Guidance for People Who Received Tips or Overtime Pay in 2025

The Internal Revenue Service have issued guidance for workers eligible to claim the deduction for tips and for overtime compensation for tax year 2025. Specifically, the IRS clarified for workers how to determine the amount of their deduction without receiving a separate accounting from their employer for cash tips or qualified overtime on information returns
-> Continue reading Guidance for People Who Received Tips or Overtime Pay in 2025

Form 1099-K threshold reverts to $20,000

Recent legislation retroactively reinstated the reporting threshold in effect prior to the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) so that third party settlement organizations are not required to file Forms 1099-K unless the gross amount of reportable payment transactions to a payee exceeds $20,000 and the number of transactions exceeds 200.
-> Continue reading Form 1099-K threshold reverts to $20,000

Final Regulations for Catch-up Contributinos

The IRS issued final regulations on September 15 addressing the new Roth IRA catch-up contribution rule enacted as part of the SECURE 2.0 Act in December 2022. These final regulations generally follow the proposed regulations issued in January 2025, with some changes made in response to comments the IRS received. The new rule generally requires
-> Continue reading Final Regulations for Catch-up Contributinos