#tax-compliance
Stay compliant with tax regulations and filing requirements
How restaurant, bar, and hospitality employers compute the Section 45B FICA tip credit on Form 8846, using the frozen $5.15 minimum wage floor and the 7.65 percent multiplier — including the 280C add-back, common audit pitfalls around service charges, and how to recover up to three years of unclaimed credit through amended returns.
Section 465 at-risk rules cap partnership and S-corp losses at your actual economic stake.
Section 4960 imposes a 21% excise tax when a tax-exempt organization pays a covered employee more than $1 million. The 2025 OBBBA expansion redefines "covered employee" as anyone employed since 2017, widening the tax base for hospitals, universities, and foundations filing Form 4720 in 2026.
A trustee's guide to the Section 645 election. File Form 8855 to fold a qualified revocable trust into the related estate during the election period and unlock a fiscal year, the charitable set-aside deduction, a two-year exemption from estimated tax payments, and a single combined Form 1041.
SECURE 2.0 Section 101 requires new 401(k) and 403(b) plans established after December 29, 2022 to auto-enroll employees at a 3-10% default deferral with 1% annual escalation. A 2026 compliance guide covering EACA notices, the four exemptions, QDIA selection, the 90-day permissible withdrawal, and the December 31, 2026 plan amendment deadline.
Sixteen US jurisdictions run mandatory paid family and medical leave programs in 2026, with new benefits live in Minnesota, Maine, and Delaware, a 23% Washington premium hike to 1.13%, and a permanent Section 45S federal credit. This guide covers which states require withholding, how private plan exemptions work, how PFML coordinates with FMLA and ADA, and the W-2 Box 14 codes that break payroll when miscoded.
A practical breakdown of how travel nurses keep housing and meal stipends tax-free — covering the IRS tax home rule, the 12-month assignment cliff, duplicate-expense documentation, multi-state nonresident returns, and which states have reciprocity agreements.
The Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax imposes a 15% levy on Adjusted Financial Statement Income for corporations averaging over $1 billion in AFSI. A practical guide to who qualifies, how AFSI is computed under section 56A, the FPMG $100M U.S. test, Form 4626 mechanics, and the interim simplified safe harbor.
Under OBBBA, Section 250 renames FDII to FDDEI, sets the deduction at 33.34%, eliminates the QBAI offset, and removes interest and R&E allocation — producing an effective 14% federal rate on qualifying foreign-derived income for U.S. C corporations filing Form 8993 in 2026.
A working guide to the FDII (now FDDEI) deduction on Form 8993 — which U.S. C corporations qualify, how the Section 250 math drops the effective federal rate to 13.125% on foreign-derived income, the taxable income limitation, documentation the IRS expects, and how OBBBA simplifies the calculation starting in 2026 by removing the QBAI step and expense allocations.
Trusts hit the top 37% federal bracket at just $15,200 of taxable income, while a single individual does not until $609,350. This guide walks fiduciaries through Form 1041, distributable net income (DNI), Schedule K-1 allocations, the separate share rule, and the 65-day election used to shift income to beneficiaries at lower rates.
A 2026 fiduciary's guide to Form 1041 — why trust brackets hit 37% at $15,200, how distributable net income routes taxable income to beneficiaries through Schedule K-1, and how the 65-day election cuts the tax bill after year-end.
