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IRS Audit Rate Decreases in 2018

Oct 14, 2019

Continuing a downward trend from the prior year, the IRS audited 7% fewer tax returns in 2018 than they audited in 2017. Of the 150 million personal tax returns filed for the 2017 tax year, only 892,000 were audited ? a meager 0.59% of all personal tax returns being...

Interesting Metrics for Personal Tax Returns – 2018 vs 2017

Oct 14, 2019

2018 was the first year that incorporated the majority of the tax law changes resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) enacted just prior to the end of 2017. While many taxpayers were very concerned with the loss of certain tax deductions that had...

Audit 101

Oct 14, 2019

Why Did You Get Audited? The IRS uses random selection as one method to choose which tax returns to audit. They may also flag tax returns because: You?re in a higher income tax bracket You have math errors on your tax return You report no income or not all of your...

New Opportunity to Defer (And Possibly Eliminate) Capital Gains Tax

Oct 14, 2019

One of the most interesting wrinkles of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was the creation of Opportunity Zones. According to the IRS, Opportunity Zones are particular distressed communities throughout the country in need of economic revitalization. Under a nomination process...

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