{"id":2937,"date":"2014-03-04T12:06:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T20:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.huddlestontaxcpas.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2014-03-04T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T20:06:50","slug":"relevant-information-on-changes-to-the-2014-tax-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/blog\/relevant-information-on-changes-to-the-2014-tax-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Relevant information on changes to the 2014 tax code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an accounting business who serves other small businesses, we think updating our clients on changes to the tax code is a part of our business. So if you&#8217;ve just dropped in, why don&#8217;t you take a moment to see what condition the US tax condition is in. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=od_6M8cFdUA\">Relevant?<\/a> Relevant.<\/p>\n<p>We mentioned in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.huddlestontaxcpas.com\/tax-accounting-post\/small-business-tax-filing-and-fox-news\/\">recent post<\/a> that small businesses can expect a reduction in the number of lines necessary to make the home office deduction. Well, there were 5 changes. Here are the top 3 according to us:<\/p>\n<p>1.) The online sales tax. This has been in the news lately, and if you&#8217;re an online retailer in some capacity, you&#8217;re probably aware of it.\u00a0 While in the past many companies got away with not charging their customers an online sales tax &#8220;by creating separate legal subsidiaries to handle Internet business,&#8221; it appears that practice is no longer a viable strategy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolo.com\/legal-encyclopedia\/sales-tax-internet-29919.html\">Read here for more information.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.) Income tax. &#8220;The tax rate for the top federal wage went from 35 percent to 39.6 percent.&#8221; This will affect you directly if you make more than $400,000 in taxable income as an individual or if you married with a joint income of $450,000, but any changes to the tax code are usually felt in a ripple.<\/p>\n<p>3.) The tax on long-term capital gains will rise from 15% to 20%. So if you have investments prepare to pay a little more.<\/p>\n<p>[Source:] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessnewsdaily.com\/5871-small-business-tax-filing-changes.html\">http:\/\/www.businessnewsdaily.com\/5871-small-business-tax-filing-changes.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Give us a call at 425-483-6600 to handle your tax returns for you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an accounting business who serves other small businesses, we think updating our clients on changes to the tax code is a part of our business. So if you&#8217;ve just dropped in, why don&#8217;t you take a moment to see what condition the US tax condition is in. Relevant? Relevant. We mentioned in a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-filing-taxes-tax-returns","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}