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Compensation and Motivation
Compensation is defined in two basic ways.
1. Making up for someone’s loss or damage by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit. Examples include: payment of a workman’s compensation claim, or giving a raise to an employee to offset the negative feelings from being passed over for promotion.
2. Rewarding someone for services such as wages and benefits paid to an employee.
This article primarily addresses the second meaning.
Happy New Year! It’s . . . 1099 Season!!
Our Client Accounting Services group at MichaelSilver is excited to kick off the New Year by taking the first steps into our 2022 tax season as we tackle 1099 preparation!
How to Minimize Your Taxes Using the New State Election for Pass-Through Entity Tax
As we approach the final weeks of the year, there is a new and important tax planning opportunity to consider for your Partnership and/or S-corporation business, the timing, and deductibility of pass-through entity state income tax payments.
November 2021 Power Steering
The House Passes Biden’s Build Back Better Act
On November 19th, the House passed the roughly $2 trillion Build Back Better Act. The bill includes income tax changes, expansion of current tax credits, support for health care, and measures to battle climate change.
2021 Year-End Checklist
As we approach the final weeks of the year, there is still time to minimize your 2021 tax liability and get a jump start on your 2022 tax planning. This year likely brought challenges and disruptions that significantly impacted your personal and financial situation – a continued global pandemic, several significant natural disasters, new tax laws, and political shifts.
2021 Year-End Checklist For Dealers
As another tax year comes to a close, it is time to consider your tax planning opportunities and year-end tasks.
Successful Strategies When Buying a Business
Owning a business and being your own boss can be personally and financially rewarding. Taking a strategic approach to acquiring a business will increase the probability to success.
Business Credit Cards Have Legitimate Uses – Fraud Isn’t Among Them
It seems like more and more forensic accounting cases are focusing on the abuse of business credit cards by all levels of employees. So, what enables these individuals to enrich themselves at will? Oftentimes, it comes down to two preventable factors: deficient internal controls and lax supervision.
Time to Take a Second Look at your Eligibility for the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC)
The Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC), originally passed in the CARES Act of March 2020, encourages businesses and tax-exempt organizations to keep employees on payroll during the pandemic.