Setting Intentions for 2025: How to Achieve Meaningful Goals This Year

Setting Intentions for 2025: How to Achieve Meaningful Goals This Year

As we enter the new year, many of us make resolutions. Maybe you promised yourself you’d exercise more, eat healthier, grow your business, or finally get your finances in order. But the reality is by mid-February, nearly 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail. That’s...
President Biden’s proposed budget highlights his tax agenda

President Biden’s proposed budget highlights his tax agenda

President Biden has released his proposed budget for the 2025 fiscal year, including numerous tax provisions affecting both businesses and individual taxpayers. While most of these provisions have little chance of coming to fruition while the U.S. House of...
IRS guidance coming regarding the IRA’s Clean Vehicle Credit

IRS guidance coming regarding the IRA’s Clean Vehicle Credit

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) extended and expanded the Section 30D Clean Vehicle (CV) Credit, previously known as the Electric Vehicle (EV) Credit. The credit now covers “clean vehicles,” which include plug-in hybrids, hydrogen fuel cell...
U.S. Supreme Court rules against the IRS on critical FBAR issue

U.S. Supreme Court rules against the IRS on critical FBAR issue

The U.S. Supreme Court recently weighed in on an issue regarding a provision of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) that has split two federal courts of appeal. Its 5-4 ruling in Bittner v. U.S. is welcome news for U.S. residents who “non-willfully” violate the...
Reading the tea leaves: Potential tax legislation in the new Congress

Reading the tea leaves: Potential tax legislation in the new Congress

The 2022 mid-term election has shifted the scales in Washington, D.C., with the Democrats no longer controlling both houses of Congress. While it remains to be seen if — and when — any tax-related legislation can muster the requisite bipartisan support, a review of...