the residence, again, they have to go all the way up to the area director, three levels of management, to get approval, then the case goes over to the Department of Justice, Civil Tax Division, who then takes the case before a federal district court judge to get approval.  So, residential seizures have to be approved by a federal district court judge. Once they get the approval then they can go in and seize the residence and put it up for sale. Kelly:   Is it easier for the IRS to get retirement assets or to get personal residence, generally speaking? David:    Oh, retirement assets.  Kelly:     Are easier? David:    Very easier. They are easier to get. Kelly:     Okay. David:    So, you know, it comes down to how egregious the case is.  How much equity are they looking at? What kind of cooperation are they getting from the taxpayer?   Kelly:    Hey, when you say egregious, are you talking about the liability, size of the liability, or the reason for the liability, you know, civil fraud, that sort of thing? David:    It’s the reason for the liability and the level of cooperation that they are getting from the taxpayer.  You know, we have had taxpayers that they don’t cooperate at all.  They don’t contact, they wouldn’t contact us.  You get in touch with them, they are argumentative, you know, they are not going to do what you ask them to do.  And you could be in a situation where really the only thing you can get is their personal residence, and there is sufficient equity in there that’s going to make a significant dent in how much they owe.  And you look at the background and say, well, how did they run up the tax, you know?  It could be a trust fund recovery penalty where they had a company that they ran up, you know, a million dollars’ worth of employment tax.  So, all of the taxes the IRS has to take into consideration. Kelly:     Okay.   How much of the individual IRS representative personality influences the outcome and direction of a case, or, another way of putting it, if you are not getting along well with this particular agent, can you get a different one assigned to it? David:     The simple answer is no. There would have to be some facts and circumstances on how the interaction is going between the taxpayer and, let’s say, the revenue officer for IRS management to move the case.  Simply disagreeing with the decision that the revenue officer made is not going to move it.  The revenue officer would have to be doing something whether violating policies or procedures or they may be harassing the taxpayer or just really totally out of bounds with the taxpayer.  The taxpayer can go to the group manager and ideally they would have documentation to that effect, you know, maybe quotes of what the revenue officer said to them, maybe what they proposed to the revenue officer to resolve the case, and why the revenue officer is rejecting it.  That type of instance, you know, the manager would consider, maybe we should move the case, but generally, it’s very very, very difficult.  Kelly:     Give us some background on how and where cases are assigned. David:     IRS has different stages.  When a tax return is filed and there is tax due on the case it goes through what’s called the notice stream where, issues, on income tax, for example, four notices will be sent out to taxpayer. Kelly:       What notices, form?  F-O-R-M? David:      No, four, F-O-U-R. Kelly:       Okay.  David:      Four notices, and generally, the notices get a little bit stronger as they go down the line.  They generally come out four to six weeks apart, but I have seen instances where a taxpayer would get a second notice and they never get a third notice and never get a fourth notice. The third notice is called a CP504.  If you look in the upper right-hand corner of the letter it will say CP504, saying intent to levy. And the paragraph will state that the IRS can levy basically on state income tax refund. So, in states that don’t have income tax, really the notice is meaningless, nothing can be done.   So, for example, here in Texas we don’t have state income tax when our client gets that notice we just know, well, we are probably going to get the final notice here, another four to six weeks from now, but basically, we can ignore that notice.  In California, for example, with the state income tax, the IRS can levy the state refund if the taxpayer is due one.  The final method can be what they called LP11, and that comes out of ACS or it can be LP1058 which comes from the revenue officer, it will stay on it in big bold letters, final notice of intent to levy.  The taxpayer has appeal rights with that.  They can file what’s called the collection due process request within 30 days of that notice which will stop all enforcement.  The IRS cannot levy unless it’s a jeopardy situation, and those are rare.   And what happens with filing the notice is, you request a hearing with the appeals division and in the meantime you can get your financial statement together, a case resolution proposed, and you are supposed to be able to work still with the revenue officer but what we have seen is a lot of revenue officers just take that and send that up to appeals.  