Don’t forget your charitable donations when filing your taxes

The holiday season may be over, but tax season is only just beginning. While you get your paperwork together to start filing your taxes, you need to make sure you’ve got all your deductions in place, including your charitable donations. The Internal Revenue Service makes it easy to see if any donations you made in […]

Watch Out for Scammers Pretending to be IRS

In the last few months, have you gotten an urgent robo-call, telling you to return the phone call to settle your tax bill? You’re not alone, but you are in trouble. Not from the Internal Revenue Service, but from scammers. The IRS says these fake calls trick people into paying money to a number of […]

IRS provides Louisiana residents with new tax deadline

After the flood disasters in Louisiana earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service announced that victims have five more months to file returns that were originally due on September 17,2016. The new deadline for individual and business tax returns is Jan. 17, 2017. Residents in East Baton Rouge, Livingston, St. Helena and Tangipahoa areas will […]

Why you need your IRS tax transcript?

With identity theft as a constant worry, dealing with online banking and personal information can be worrisome to business owners. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that as many as 9 million Americans get their identities stolen every year. But the IRS is looking to crack down on these scams by making the authentication process more […]