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    Month: January 2022

    Pass-Through Entity Tax Return New Guidance

    As discussed on pages 61 through 80 of the Tax Year 2021 M+O=CPE Individual Tax Year-End Workshop Reference Book, entities may elect to be subject to the New York pass-through entity tax (PTET) beginning with the 2021 tax year. New York has issued some new information about filing the annual PTET return, which is expected to be available in early February 2022. Using the webfile system, entities...

    IT-204 Reporting of PTET Credit

    As discussed on pages 61 through 80 of the Tax Year 2021 M+O=CPE Individual Tax Year-End Workshop Reference Book, entities may elect to be subject to the New York pass-through entity tax (PTET) beginning with the 2021 tax year. As discussed on page 70, New York State was expected to update its instructions related to the reporting of the credit by partnerships/LLCs.  New York State recently mad...

    Pass-Through Entity Taxable Income

    November 29, 2022 Update: New York State has changed its position regarding the addback of PTET payments when computing taxable income for PTET purposes. See our post on November 29, 2022.   As discussed on pages 61 through 80 of the Tax Year 2021 M+O=CPE Individual Tax Year-End Workshop Reference Book, entities that elect to be subject to the New York pass-through entity tax (PTET) must comput...

    1099-G and Fraud

    Over the past two years, there have been many cases of fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits where identity thieves used stolen names and Social Security numbers to submit claims for unemployment benefits. If a taxpayer had his or her identity stolen and used to claim fraudulent unemployment benefits, the New York State Department of Labor may issue a Form 1099-G, Certain Government Paymen...

    IRS Info Letters for Advance Payments

    The IRS has indicated that it will issue information letters to recipients of advance payments of the child tax credit starting in December 2021, and it will issue information letters to recipients of the third round of economic impact payments at the end of January 2022. It is vital that taxpayers know the amounts of such advance payments that they received, since these amounts must be reconcil...

    2022 Estate Tax Exclusion

    The 2022 federal lifetime unified estate and gift tax exclusion is $12,060,000, up from $11,700,000 in 2021.  In addition, the annual federal gift tax exclusion in 2022 is $16,000 per person per year, up from $15,000 in 2021 and earlier years. The 2022 New York estate tax exclusion is $6,110,000, up from $5,930,000 in 2021.  (There is no gift tax in New York State.)  If you have not already e...