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November 16, 2017

Common Payroll Tax Issues

By Tony Dai, CPA, Senior Tax Manager
ASL Technology Group

The Social Security Administration announced that the maximum wages in 2018 subject to the 6.2% Social Security tax, or “FICA”, will rise from $127,200 to $128,700, an increase of just over 1%. The FUTA (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) taxable wages ($7,000) is expected to remain unchanged. It is important to calculate both FICA and FUTA taxes correctly when an employee has multiple employers during the year. (more…)

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Categories: Business Taxation, Operations Management
Tags: Federal Unemployment Tax Act, FICA, FUTA, Social Security Tax, Technology Group, Tony Dai,
By Naila Sharifova
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October 18, 2016

Important Tax Considerations When You Sell Your Business: An Overview (Part I)

Selling your business may seem like a natural progression for your company and the possibility of early retirement may look closer than ever, but without careful planning and execution and thorough consideration of the tax impact of sale, eventual financial outcome may end up being much smaller than anticipated.

You can structure sale of your business in two primary ways: 1) sale of the stock or interest in the company or 2) sale of underlying assets. Depending on the structure chosen, special elections made and type of underlying assets, composition of gain as ordinary vs capital may differ significantly and so may the tax liability.

Now let’s consider tax consequences of selling your business under two different scenarios. Under the first scenario, you are the owner of a closely held C corporation. Under the second scenario, you are the owner of a pass-through entity, an S corporation or a partnership. (more…)

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Categories: Business Taxation, Execs & Owners, Financing & Exit Strategies, Operations Management
Tags: c corporation, early retirement, exit strategy, retirement, sale, sale of assets, sale of stock, Selling your business, tax free reorganization,
By Abraham Livchitz
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August 3, 2016

Employer Owned Life Insurance: File a tax form and save $400,000

Business entities use insurance to provide protection against various risks ranging from natural disasters to cyber threats. As our economy has evolved the risks that can be insured against have grown more complex. An introduction to business insurance was the topic of our August, 2015 Emerging Business Group seminar. One traditional use of insurance is to provide funds to compensate a business in the event of the death of a founder or other key employee. For founders and other stockholders, the life insurance proceeds received by the entity can be used to fund the purchase of the founder’s ownership interest in that entity. In the case of key employees, life insurance proceeds can help to offset potential revenue losses or increased costs incurred while the entity determines how to deal with the knowledge and resources lost due to their employee’s death. (more…)

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Categories: Business Taxation, Operations Management, Updates & Alerts
Tags: Abe Livchitz, COLI, Company Owned Life Insurance, Employer Owned Life Insurance, EOLI, Form 8925,
By Deepa Bhat
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July 20, 2016

Don’t Be A Victim to Fraud – Implement These Anti-Fraud Controls Now!

A recent survey conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) estimates that fraud losses for a typical organization amount to 5% of total revenues each year with median losses to the tune of $150,000. More than one‐fifth of such losses hit the million dollar mark. The most common type of fraud: asset misappropriation with median losses of $125,000 comprised 83% of all fraud cases reported while financial statement fraud schemes made up just 10% of the total fraud cases, but caused the greatest median loss at nearly $1 million. The frauds reportedly lasted 18 months before being detected. The most telling fact was that private companies logged the highest median loss of $180,000 in comparison to public companies, government, non-profit and other sectors. (more…)

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Categories: Audit & Accounting Errors, Myths & Guidelines, Operations Management
Tags: ACFE, Anti-fraud, Company, Controls, Deepa Bhat, Fraud, Loss, Tips, Whistleblower,
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January 27, 2016

Technology and Connectivity: Understand and Mitigate Data Breach Risks

By Nick Sabbatini, Audit Senior

In previous posts, Technology and Connectivity: You Are at Risk and Technology and Connectivity: The Most Likely Way That You Are at Risk of Being Breached by a Cyber-attack, it was suggested that everyone is at risk of experiencing a data breach and human error was the weak point leading to a majority of breaches. This third and final installation helps provide some general advice on mitigating the risk of potential data breach.

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Categories: Operations Management, The Musings of our Authors, Updates & Alerts
Tags: connectivity, data breach risks, Nick Sabbatini, technology,
By ASL Guest
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January 20, 2016

Technology and Connectivity: The Most Likely Way That You Are at Risk of Being Breached by a Cyber-attack

By Nick Sabbatini, Audit Senior

In a previous post, Technology and Connectivity: You Are at Risk, it was noted that the technologically connected world we live in puts us at risk of being a victim of a data breach. This post explores the topic further, assessing the most likely way that a breach might occur.

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Categories: Operations Management, The Musings of our Authors, Updates & Alerts
Tags: Cyber security, Cyber-attack, Nick Sabbatini, Risk, technology,
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January 13, 2016

Technology and Connectivity: You Are at Risk

By Nick Sabbatini, Audit Senior

It’s a fact of life. People love being connected. If you haven’t noticed the throngs of people staring, tapping, and swiping their mobile devices in public places, chances are you’ve been too intent on the electric glow of your own personal device to notice. And, really, with the entire internet at our fingertips and a never ending line of apps offering tailored entertainment, personal management, and connectivity to our business lives, few people these days are immune to the benefits of technological advances and connectivity. This is true for business entities, as well.

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Categories: Operations Management, The Musings of our Authors, Updates & Alerts
Tags: Data Breach, Nick Sabbatini, Risk, technology,
By Jyothi Chillara
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December 23, 2015

Non-residents and U.S. stock options - Taxable or Not?

It is very common for U.S. parent companies to include key non-resident alien employees of their foreign subsidiaries in their stock option plans. What happens when the non-resident exercises the options or sells the options? Is the non-resident subject to withholding tax? Is there a U.S. tax filing requirement?

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Categories: International Business Issues, Operations Management, Updates & Alerts
Tags: employees, ISO, Jyothi Chillara, non-resident, NSO, RSU, taxable, u.s. stock options,
By Kay Filler
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January 28, 2015

Lease Accounting – Some Gotchas

As the FASB and the IASB slowly inch through their long-standing leasing project that will, in all likelihood, move all leases longer than one year to the balance sheet, it doesn’t mean that current GAAP requirements for leases don’t present some challenges, even for simple office facility leases.

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Categories: Audit & Accounting Errors, Myths & Guidelines, Financing & Exit Strategies, Operations Management
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