Despite the government shutdown, taxpayers are gearing up for tax season. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will begin accepting paper and electronic tax returns on January 28, 2019. That means that ...

Recent changes to employment law across the country have suddenly made it more complex to employ independent contractors — the workers for whom you’d typically fill in an IRS 1099 tax form. Like many ...

Tax season is approaching, and Social Security has made replacing your annual benefit statement even easier. The benefit statement is also known as the SSA-1099 or the SSA-1042S. Now you can get a ...

There is a special rule for cash-basis taxpayers regarding payments that are counted as expense in the tax year paid, but the recipient has income in the following year of actual receipt. For example, ...

Tax season has started, and already, you should have gotten a lot of the forms you need in order to prepare your return. In particular, if you had a bank, credit union, brokerage account, or other ...