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With its estate planning tips, small business tax advice, and wealth management content, Machen McChesney Blog is geared toward small business owners seeking financial advice. Our mission at Machen McChesney is to serve clients who share our commitment to value and excellence and maintain a professional team that is trustworthy, self-motivated, and highly skilled.
Machen McChesney
1w ago
If you operate a business, or you’re starting a new one, you know records of income and expenses need to be kept. Specifically, you should carefully record expenses to claim all the tax deductions to which you’re entitled. And you want to make sure you can defend the amounts reported on your tax returns in case you’re ever audited by the IRS ..read more
Machen McChesney
1w ago
Worker productivity has been in the headlines recently. One reason is the easy access employers have to the many technologies that can monitor employees — from software that tracks when an employee swipes their badge at work to software that notes how long someone is at their computer and what they do while they are there. Another is a certain manifesting distrust of workers, particularly the increased numbers of remote workers. Either way, there's impetus for employers to actively watch what their employees are doing ..read more
Machen McChesney
2w ago
Reporting on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters is an increasingly crucial area of corporate compliance. While ESG reporting and disclosure apply primarily to public companies, there are efforts aimed at requiring private companies to also report on these matters. For example, the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive requires private organizations that meet specific criteria to publish social and environmental risks and their impacts ..read more
Machen McChesney
2w ago
External auditors spend a lot of time during fieldwork evaluating how businesses report work-in-progress (WIP) inventory. Here’s why this warrants special attention and how auditors evaluate whether WIP estimates seem reasonable ..read more
Machen McChesney
2w ago
“An exemption from UNICAP? And no limitation on the amount of business interest expense I can deduct? Sign me up ..read more
Machen McChesney
2w ago
Your business should generally maximize current-year depreciation write-offs for newly acquired assets. Two federal tax breaks can be a big help in achieving this goal: first-year Section 179 depreciation deductions and first-year bonus depreciation deductions. These two deductions can potentially allow businesses to write off some or all of their qualifying asset expenses in Year 1. However, they’re moving targets due to annual inflation adjustments and tax law changes that phase out bonus depreciation. With that in mind, here’s how to coordinate these write-offs for optimal tax-saving resul ..read more
Machen McChesney
3w ago
Here are some of the key tax-related deadlines that apply to businesses and other employers during the second quarter of 2024. Keep in mind that this list isn’t all-inclusive, so there may be additional deadlines that apply to you. Contact us to ensure you’re meeting all applicable deadlines and to learn more about the filing requirements ..read more
Machen McChesney
1M ago
If you’re an employer with a business where tipping is routine when providing food and beverages, you may qualify for a federal tax credit involving the Social Security and Medicare (FICA) taxes that you pay on your employees’ tip income ..read more
Machen McChesney
1M ago
The Department of the Treasury and the IRS on March 5 released final regulations (TD 9988) on the elective pay election for certain energy tax credits under IRC Section 6417, added by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which treats the credits as a payment against federal income tax liabilities ..read more
Machen McChesney
1M ago
There is a new reporting requirement in 2024 that pertains to your current and new business(s).
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) was enacted into law as part of the National Defense Act for Fiscal Year 2021 and requires the disclosure of the beneficial ownership information (otherwise known as “BOI”) of certain entities from people who own or control a company ..read more