Occasionally, a nonprofit will receive restricted gifts. With an unrestricted gift, organizations have the flexibility to use the money where it’s needed most. However, gifts with restrictions require a higher level of responsibility.
Despite COVID-19 and other roadblocks, your nonprofit needs financial resilience for the upcoming year and beyond. Forecasting can be difficult, but your staff and the board’s finance committee have ways to deal with obstacles. Here are three suggestions:
Businesses face several 2022 first-quarter tax deadlines. This list is not all-inclusive, and additional deadlines may apply to you. Also, remember that this list isn’t all-inclusive, so there may be other deadlines that apply to you.
Some nonprofits have discovered that budgeting, like many other things, sometimes is more effective when you try a new approach. For example, you may want to look at adopting a rolling budget — or by reforecasting an existing budget.
Kelly joined Olsen Thielen in 1985, after six years with a CPA firm in northern Minnesota. We thank Kelly for his leadership in our Eden Prairie office and offer him our best wishes as he transitions to his new role as a retiree.
The holiday season will soon be here and after a year of avoiding social gatherings, your business may want to show its gratitude to employees and customers by giving them gifts or hosting holiday parties.
Establishing an employer-sponsored Health Savings Account (HSA) for your employees is a way to provide some tax-advantaged health care benefits. For eligible individuals, an HSA offers a tax-advantaged way to set aside funds (or have their employers do so) to meet future medical needs.
According to a recent survey conducted by fundraising platform FrontStream, the vast majority (87%) of Americans say they’re donating to charity in 2021.
The Social Security Administration recently announced that the wage base for computing Social Security tax will increase to $147,000 for 2022 (up from $142,800 for 2021).
On September 24, 2021, the Minnesota Department of Revenue announced that their worksheet for calculating the Minnesota standard deduction limitation had been incorrect in their Instruction Booklet for both tax years 2019 and 2020.
If you use an automobile in your trade or business, you may wonder how depreciation tax deductions are determined. The rules are complicated, and special limitations that apply to vehicles classified as passenger automobiles can result in it taking longer than expected to depreciate a vehicle fully.
Whether your not-for-profit continues to hold videoconference board meetings or is back to in-person gatherings, you don’t want to waste members’ time. The key is good planning.
A business may be able to claim a federal income tax deduction for a theft loss. But does embezzlement count as theft? In most cases, it does, but you’ll have to substantiate the loss.
While preparing for a business audit, an IRS examiner generally researches the specific industry and the taxpayer’s return issues. In addition, examiners may use IRS “Audit Techniques Guides (ATGs).”
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