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Recently married, or know someone who was recently married? This article points out some things individuals should do tax-wise after getting married. Read the article here.

The IRS has had significant backlog for quite a while. Recently, the IRS released information on the status of tax return processing (including as of May 6, 2022, it still had 9.8 million unprocessed individual income tax returns).  Read more in this article here. The IRS also provided additional information here.

To enhance security, our portal vendor, Thomson Reuters, now requires Multifactor Authentication (MFA) for all of our clients to log in to their portal. To do this, you will need to install the Thomson Reuters Authenticator mobile app on your phone from the Google Play Store (Android) or App Store (iPhone). Below are instructions and

Paul Neiffer from Farm CPA Today had an interesting analysis of the 2021 inflation numbers. Read his analysis here.

Ohio has a new credit for those who choose home education for their children. Beginning on 2021 Ohio tax returns, taxpayers who choose home education may deduct up to $250 of education expenses for home instruction of their children. According to the Ohio Revised Code: “Education expenses” means expenses or fees for any of the

The sales tax rate for Paulding, Ohio increased back to 7.25% as of January 1, 2022 (after decreasing to 6.75% as of October 1, 2021). For our clients who collect Paulding sales tax, you’ll want to update your systems to reflect this change. You can read more about this change here:  

The IRS is planning to send out letters for recipients of Advance Child Tax Credit (CTC) and the third round of Economic Impact Payments (EIP). It is important for you to get these letters to us when you receive them so that we can accurately prepare your 2021 tax return. We need you to save them

There are a few payroll related items that we wanted to share with our clients. For those of you who have employees on payroll:  For Ohio businesses, employers with 10 or more W-2s must be uploaded the W2s to the Ohio Business Gateway (OBG).  Under 10, paper W-2s can be mailed or can be uploaded to

We recently completed our 2021 Tax Planning newsletter, and we would like to share it with you. To read the Newsletter, click the link below.

Succession planning is important for businesses, including for family farms. We recently received an email from another CPA firm with some tips for successful succession planning. You can read these tips here.