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Tackling Those Confusing 1099 And W-2 Changes

27 January 2012

If tax documents arriving now are giving you the mailbox blues, here’s help.

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Credit Card Reporting for Tax Purposes Debuts This Month

13 January 2012

Form W-2, check. Form 1099-Misc, check. Form 1098, check. Form 1099-K… wait, what? Yep, there’s a new form from the IRS out this year and one might be landing in your mailbox soon. The federal form 1099-K, Merchant Card and Third Party Network Payments, will debut early this year: forms 1099-K are due to merchants [...]

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New Credit Card Reporting Requirement Worries Some Taxpayers

25 October 2011

And you thought bank fees were bad… There’s a new form on the block, Form 1099-K, Merchant Card and Third Party Network Payments, making its debut in a few months, just in time for the 2012 filing season. The form is the result of new compliance reporting requirements for certain credit card and third party [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: When Is Blogging Income Earned?

12 February 2010

Taxpayer asks: Thanks taxgirl for helping me out on this one! I have a couple of different ad and affiliate accounts for my blog. When I earn money, they bank it until I hit a certain dollar amount and then they make a deposit into my PayPal account. A few of them accumulated earnings in [...]

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Ask the Taxgirl: Taxable Gifts

15 March 2007

Taxpayer asks: My mom gave me money through my paypal account. There were 3 separate transactions totaling $380 but was non-business related, do I need to claim these transactions along with the other income from my business since they used my PayPal account? Taxgirl says:  Absolutely not! Though I will take this opportunity to discourage [...]

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IRS Again Pursuing Offshore Funds

11 April 2006

A federal court in San Jose, California, gave the IRS permission to ask PayPal Inc. for account information for American taxpayers who have bank accounts, credit cards or debit cards issued by financial institutions over the last ten years in more than 30 countries reputed to be tax havens. This is similar to a summons [...]

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