2016 Tax Brackets and General Deductions

Individual, Trust and Estate Income Tax Brackets 2016 2015 Beginning of 15% Bracket Married Filing Joint (MFJ) or Qualifying Widow(er) (QW) $18.55 $18,450 Single 9,275 9,225 Head of Household (HOH) 13,250 13,150 Married Filing Separate (MFS) 9,275 9,225 Estates and Nongrantor Trusts 0 0 Beginning of 25% Bracket MFJ or QW $75,300 $74,900 Single 37,650…

E-filing Suspended Until January 2016

The IRS has temporarily suspended e-filing for individuals, businesses and fiduciaries. Therefore, we will be required to paper file any returns through January. If you receive your paper copy of a return and have any questions please do not hesitate to call the office for assistance. In an IRS Quick Alert notification, the Internal Revenue…

IRS Warns of Pervasive Telephone Scams

We thought we would repost this article from earlier this year as in the last couple weeks we have had numerous calls from clients who have received fraudulent IRS calls.  Just a reminder, the IRS will only contact you by mail. There has been an increased number of reported IRS scams recently.  We have heard…

Charitable Contributions – A Reminder

As the holiday season has kicked off and the end of the year fast approaching we thought it would be a great time to touch on charitable contributions. We have previously posted on this topic, see Financial Insights on Giving to Charities in the Money & Tax Articles section, but wanted to offer a quick…