You might not like paying taxes, but effective tax planning can reduce your tax burden and help you keep more of what’s rightfully yours! Working with a team of experienced CPAs can unlock the potential for significant savings hidden in your current tax strategies.
At LB Carlson, we take care to ensure you are paying the least amount of taxes while still complying with all relevant tax laws.
How we can help
We provide high-value tax consulting, planning, and preparation to thousands of businesses and individuals. Our team of experienced CPAs can oversee and manage all aspects of federal, state, and local tax compliance, planning, and forecasting.
It can be difficult to keep up with all the latest tax regulations and incentives. We will help oversee your compliance and plan ahead by providing expert advice on how these changes may affect you financially in both short-term and long-term goals. When applicable, we will also let you know how any changes will affect your industry.
Our tax professionals provide the following services:
Our tax services are designed to help business owners and individuals make informed decisions that minimize the amount of tax you will pay while retaining the most profit possible. No matter what your next move is, you can rely on our tax experts to help you evaluate all your options so that you fully understand all tax implications before making major decisions.
Today’s constantly changing tax code is complicated enough. Therefore, we keep our approach to client service simple. When you work with us, you can expect:
No matter which tax planning decisions you are currently faced with, it is imperative to have a trusted advisor by your side that knows the ins and outs of state and local laws. Let’s work together and make sure you are taking advantage of every opportunity available to you.
President Trump signed into law billions of dollars in long-awaited COVID-19 and economic relief. The relief package is part of the nearly 5,600-page Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), which also contains numerous other tax, payroll and retirement provisions. Here are some of the provisions most likely to affect individual taxpayers.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA) was signed into law in late December. The sprawling legislation contains billions of dollars in additional stimulus funding in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as numerous unrelated provisions. Let’s take a closer look at the provisions that are most likely to affect your company’s bottom line.
Are you thinking about selling stock shares at a loss to offset gains that you’ve realized during 2020? If so, it’s important not to run afoul of the “wash sale” rule.
Unless Congress acts soon, many small businesses may be hit with an unexpected tax bill related to PPP loans. Join us in supporting the AICPA’s efforts to push for deductibility of PPP-funded expenses! Take action by writing to your Congressman to request PPP expense deductions be allowed. To make it easy, the AICPA has drafted an email that you can use.
On Nov. 18, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service released additional guidance regarding the deductibility of expenses paid using proceeds from a PPP loan. The new guidance states that if a taxpayer received a PPP loan and paid or incurred usually deductible expenses with the loan proceeds, those expenses are not deductible if the taxpayer has a reasonable expectation that they will receive forgiveness. The expenses paid for with PPP loan proceeds are not deductible in the year paid even if forgiveness has not been achieved or applied for by the end of the taxable year. In other words, the expenses are not deductible on taxpayers’ income tax returns that include the covered period. The covered period is either the 8- or 24-week period you elected to spend the loan proceeds.
The subject of payroll has been top-of-mind for business owners this year. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered economic changes that caused considerable fluctuations in the size of many companies’ workforces. Employees have been laid off, furloughed and, in some cases, rehired. There has also been crisis relief for eligible businesses in the form of the Paycheck Protection Program and the payroll tax credit. Payroll recordkeeping was important in the “old normal,” but it’s even more important now as businesses continue to navigate their way through a slowly recovering economy and ongoing public health crisis.
