Roger Jellison

Roger Jellison
Roger is a seasoned finance and accounting professional with 8 years of public accounting and over 25 years of private company experience in a broad range of industries including manufacturing, distribution, technology (software, hardware, and telecom), construction, and services.

Income Tax Definition

Income Tax Definition

Constitution was ratified, legalizing the government’s right to collect a federal income tax. That same year, Congress passed legislation that made income tax a part of American life. The federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act provided $600 weekly supplemental unemployment benefits for individuals out of work for ...

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How To Obtain A Copy Of Your Tax Return

How To Obtain A Copy Of Your Tax Return

It’s not clear if the other companies would offer refunds. TurboTax used to cost $0 to maybe $40 a couple of years ago. • $0 Fed, $0 State, $0 to File with Free Edition for simple tax returns only. ProPublica tried to fill out a tax return, for example, as an independent contractor for Task Rabbit who made $29,000 in 2018. But after ...

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Internal Revenue

Internal Revenue

Unsurprisingly, an income tax was levied that very year. government responsible for collecting taxes and enforcing customs, among other duties. Form W-9 is an Internal Revenue Service form which is used to confirm a person’s taxpayer identification number . Form W-2 reports an employee’s annual wages and the amount of taxes ...

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Standard Deduction

Standard Deduction

It does not reduce the net earnings from self-employment or reduce the self-employment tax itself. The good news is that the self-employment tax will cost you less than you might think because you get to deduct half of your self-employment tax from yournet income when calculating your income tax. TheIRStreats the “employer” ...

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Stock Options

Stock Options

ISO holders will report nothing at this point; no tax reporting of any kind is made until the stock is sold. If the stock sale is a qualifying transaction, then the employee will only report a short-term or long-term capital gain on the sale. If the sale is a disqualifying disposition, then the employee will have to report any bargain ...

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Index Of Applicable Federal Rates

Index Of Applicable Federal Rates

The taxpayer joins a health club with membership fees of $400 per year. The taxpayer can make an arrangement to give the health club a $5,000 deposit on which it can earn 8% interest which would be equal to the $400 membership fee. This arrangement allows a taxpayer to earn the benefit of the interest without paying any taxes on it. A ...

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