Spidell’s California Minute®

Podcast: Understand the tax issues of holding a vacation home in an LLC
Friday, November 15th, 2024
Podcast: Property tax adjustments for commercial properties
Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
Podcast: Tricks and traps of filing a final corporate return
Friday, November 1st, 2024
Podcast: Understand how California treats accrued market discount income
Friday, October 25th, 2024
Podcast: Uber/Lyft workers may soon be receiving back pay and benefits
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
Podcast: Dividing property in a divorce
Friday, October 11th, 2024
Podcast: Making adjustments on the California return
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
Podcast: Another FUTA payroll tax increase is coming
Thursday, September 26th, 2024
Podcast: Nonresident sole proprietor income taxability
Friday, September 20th, 2024
Podcast: You don’t have to dissolve a California entity by December 31
Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
Podcast: Calculating California tax on trust income
Friday, September 6th, 2024
Podcast: Parent/child property tax transfers under Prop. 19
Friday, August 30th, 2024
Podcast: Be the hero: Make sure your clients don’t lose out on withheld amounts
Friday, August 23rd, 2024
Podcast: Inherited basis in joint tenancy assets
Thursday, August 15th, 2024
Podcast: Tips for filing Form FTB 3840
Friday, August 9th, 2024
Podcast: Help your clients avoid Web Pay errors
Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Podcast: Avoid these causes for POA rejections
Friday, July 26th, 2024
Podcast: Administrative dissolution for nonoperating businesses
Saturday, July 20th, 2024
Podcast: Remote worker issues: two common scenarios
Friday, July 12th, 2024
Podcast: What does it mean to be “doing business” in California?
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Podcast: EDD is auditing loan-out corporations
Friday, June 28th, 2024
Podcast: Real estate withholding and trusts
Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
Podcast: California tax rates: what’s included?
Friday, June 14th, 2024
Podcast: FTB has started its annual outreach letter campaign
Friday, June 7th, 2024
Podcast: Worker classification and tax professionals
Friday, May 31st, 2024
Podcast: Be ready to make the June 17 passthrough entity tax prepayment
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Podcast: MyFTB multi-factor authentication coming soon
Friday, May 17th, 2024
Podcast: Are your clients just receiving 2022 LLC fee late-payment notices?
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
Podcast: Property tax increases for partial transfers
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
Podcast: Tax treatment of CalPERS long-term care premium settlement
Friday, April 26th, 2024
Podcast: Bill would ease passthrough entity tax prepayment requirement
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Podcast: LLC filing essentials: what every tax pro needs to know
Friday, January 26th, 2024
Podcast: Improvements made to MyFTB account
Friday, January 19th, 2024
Podcast: FTB is going after out-of-state preparers
Friday, January 12th, 2024
Podcast: Key nonconformity issues for 2023 returns
Friday, January 5th, 2024
Podcast: Watch out for these common filing season traps
Friday, December 29th, 2023
Podcast: How to become a California nonresident
Thursday, December 21st, 2023
Podcast: Passthrough entities have until end of year to maximize federal tax benefits of elective tax
Friday, December 15th, 2023
Podcast: Some older POA declarations set to expire December 31, 2023
Friday, December 8th, 2023
Podcast: Annual tax exemption expiring in 2024 for certain entities
Friday, December 1st, 2023
Podcast: Splitting refunds when taxpayers divorce
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023
Podcast: California conformity/nonconformity to the SECURE 2.0 Act
Friday, November 17th, 2023
Podcast: Verifying estimated tax payments with the FTB
Thursday, November 9th, 2023
Podcast: One-time penalty abatement implemented
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
Podcast: California tax basis capital account reporting is coming
Friday, October 27th, 2023
Podcast: Avoid unclaimed property fines: get into compliance
Friday, October 20th, 2023
Podcast: How gross income from tiered LLCs impacts the LLC fee
Friday, October 13th, 2023
Podcast: California LLC electing S corporation treatment
Friday, October 6th, 2023
Podcast: How to handle identity verification notices from the FTB
Thursday, September 28th, 2023
Podcast: Proposition 19 questions answered
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Podcast: Passthrough entity tax: to elect or not to elect?
