#tax-compliance
Stay compliant with tax regulations and filing requirements
Tunisia's 2026 Finance Law lets small businesses under 100,000 TND turnover pay a flat 4,000 or 5,000 TND a year — half that in rural zones — and skip tax audits for six years. The flat tax only beats the progressive schedule above roughly a 45% net margin in the lower bracket and 26% in the upper one; here is the break-even math, the eligible activities, and the four traps.
When a seller doesn't charge sales tax, the buyer owes use tax to their own state at the local rate. This guide covers the five situations that trigger use tax for small businesses, how to self-accrue it on a sales tax or consumer use tax return, and why auditors target it first.
For 2026 the section 402(g) elective deferral limit is $24,500 per person ($32,500 with the age-50 catch-up, $35,750 at ages 60 to 63), aggregated across every 401(k), 403(b), SIMPLE IRA and SARSEP you contribute to in the year. An excess not refunded with earnings by April 15 is taxed twice, once as wages in the contribution year and again on distribution. Steps include totaling W-2 Box 12 deferrals, notifying the plan in writing, reading 1099-R codes P and 8, and capping payroll after a mid-year job change.
IRS Notice CP87A means two returns claimed the same dependent's Social Security number. It is not an audit and not a bill — if you are entitled to the claim, the IRS says do nothing. This guide covers the five qualifying-child tests, the tie-breaker ladder, why a divorce decree loses to overnight counts without a signed Form 8332, the 2025 IP PIN fix for e-file rejections, and when to amend with Form 1040-X.
Under BIR Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 47-2026, issued May 19, 2026, Philippine micro taxpayers with gross sales of 3 million pesos or less can close their registration without a mandatory audit and receive a tax clearance within three working days, and non-filing penalties stop accruing once a complete BIR Form 1905 packet is submitted. This guide lists the exact documents, the manual and electronic filing channels, the five-step closure sequence, and the mistakes that still delay an exit.
Sweden exempts businesses with annual taxable turnover at or below SEK 120,000 from VAT registration, but since January 2025 the exemption also requires EU-wide turnover under €100,000. This guide explains the two-part test, why non-EU companies get no threshold, the SEK 90,000 intra-Community acquisitions rule, when voluntary registration pays off, and how to keep turnover evidence audit-ready.
Thailand's Cabinet extended two digital-tax incentives through 31 December 2027 — a 200% deduction on e-Tax Invoice, e-Receipt and e-Withholding Tax spending, worth 40,000 baht of tax on 100,000 baht spent at the 20% corporate rate, and a flat 1% withholding rate on payments routed electronically, down from 2–5%. Here is what qualifies, what to segregate in your books, and why the implementing Royal Decree still needs checking before you claim.
From 1 January 2026 Vietnam no longer collects the business license fee (lệ phí môn bài) and no longer requires its annual declaration, saving companies VND 2–3 million and household businesses up to VND 1 million a year — but arrears for 2025 and earlier remain collectible, and VAT, income tax and e-invoicing obligations are unchanged.
The Cohan rule lets a court estimate an ordinary business deduction when you can prove the money was spent but not the exact amount — and Section 274(d) forbids that estimate entirely for travel, entertainment, gifts, and vehicles. Here is what reconstruction evidence actually persuades an examiner, why bank statements alone usually fail, and a six-step playbook for rebuilding a missing-receipt file.
Section 7611 lets the IRS examine a church only after a high-level Treasury official records a reasonable belief in writing, sends two separate notices, and agrees to finish within two years and stay away for five. This guide walks through each stage, the pre-examination conference, the five exceptions that remove the protection entirely, and the three bookkeeping failures that trigger most church inquiries in practice, namely unrelated business income, informal payroll, and campaign intervention.
Under Section 7502 a return mailed on or before its due date is deemed filed on the postmark date — but only if it actually arrives, and a postage-meter date never counts. Since December 24, 2025, USPS postmarks reflect regional processing rather than deposit, so certified mail or a free manual postmark is the proof that holds.
The IRS finalized the No Tax on Tips regulations in April 2026 with a closed list of 71 qualifying occupations, a new W-2 Box 14b for up to two three-digit occupation codes, Box 12 code TP for qualified tips, and a voluntariness test that disqualifies automatic gratuities and POS flows with no zero option. Here is what tipped employers must change in payroll, point-of-sale and bookkeeping before 2026 forms go out.
