#tax-compliance
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Starting January 1, 2026, OBBBA's new IRC §274(o) cuts the employer deduction for on-site cafeterias, office snacks, and "convenience of the employer" meals from 50% (or 100%) to zero, while client meals, travel meals, and restaurant employee meals keep their old treatment. Here's the math on what the change costs and how small businesses should restructure their books.
FASB's ASU 2026-02 creates Topic 818, the first GAAP framework for environmental credits, splitting carbon offsets, RECs, and RINs into compliance, noncompliance, and voluntary categories with different measurement rules, effective for public companies in fiscal 2028 and private companies in fiscal 2029.
Florida's SB 606 (Section 509.214, effective July 1, 2026) requires restaurants to disclose any non-tax "operations charge" on menus, bills, receipts, and contracts in a font size at least as large as menu item descriptions, and to itemize gratuities, operations charges, and sales tax as separate line items on every receipt.
The IRS postponed tax deadlines to August 20, 2026 for Honolulu, Maui, and Kauai counties after the March 2026 Kona Low storms — but Hawaii's separate Form L-115 state relief closes July 20, and SBA loan deadlines fall on August 13, 2026 (physical damage) and January 7, 2027 (EIDL). Here's who qualifies, what's automatic, and the casualty-loss election that can accelerate a refund.
Detailing margins live per job — price per ticket, cost chemicals per job, expense the van via Section 179/bonus, defer coating warranty revenue, and run on revenue per job and net margin after owner labor.
Kentucky HB 757 eliminates the state's 200-transaction economic nexus threshold effective August 1, 2026, leaving a $100,000 revenue-only test — joining Alaska, Utah, and Illinois in a broader multi-state shift away from transaction-count triggers.
Maine now applies its 5.5% sales tax to streaming video, music, audiobook, and podcast subscriptions as of January 1, 2026, with economic nexus triggered at $100,000 in revenue from Maine customers.
Maryland's 3% tech-services tax (effective July 1, 2025) and Washington's ESSB 5814 (effective October 1, 2025) made IT consulting, custom software, data processing, and digital advertising taxable — even for out-of-state sellers past economic nexus thresholds. Here's what's taxable, the contract-renewal trap, and a compliance checklist.
Starting tax year 2026, the OBBBA limits gambling loss deductions to 90% of winnings. Breakeven gamblers may owe IRS tax on phantom income from the 10% gap.
Nearly every state requires sales tax registration before your first pop-up or holiday market sale, but the mechanism varies — California issues a free temporary seller's permit, New York demands a full Certificate of Authority, and Utah licenses each event separately. A state-by-state breakdown, the five mistakes that cost vendors money, and a pre-event compliance checklist.
A 1099-K from StockX or GOAT reports gross payments, not profit. Here's how sneaker resellers track per-pair cost basis, apply FIFO to cop-and-flip inventory, deduct platform fees that run 10-12% per sale, and meet the restored $20,000/200-transaction reporting threshold with clean books.
Under IRS Notice 2014-21, every mining pool payout is ordinary income at its fair market value on receipt — a daily-payout pool creates ~365 taxable events a year before you sell anything. This guide covers hobby vs. Schedule C classification, 15.3% self-employment tax, Section 179 vs. 100% bonus depreciation for ASICs, the 2026 per-wallet cost-basis rule, Form 1099-DA reconciliation, and the per-lot records mining books need to survive an audit.