If there is no response then we are talking about going back to the notice stream where an auditor does not have the case, if the case is large enough in dollar-wise, and generally it’s $100,000 or more, it may be assigned out to the field to a field collection group, to the revenue officers group, okay?  IRS has algorithms where they score cases, and they look at, they classify cases, high risk or medium risk or low risk, and they look at the probability of collecting what is owed. Their algorithms can figure this out. The case is scored, it is sent out to a revenue officer group.  When it gets into a revenue officer group, it goes into what’s called a queue, like a holding file.  So, as revenue officers need cases because their inventory is limited to a certain number of cases that didn’t work, as they need cases the group manager would pull the case out of the queue and assign it to the revenue officer to work.  That’s basically how the cases are assigned from the very beginning where the return is filed all the way where it gets out to the revenue officer.   The permutations in-between, you know, different things can happen, but generally, that’s the way it works.   Kelly:   So, you said they are scored, give me some ideas on the algorithm, if you will, some of the calculus that goes into that? Does it get a high score if there are assets to be recovered and it’s more likely to recover those things   and then those get elevated and accelerated and get the attention and then if it gets  a low score, does it go down the path of, currently not collectible, that kind of thing, is that how that works? David:    Yeah.   But say for example we have an individual that earns $200,000 a year in W-2 income or even 1099 income, the IRS knows about that.  Say, for example, they have mortgage interest on their tax returns, the IRS knows about that.  So, based on what’s on the tax return and other data that the IRS will pull they will look at that type of data and generate a score.  Probably, in this case, a high score because there is a source of income and they have assets.  So, conversely, if you have an individual that, let’s say they make, I don’t know, $30,000 a year, and that’s all they got, they file a 1040EZ, they may owe tax, they may have accumulated tax over a number of years, but if you are choosing between who you are going to go after to collect, you go after the individual that’s making $200,000 a year versus the one making $30,000.  There are instances where they can never get to the person that is making $30,000 a year and they may owe, let’s say they owe $100,000 that has accumulated over a number of years, that case will just simply sit in the general IRS, queue and the statue will continue to run and when the 10 year statute is over the tax is wiped out.  So, there is millions of dollars that are written off every year because the IRS simply can’t get to the case, it’s not scored high enough and they don’t have the resources to get to it. Kelly:    Yeah.  Now, in that $30,000 income situation, the IRS would most likely file a lien just in case there were some assets that appeared that they could then sort of collect from that.  Is that a fair statement? David:     Yeah, generally, I think it is a pretty safe statement. Filing the tax lien is automatically generated by the computer system.  The threshold for filing a tax lien is like $10,000, even you have instances, and I have seen them, where the tax lien is filed but then nothing else happens, there is no further collection action.  There is no levies, there is no other notices but the tax lien sits there.   But, notice that several tax liens collect millions and millions of dollars every year without the IRS doing anything, just file the tax lien and then, you know, a few years later after it’s filed, the taxpayer goes and sells a piece of real estate and, boom, that tax lien is there and the sale isn’t going to go through once that tax lien is dealt with. Kelly:     Dude, Is there a statute of limitation on that lien? David:     No, it’s 10 years, ten years to the date of assessment.          Kelly:      Yeah, right.   Because it appears, as you have seen on TV, a lot of these companies are out there Optima Tax and there are others out there that are really aggressively pursuing this tax resolution business.  I assume that they are targeting these tax liens that are on file.  That’s about the only public record of a federal tax lien, correct? David:      Yes, from what I understand, there are other companies out there that would generate lists you can get of people that have tax lien filed against them that they can break it down by counties, cities, state, you know, and they can break it down by dollar amounts and then these companies buy these lists and then do their marketing to them, you know, direct mailing, postcards, letters, things like that.  How effective that is? I don’t know if it’s that effective or not. We have had clients come in and say, yeah, I got all these letters from all these different tax resolution companies, how did they get my name?  And I said, well, the tax lien filed against you, that’s how they get it.                                                                                                                           

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