Friday, September 15th, 2023
Podcast: CalSavers and California’s retirement mandate
Friday, September 8th, 2023
Podcast: The e-pay mandate: don’t combine California estimates
Friday, September 1st, 2023
Podcast: Going from a SMLLC to a multimember LLC (or vice versa)
Friday, August 25th, 2023
Podcast: October 16 storm-related postponement traps to watch out for
Friday, August 18th, 2023
Podcast: Watch out for potential traps when paying passthrough entity taxes
Friday, August 11th, 2023
Podcast: ERC refunds and California returns, practitioner questions answered
Friday, August 4th, 2023
Podcast: New business personal property form for short-term rentals
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
Podcast: When do you need to file Form FTB 3840?
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
Podcast: What to do if an LLC filed a partnership return
Friday, July 14th, 2023
Podcast: No long-term care insurance tax in California…yet
Friday, July 7th, 2023
Podcast: Help clients avoid tax when retiring outside California
Friday, June 30th, 2023
Podcast: E-file issues that cause filing rejections
Friday, June 23rd, 2023
Podcast: How to respond when clients call about the new California Paid Sick Leave grants
Friday, June 16th, 2023
Podcast: FTB continues their outreach letter campaign
Friday, June 9th, 2023
Podcast: Passthrough entity tax elections and superseding returns
Friday, June 2nd, 2023
Podcast: Know the filing requirements when exchanging California property
Friday, May 26th, 2023
Podcast: Storm postponements delay June 15 payments
Friday, May 19th, 2023
Podcast: Nonresident sole proprietor income taxability
Friday, May 12th, 2023
Podcast: California’s one-time penalty abatement program is now live
Friday, May 5th, 2023
Podcast: How to minimize the impending SDI tax increase
Friday, April 28th, 2023
Podcast: More information on the October 16 disaster postponement
Friday, April 21st, 2023
Podcast: SECURE 2.0 Act conformity issues
Friday, January 27th, 2023
Podcast: How to become a California nonresident
Friday, January 20th, 2023
Podcast: Dissolving unused entities
Friday, January 13th, 2023
Podcast: FTB’s City/County tax information sharing program
Friday, January 6th, 2023
Podcast: Help clients avoid mandatory e-pay penalties
Friday, December 30th, 2022
Podcast: Timely information sharing, publicizing form changes, top Spidell’s wish list
Friday, December 23rd, 2022
Podcast: Middle Class Tax Refunds aren’t really tax refunds
Friday, December 16th, 2022
Podcast: SDI wage base cap eliminated starting in 2024
Friday, December 9th, 2022
Podcast: June 15 passthrough entity tax prepayment: fiscal year taxpayers, new entities, and more
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
Podcast: How to handle the FTB’s identity verification notices
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
Podcast: Base-year property transfers got a whole lot easier under Proposition 19
Friday, November 18th, 2022
Podcast: Are California’s Middle Class Tax Refunds subject to federal tax?
Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Podcast: FUTA taxes will increase in January
Friday, November 4th, 2022
Podcast: Should an entity make additional passthrough entity tax payments before the end of 2022?
Friday, October 28th, 2022
Podcast: Remember California no longer requires entities to dissolve by December 31
Friday, October 21st, 2022
Podcast: FTB is sending out “education” letters
Thursday, October 13th, 2022
Podcast: California’s tax benefits for conservancy and efficiency
Friday, October 7th, 2022
Podcast: Cannabis excise tax changes
Thursday, September 29th, 2022
Podcast: New unclaimed property questions on California tax returns
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Podcast: Tax basis capital account reporting
Friday, September 16th, 2022
Podcast: CalSavers will apply to more employers
Thursday, September 8th, 2022
Podcast: California tax treatment of student loan forgiveness
Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Podcast: Community income and residency: When does California tax out-of-state wages?
