Home Office Tax Deduction

Home Office Tax Deduction

There is an option that makes it simpler for qualifying taxpayers to include a home office tax deduction. The IRS announced a simplified option that many owners of home-based businesses and some home-based workers may want to use to figure their deductions for the...

Hiring Your Own Family to Work for You?

If you operate your business as a sole proprietorship, a single-member LLC (treated as a sole proprietorship for tax purposes), or a husband-wife partnership, here’s a great family tax planning deal: Hire your under-age-18 children as legitimate employees of the...
Secure Tax Deposits for Payroll

Secure Tax Deposits for Payroll

Here are some of the ways that GTM reassures our clients that their tax deposits for payroll are secure. Management Controls: GTM is independently and routinely audited and as a result is SOC-1 compliant. GTM pays strict attention to Industry Best Practices....
Tax Benefits of Net Operating Losses

Tax Benefits of Net Operating Losses

A net operating loss, or NOL, occurs when a business’s operating expenses and other deductions for the year exceed its revenues. Although the name would seem to indicate that operating in a “loss” situation is negative, there may be tax benefits of...
Is Severance Pay Subject to Payroll Taxes?

Is Severance Pay Subject to Payroll Taxes?

On March 25, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the IRS in a case against a now-defunct employer, Quality Stores. At issue was the question of whether severance pay for laid off workers was subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes under the Federal...

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