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On April 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service announced that Social Security beneficiaries who are not typically required to file tax returns will not need to file an abbreviated tax return to receive an Economic Impact Payment. Instead, payments will be automatically deposited into their bank accounts. The announcement […]
The IRS has announced that the due date for filing returns and making payments for federal gift and generation-skipping transfer tax has been extended until July 15, 2020. This additional coronavirus relief guidance was released in Notice 2020-20, which updates the previously-released Notice 2020-18. These estate and gift tax returns would have been due on […]
In response to COVID-19, the City of Pittsburgh is extending its personal income tax deadline until July 15, in line with similar 90-day extensions announced by the Internal Revenue Service and the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. The City’s Finance Department will continue real estate billings, but will stop all real estate delinquent billings and late […]
As is well known by now (see related posts below), the federal government has extended the due dates for filing your 2019 income tax returns, as well as any payments due, until July 15, 2020. While Pennsylvania law statutorily ties state returns for corporations to the federal extension, such is not the case for individuals, […]
The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2020-17 on March 18, 2020, which postponed the due date for certain Federal income tax payments from April 15, 2020, until July 15, 2020. (see related posts below) Just two days later, this Notice was “superseded” by Notice 2020-18, which was released to […]
In response to an intense push by taxpayers and tax professionals over the last several days, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin announced on March 20, 2020, that the 2019 income tax filing deadline (which was April 15, 2020) will be moved to July 15, 2020. The 90-day delay matches the previously announced extension to […]
In an attempt to ward off a potential recession in the U.S. economy as a result of federal and state actions intended to thwart the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Senate Republican, released a massive economic stimulus bill on March 19, 2020. The cost of the package is currently estimated to be a staggering […]
A major disconnect occurred earlier in week when the Treasury department announced that the deadline for paying any final federal income tax liabilities for 2019 was extended until July 15, 2020. The original due date was April 15, as it has been for decades. The temporary reprieve also extended to those amounts taxpayers would have […]
In response to the difficulties created for all Americans by the Coronavirus pandemic, taxpayers were given a recess for tax payments due on April 15, 2020 for calendar year 2019. This guidance does not change the April 15 filing deadline at this point, though further guidance is expected. The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue […]
Making sense of U.S. sales and use taxes can be difficult. That’s because, unlike most countries, the United States doesn’t have a national sales tax. So, there isn’t a standard rate that can be applied consistently to every sale. Rates are set at the state level instead, and with little coordination between state legislatures, they […]