Friday, August 26th, 2022
Podcast: Watch out for erroneous passthrough entity tax refunds
Friday, August 19th, 2022
Podcast: Mismatched and unclaimed real estate withholding
Friday, August 12th, 2022
Podcast: Surprise ruling regarding nonresident sale of partnership interest
Friday, August 5th, 2022
Podcast: Emergency Proposition 19 rules adopted for parent–child transfers
Friday, July 29th, 2022
Podcast: Payroll tax increases coming in January
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
Podcast: Budget bill provides some tax relief
Friday, July 15th, 2022
Podcast: Passthrough entity elective tax and nonresident withholding
Friday, July 8th, 2022
Podcast: Top reasons for e-file rejections
Friday, July 1st, 2022
Podcast: EDD worker classification audits
Friday, June 24th, 2022
Podcast: California like-kind exchanges: Form 3840 FAQs
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
Podcast: Property tax increases for partial transfers
Friday, June 10th, 2022
Podcast: Taxing nonresident sole proprietor income
Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Podcast: Estimated gross receipts fee for LLCs due soon
Friday, May 27th, 2022
Podcast: June 15 passthrough entity elective tax prepayments
Friday, May 20th, 2022
Podcast: 10 tips for changing California residency/domicile
Friday, May 13th, 2022
Podcast: Mandatory e-pay requirements
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
Podcast: Passthrough entity tax payments due soon
Friday, April 29th, 2022
Podcast: CalSavers registration deadline is approaching
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
Podcast: Passthrough entity elective tax FAQs
Friday, January 28th, 2022
Podcast: Form 1099-NEC and other deadlines are approaching
Friday, January 21st, 2022
Podcast: Coming soon: Faster access to MyFTB Account
Friday, January 14th, 2022
Podcast: Schedule C taxpayers receiving self-correct letters
Friday, January 7th, 2022
Podcast: Deferred Social Security tax payments are due
Thursday, December 30th, 2021
Podcast: Year-end tax planning
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
Podcast: Passthrough entity elective tax payment issues explained
Friday, December 17th, 2021
Podcast: Lender letters: tips and traps
Friday, December 10th, 2021
Podcast: Are employer paid family leave benefits taxable?
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
Podcast: EDD looking for employment verification from PUA recipients
Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
Podcast: Guidance on 100% meals deduction: per diem rates
Friday, November 19th, 2021
Podcast: Latest Build Back Better Act provisions
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Podcast: Passthrough entity elective tax: FAQs
Friday, November 5th, 2021
Podcast: New S corporation shareholder basis reporting form
Friday, October 29th, 2021
Podcast: Which California forms will change for the 2021 tax year?
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Podcast: Passthrough entity elective tax credit does not reduce California tax below Tentative Minimum Tax
Friday, October 15th, 2021
Podcast: The passthrough entity tax and nonresident withholding
Friday, October 8th, 2021
Podcast: What to do with an IRS math error authority letter
Friday, October 1st, 2021
Podcast: FTB sending notices to new LLCs and corporations
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
Podcast: Build Back Better Act: Tax proposals on the table
Friday, September 17th, 2021
Podcast: Elective passthrough entity tax questions remain
Friday, September 10th, 2021
Podcast: Unemployment compensation: Should you file an amended return?
Friday, September 3rd, 2021
Podcast: CalSavers requirements and registration deadlines
Friday, August 27th, 2021
Podcast: Net operating loss suspension for high-income taxpayers
Friday, August 20th, 2021
Podcast: New hiring credits enacted
Friday, August 13th, 2021
Podcast: Employee Retention Credit guidance surprises
Friday, August 6th, 2021
Podcast: Draft Form 1040 and Schedules 1, 2, and 3
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
Podcast: IRS sending refunds to UI recipients
Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
Podcast: SALT workaround elective passthrough entity tax
Friday, July 16th, 2021
Podcast: Three-year IRA recognition spread and change in residency
Thursday, July 8th, 2021
Podcast: IRS collections and POA submissions
Friday, July 2nd, 2021
Podcast: Keeping score in the residency game: FTB 1, Taxpayer 0
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
Podcast: What if your client took the California PPP exclusion, but shouldn’t have?
