How Your Home Affects Your Taxes: Energy Credits

Just a few years ago, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 greatly changed existing tax laws that affect homeowners. How your personal tax bill has been affected by the changes in the law depends on your income, where you live, how much you spent (or plan to spend) on a home, and…

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IRS Clean Vehicle Tax Credit FAQs

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has altered the requirements for the clean vehicle tax credit, particularly for electric vehicles, including fuel cell vehicles. The credit is available for eligible commercial clean vehicles in addition to vehicles that were previously owned. So, what is the clean vehicle tax credit? For starters, the tax credit can…

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Did You Know? R&A Offers Talent Acquisition Services – Exclusively for Our Clients

Whether you want to hire a top-level executive or professional staff, R&A is able to handle all aspects of the hiring process for you. We offer a variety of talent acquisition services which can be tailored to your needs. Consultation on best hiring and interview practices Planning meeting with stakeholders to discuss hiring goals and…

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Billing Fraud Schemes Lessons Learned

Many small business owners hire friends and family or have employees who have been with them for years. They may also have vendors they have become close with and do business with regularly. It is easy for small business owners to become lax in their oversight as they trust their employees and other close business…

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IRS Offers More Time to Make Portability Election

Portability is often an effective, go-to estate planning strategy that could make a considerable difference for taxes owed on larger estates, especially with today’s generous exemption amounts. In a recent ruling, the IRS took steps to make filing for portability even easier. More Time to Make the Election Revenue Procedure 2022-32 now grants a surviving…

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Intro to the Accounts Payable Process

The term “accounts payable” encompasses almost all the non-payroll payments a business makes. It’s an integral part of your company’s financial statements. If you fail to track billing properly, the ramifications can be costly; compromised vendor relationships can lead to production and supply problems, creating cascading problems. It’s important to get it right. The accounts…

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What To Know About the New Lease Accounting Standard

Every day that passes marks less time for private companies to get ready for ASC 842, the new lease accounting standard. The standard applies to any company preparing financial statements under generally accepted accounting principles. Private companies will have to comply with this standard in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, and interim periods…

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What Not-For-Profits Need to Know About Form 990

Purpose of Form 990 Nearly all the approximately 1.74 million organizations recognized as tax exempt by the IRS must file Form 990 or another form in the same series annually. Churches are not required to file any of the forms in the IRS 990 series. The Form 990 series is intended to make a not-for-profit organization’s…

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Did You Know? R&A Offers Business Valuation Services

You want to know the value of your business. R&A can help you with that. Many business owners are faced at some point with the question “What is my company worth?” This question can arise for many reasons including a potential sale of the company, the buyout of a retiring shareholder, shareholder litigation, a divorce, management…

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Did You Know? R&A Offers Outsourced Accounting, Payroll, and Advisory Services

You want to grow your business. R&A can help you do that. Many small- to mid-size businesses are outsourcing non-core functions, including accounting and payroll. Those services can include: general ledger management, payroll, virtual CFO services, cash flow management, AP, AR, transaction processing, and controllership. The benefits of outsourcing some or all these services can be substantial.…

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