Hot Tax Topics for 2021: The Disaster Relief Edition (Currently Unavailable)

This course provides an opportunity to stay on top of developments that directly and indirectly affect your clients and practice. The focus is on key guidance from legislation, tax agencies and the courts that represent new interpretations, as well as guidance on new laws.

News-making disasters affect your clients’ tax returns. Relief is available to taxpayers who’ve suffered these losses, but achieving that relief requires understanding and applying the applicable rules. There are also significant developments with the IRS in the area of casualty losses and getting those losses properly reflected on Form 4684. Taxpayers who have suffered losses in declared disaster areas may have opportunities to generate immediate cash savings as well as reduce current tax liabilities. This requires fully understanding the definitions of and rules surrounding casualty losses and properly applying them. These rules are complex and documentation is difficult, especially when many clients have lost all their records.

Covid strikes the U.S. economy. Congress strikes back giving away tax breaks and other money by the bushel baskets. Covid hits again. Congress strikes back. Treasury, SBA and IRS weigh in. The result? Chaos on top of chaos like we’ve never seen. And, it keeps coming. Layer upon layer upon yet more layers. How to sort it all out, choose well and move forward? We’ve knocked it down for you.

The pandemic has triggered many changes in tax rules and tax professionals need to take action to optimize the tax picture for individual clients. The SECURE Act, the CARES Act, and other legislation have affected your clients and there are many questions that still need to be sorted out for future planning purposes. This one-hour CPE session presented by experienced practitioner and instructor Barbara Weltman, J.D. will provide and update on critical year-end tax steps for your individual clients.

PPP Loans continue to evolve. Join Greg White has he a provides an update and walks you through completing forgiveness applications.

The pandemic has triggered many changes in tax rules and tax professionals need to take action to optimize the tax picture for their business clients. This one-hour CPE session will provide and update on critical year-end tax steps for businesses.