Today the US government announced tax relief due to COVID-19 including: a 90-day extension on year-end tax payments for 2019, otherwise due on April 15 2020. The automatic waiver of interest and penalties upon receipt of these otherwise late payments. Individuals with...
Following on from the January 2018 measures introduced under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, the IRS released Notice IR-2019-23 on Wednesday, 27 February 2019. The latest notice is a fresh warning to taxpayers with overdue debt. They are...
‘Most New Zealanders recognize the importance of paying tax and meet their tax obligations. Some, however, do not. Tax avoidance reduces the integrity of the tax system and erodes social capital. It is also fundamentally unfair, because it means that compliant...
The Internal Revenue Service reopened on Monday, January 28, 2019, after a 35-day shutdown. This includes call centre phone lines. However, long wait times are inevitable.
Reactivation of IRS functions should, in the absence of any information to the contrary, begin to occur next week. This advice came amid Friday’s news that the US government shutdown was over, at least for three weeks. In order for this to occur,...
