Tax Preparation 2025 Useful Pointers
On 12/19/24, anticipating the 2025 filing season, the IRS published Tax Preparation 2025 Useful Pointers in IR-2024-311: Prepare to file in 2025: Get Ready for tax season with key updates, essential tips. As the 2025 filing season draws near, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has urged taxpayers to undertake essential preparations for submitting their 2024 […]
Deepfake Media FinCEN Fraud Alert
On 11/13/24, FinCEN issued an alert aimed at assisting financial institutions in recognizing fraudulent schemes linked to the utilization of deepfake media generated by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. The alert for deepfake media outlines the various typologies related to these schemes, offers red flag indicators to aid in the detection and reporting of suspicious […]
Pig Butchering Crypto Scams Rising
Pig Butchering Crypto Scams are scams which resemble the practice of fattening a hog before slaughter. “Victims invest in supposedly legitimate virtual currency investment opportunities before they are conned out of their money. Scammers refer to victims as “pigs,” and may leverage fictitious identities, the guise of potential relationships, and elaborate storylines to “fatten up” […]
Digital Assets Broker Reporting
On 6/28/24, the U.S. Treasury and the IRS issued final regulations with an effective date of 9/9/24 requiring custodial brokers to report sales and exchanges of digital assets beginning in calendar year 2025. Meaning, information reporting and the determination of amount realized and basis for digital asset sales and exchanges. Digital Assets Broker Reporting means […]
IRS Voluntary Disclosure Practice
Taxpayers that have willfully failed to comply with tax or tax-related obligations may be able to resolve their non-compliance and limit their exposure to criminal prosecution by filing an application to the IRS Voluntary Disclosure Practice. The IRS Voluntary Disclosure Practice is a compliance option only available to taxpayers that have willfully failed to comply […]
1099-DA Could Come 2025
On 4/19/24, the IRS published draft Form 1099-DA for reporting digital asset proceeds from broker transactions. The IRS states that: “This early draft release reflects the notice of proposed rulemaking that appeared in the Federal Register on August 29, 2023. This early draft release may change based on decisions made in response to comments received […]
Dirty Dozen 2024
On 4/11/24, the IRS concluded the release of the Dirty Dozen 2024. The Dirty Dozen is an annual taxpayer awareness campaign which began in 2002 listing twelve scams and schemes that place taxpayers, businesses, and the tax professional community at risk of losing money, personal information, data and more. The Dirty Dozen 2024 is an […]
Tax Strategies and Schemes to Avoid Taxes at IRS Forefront
On 4/11/24, the IRS wrapped up its 2024 Dirty Dozen List with a “warning to taxpayers regarding promoters selling bogus tax strategies and fraudulent offshore schemes designed to reduce or avoid taxes altogether”. Tax strategies and schemes to avoid taxes remain a high priority for the IRS. “Taxpayers should be wary of anything that seeks […]
Fraud is the Number One Crime in Money Laundering
On February 2024, the U.S. Treasury released the 2024 National Money Laundering Risk Assessment (NMLRA) which examines the current money laundering environment and identifies the ways in which criminals and other actors seek to launder funds. The Assessment aims to: inform the understanding of illicit finance risk by governmental and private sector actors, strengthen risk […]
FATF Key Actions February 2024
On 2/23/24, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an independent inter-governmental entity that develops policies for protection of our global financial system from money laundering, terrorist financing and financing of weapons of mass destruction and considered to be the global money laundering and terrorist financing “watchdog”, concluded its fifth Plenary under the Singaporean presidency. The […]
Is Your 2023 Tax Preparer Asking You the Right Questions?
Tax season is here and on 2/1/24, the IRS reminded Taxpayers to choose a 2023 Tax Preparer carefully when preparing their 2023 Taxes. Taxpayers are ultimately legally responsible for all the information on their income tax return, regardless of who prepares it. A tax preparer can have different levels of skills, education and expertise and […]
Digital Assets 2023 Form 1040
On 1/22/24, the IRS reminded taxpayers that they must again answer the digital asset 2023 question on Forms 1040 and 1040-SR and report all digital asset related income when they file their 2023 federal income tax return, as they did for their 2022 federal tax returns for Digital Assets in 2022. The 1040 2023 Instructions […]
