On the eve of the 2020 holiday season, CPA practitioners received both a gift and a lump of coal in their stocking—the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.
The National Conference of CPA Practitioners (NCCPAP) is here to help and offer support to practitioners everywhere. As regulations are issued by the IRS and U.S. Department of the Treasury to bring some clarity to aspects of the Bill, NCCPAP will be at the forefront of education, advocacy, and support. Look for future announcements, webinars, and other guidance from NCCPAP.
Pressure or safety relief valves (PRV/SRV) are commonly used to protect many processes—and ultimately your business. While highly essential, they can be costly to maintain and expensive to replace. Now you can safeguard your valuable PRVs and greatly extend their service life with affordable rupture discs from Fike. Fike rupture discs can be used to isolate your Pressure Relief Valves from process media and downstream contaminants. The rupture disc takes the abuse, preserving the internals of your PRV and protecting it from corrosive media, build-up and polymerization. Read more >
With the passage of the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021,” the National Conference of CPA Practitioners (NCCPAP), a national organization of small and mid-sized CPA practices, can claim a major victory for business owners/taxpayers.
Included in this legislation is the provision that all expenses paid for by PPP funds are now fully deductible. We want to thank the members of Congress for taking the concerns of the practitioner community into consideration and including this provision in the legislation.
Domicile is a lesser-known concept that goes beyond where you own property or where you spend most of your time and it is essentially intent-based. Domicile is a person’s fixed, principle, and permanent home or the place they intend to remain or return to, after being absent. While you can have multiple residences across many states, you can only have one domicile for state income tax purposes.
As many small businesses may be hit with a ‘surprise tax’ related to the PPP loans, Mark A. Stewart, Jr., CPA, asks NCCPAP Members to tell their members of Congress to support small businesses by passing S.3612 and H.R.6821, the Small Business Expense Protection Acts of 2020, or H.R.6754, the Protecting the Paycheck Protection Program Act.
NCCPAP Tax Chair, Steve Mankowski, CPA, recently attended the November 2020 IRS meeting. You can read his recap below, highlighting an IRS 2020 summary, technology at the forefront, new smart form availability, and a paper check reduction program.
Neil H. Fishman, CPA, CFE, FCPA, CAMS and Mark A. Stewart Jr., CPA, our respective outgoing and incoming presidents of NCCPAP, were recently featured in an Accounting Today podcast hosted by editor-in-chief, Dan Hood. They share the issues they’ve been working on, and what they see coming for the accounting profession.
Karen J. Tenenbaum, Esq., CPA, LL.M. and Principal/Founder of Tenenbaum Law, P.C. of Melville, NY has been invited to present a number of critical topics at ATS 2020, NCCPAP’s Annual Accounting and Tax Symposium on November 10, 13, 18, and 19. She has participated as a featured speaker for all 18 years—since its inception!
According to Ms. Tenenbaum, “The Tax Symposium is unique in that it brings together top thought leaders and practitioners at a single event. Although I’ll miss seeing my friends and colleagues in person, I appreciate that our co-chairs have worked exceptionally hard so that we can still gather (albeit remotely), exchange ideas, learn from one another, build relationships, and form strategic alliances.” Karen has been a proud member of NCCPAP for over 30 years, including Past Chair of the Tax Liaison Committee of the Nassau/Suffolk Chapter. She continues, “It is a wonderful organization dedicated to educating tax professionals and advocating on behalf of its members, their clients, and the public with respect to tax laws. It is an organization where practicing, experienced practitioners help one another on a regular basis. You can always pick up the phone and get sound advice from a colleague.”
This year’s impressive lineup of speakers includes over 60 knowledgeable thought leaders on a wide variety of topics. They are experienced presenters who are skilled at educating and engaging conference attendees. Ms. Tenenbaum’s sessions at this year’s symposium include: Five Degrees of Perspective on NYS Residency and Hear Directly from the IRS about IRS Tax Collection.
NCCPAP Tax Chair, Steve Mankowski, CPA, recently attended the October 2020 IRS meeting. You can read his recap below, highlighting the following topics: Tax Forums, Online Services, Enterprise Digitalization & Case Management, e-Signature, and the 2021 Get Ready Campaign.
Over the last decade, there hasn’t been much to complain about when it comes to equity performance. Even after the sharp decline seen in financial markets earlier this year, equity indices have rebounded with strength and now sit at or near all-time highs. The resilience, performance, and consistency of the market in the last ten years has been nothing short of impressive—that is, unless you’re a value investor.
Value and growth investment styles are two philosophies that are often compared and studied. The basic premise behind value investing is that companies who are undervalued, based on a variety of metrics, are sought out with the hopes that the market will eventually realize its full worth—it can be thought of as “seeking to buy a dollar for 50 cents”. Growth investing, on the other hand, is less concerned about the valuation of a company and more concerned about current and expected growth rates—even if there is a premium to pay. Growth investing can be thought of as “buying 50 cents for a dollar, expecting to sell it for 5 dollars”.
