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		<title>Combating Online Tax Fraud and Identity Theft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a victim of identity theft, one area of your life that may be affected is your tax accounts with the Internal Revenue Service.  Someone may file a tax return using your social security number.  If this occurs, the IRS is likely to reject your legitimate return as they already have one using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetaxdocspot.com/?p=96</link>
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		<title>Charities and Their Volunteers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have volunteered our services for a not-for-profit organization at some point in our lives.  Maybe you served on a committee at church, accepted a position on the board of directors of a charitable organization, helped out at the local school, or answered the phones at a fund raiser for the local Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules for Dependency can be Confusing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that the issue of whether a person can be a dependent on your 1040 would be a fairly simple issue.  However, that is not the case.  The IRS has some very precise rules regarding who may be claimed as a dependent and the circumstances under which they may be claimed.
The first test [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetaxdocspot.com/?p=91</link>
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		<title>Saving 4,000 Lives In Ghana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog posting has nothing to do with taxes.  However, I recently took a 10-day trip to Ghana to help distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets for the prevention of malaria.  I felt this might be of interest to some of my readers.  I beg your indulgence for the off-topic posting.
I was a member of the His [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetaxdocspot.com/?p=89</link>
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		<title>A Potpourri of Tax Topics from the IRS Forums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having just attended the IRS Nationwide Tax Forum in Atlanta, I picked up a great deal of information, some of which will be the subject of future blog posts.  However, I am going to devote this space today to some observations and quick comments from the Forum.  It was apparent, from observation, that tax return [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetaxdocspot.com/?p=87</link>
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		<title>IRS Wants Preparers as (Unpaid) Employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year the IRS announced plans for registration of paid tax return preparers.  Currently, anyone who wishes to prepare tax returns for a fee can do so with no registration, education, or competency requirements.  However, the vast majority of paid preparers are qualified, competent professionals.    Many are CPAs, Enrolled Agents, or attorneys.  Many additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burdensome New IRS Requirements for Form 1099</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the next two years, the requirements for issuing Forms 1099 will be increasing significantly.  The 2,409-page health reform bill included a significant change in the filing requirements for a 1099-MISC.  This one change will likely require that hundreds of millions of additional 1099s will be issued each year.  This requirement does not, however, take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetaxdocspot.com/?p=81</link>
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		<title>Deducting Home Office Expenses in a Small Corporation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your sole proprietorship business has done very well over the past few years.   What started as a small, part-time operation is now your full-time job and people are telling you that you should incorporate your business.  Maybe that is a good idea, but maybe not.  There are a number of factors to consider in choosing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetaxdocspot.com/?p=74</link>
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		<title>Changes for Businesses in the Health Care Reform Acts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous article, I discussed changes in the tax code for individuals as a result of the recently-enacted health reform acts.  While those may have seemed complex, they are nothing compared to the changes in the tax code for businesses.
Small businesses (25 or fewer employees and average annual wages of less than $50,000) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetaxdocspot.com/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Health Reform Brings Changes in the Tax Code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recently-enacted “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” and the “Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010” changes the health-care landscape in the United States.  Evaluating the effectiveness of the legislation is not my purpose here.  What many people do not realize is that there are several far-reaching effects on the tax code, both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetaxdocspot.com/?p=68</link>
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