R&A CPAs blog

July 2024 Newsletter

Disasters often occur with no warning and can be devastating to any business. Being prepared with emergency preparedness plans is vital.

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How To Handle Intangible Assets – Part II: Business Buyers Beware

If you are currently in the market to acquire a business or may consider such a move later, you will want to carefully consider intangible assets in your business valuation.…

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Do You Have More Than 100 Employees in Your Employee Benefit Plan?

If you have more than 100 employees participating in your employee benefit plan (EBP), you may be required to undergo an EBP audit. For plan years beginning on or after…

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The Importance of Beneficiary Designations

“Carol Page” got a call from the bank-an IRA from her deceased father was found and paperwork needed to be signed. But before the money was made available, a snag…

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Small Business Tax Breaks: Are You Leaving Money on the Table?

When running a small business, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of overseeing operations, managing cash flow, and ensuring customer satisfaction. With so many pressing priorities,…

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June 2024 Newsletter

Taking time to learn about available tax benefits can lead to significant savings and reinvestment opportunities for your business.

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Ransomware is Targeting Small Businesses

During the pandemic, data breaches disproportionately affected smaller companies; they were targeted at twice the rate of larger businesses. Since the pandemic, those same smaller companies have been struggling with…

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The Tax Implications of Independent Contractors

Are your employees really employees, or are they actually independent contractors? It’s not just semantics; the IRS makes a stark distinction. You don’t generally have to withhold or pay any…

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10 Ways Outsourced Accounting Services Can Help Grow Your Business

Successful business owners will tell you that excellent accounting is the secret ingredient to growing their business. Why? Because having access to the right financial information helps drive better business…

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May 2024 Newsletter

Rising property values in Arizona are prompting investors to implement 1031 exchange strategies to mitigate hefty capital gains taxes and reinvest for further growth.

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EV Tax Credits End in September 2025

September 2, 2025

Congress began creating tax incentives for purchasing energy efficient vehicles in 2005, and the Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022 brought major expansion to the electric vehicle (EV) tax credit program. The Trump tax reform bill passed in July 2025 has ended the federal EV credit for any vehicles purchased after September 30, 2025. For…

QuickBooks Desktop Slated to Sunset as Intuit Shifts to the Cloud

September 2, 2025

Like many vendors across the software industry, including Microsoft and Adobe, Intuit is sunsetting its long-running desktop product line in favor of its cloud-based model. QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT), used by small businesses for decades, is being phased out as the company directs customers to QuickBooks Online (QBO). As of September 2024, Intuit stopped selling new…

August 2025 Newsletter

July 31, 2025

In this newsletter we cover employee gift matching programs as a philanthropic strategy, fraud prevention using the “fraud diamond” framework, upcoming expanded income tax disclosure requirements for private entities, and differences between public charities and private foundations. Also features a team spotlight on Lisset Anderson from Client Services.

Meet Nathan Bolt – Senior Manager, Client Accounting Services

July 31, 2025

Nathan is a seasoned Chief Financial Officer (CFO) drawing from over two decades of experience in accounting and finance. He holds a BS in Accounting, is a licensed CPA, and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA). Nathan is also a member of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the Arizona Society of CPAs…

Why 2025 Is Turning Out to Be a Great Year

July 31, 2025

In January, we wondered what the year would bring. Well, now we know what the first half of the year has brought, and it is good news for high-net-worth business owners. On Wall Street, the saying is buy low, sell high. In the world of estate planning, the saying is more like sell high, transfer…

ACC Announces New Policies Aimed at Preventing Business Filing Fraud

July 31, 2025

Most state business filing agencies like the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) are ministerial entities only and have no regulatory or enforcement authority.  In other words, these government entities can make sure any documents you file meet filing requirements, but that’s where their responsibility stops. For example, ACC does not have a requirement to confirm or…

Key Provisions of the New Tax Act

July 31, 2025

  On July 4, 2025, Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. At the center of the bill is the extension of many provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) slated to end at the end of 2025. The OBBBA makes many expiring provisions of TCJA permanent,…

OBBBA – Tax Treatment of R&D Expensing and Bonus Depreciation

July 31, 2025

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) significantly impacts the tax treatment for businesses of research and development (R&D) expense and bonus depreciation. These new provisions offer substantial benefits and  crucial planning opportunities for businesses looking to invest and innovate. Following is a breakdown of the key changes. R&D expensing: Immediate Deductions Restored Internal Revenue…

July 2025 Newsletter

July 15, 2025