Friday, June 18th, 2021
Podcast: President Biden’s proposed tax changes
Friday, June 11th, 2021
Podcast: Good news for COBRA recipients and employers
Thursday, June 3rd, 2021
Podcast: Keep on trucking: the fight against AB 5 continues
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Podcast: Advance payments of Child Tax Credit will begin in July
Friday, May 21st, 2021
Tips for claiming COVID-19–related payroll tax credits
Thursday, May 13th, 2021
Podcast: IRS to start reporting tax debts for passport revocation again
Friday, May 7th, 2021
Podcast: Zoom towns to boom towns
Friday, April 30th, 2021
Podcast: What happens to California subsidies based on ARPA’s subsidy repayment forgiveness?
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
Podcast: How to file a superseding return
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Podcast: PPP second draw loans
Friday, January 29th, 2021
Podcast: California health care subsidies: penalties and reconciliation
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
Podcast: The tax consequences of corporations relocating out of California
Friday, January 15th, 2021
Podcast: Comparing the first and second round of economic impact payments
Friday, January 8th, 2021
Podcast: Good news for employers
Thursday, December 31st, 2020
Podcast: Update on 2020 form changes and additions
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Podcast: File a copy of Form 1099-NEC with the FTB
Friday, December 18th, 2020
Podcast: Retirement living for less with a tax deduction too
Friday, December 11th, 2020
Podcast: New relief available for small businesses
Friday, December 4th, 2020
Podcast: What we know about deductions for expenses paid with PPP loans
Friday, November 27th, 2020
Podcast: Tax planning in 2020
Friday, November 20th, 2020
Podcast: California employees and federal independent contractors
Friday, November 13th, 2020
Podcast: Estate and trust deductions: guidance and new K-1 instructions
Friday, November 6th, 2020
Podcast: What is Prop. 22 really about?
Friday, October 30th, 2020
Podcast: Prop. 15 and Prop. 19: what changes would they bring?
Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Podcast: Payroll taxes and related penalties
Friday, October 16th, 2020
Podcast: Things to remember when a client buys or sells a home
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Podcast: CARES Act changes to charitable contribution carryovers
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Podcast: Should borrowers submit PPP loan forgiveness applications early?
Friday, September 25th, 2020
Podcast: New hiring credit enacted for small businesses
Friday, September 18th, 2020
Podcast: Critical new considerations for September 15 estimated tax payments
Friday, September 11th, 2020
Podcast: Important tax bills are in the Governor’s hands
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
Podcast: Temporary amended partnership audit rules under the CARES Act
Friday, August 28th, 2020
Podcast: Property tax changes on the November ballot
Friday, August 21st, 2020
Podcast: Appealing decisions on PPP loans and loan forgiveness
Friday, August 14th, 2020
Podcast: Taxpayer cleans up in employment tax case, but what would California say?
Friday, August 7th, 2020
Podcast: Qualified improvement property is eligible for bonus depreciation
Friday, July 31st, 2020
Podcast: Making a timely or late S corporation election
Friday, July 24th, 2020
Podcast: RMDs must be rolled back by August 31
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Podcast: Last-minute filing issues to consider
Friday, July 10th, 2020
Podcast: Uninsured Californians will face increased penalty on 2020 return
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
Podcast: Estimated tax payments: important considerations
Friday, June 26th, 2020
Podcast: California conformity to COVID-19 changes
Friday, June 19th, 2020
Podcast: Goodbye California, hello residency audit
Friday, June 12th, 2020
Podcast: AB 5 is full steam ahead
Friday, June 5th, 2020
Podcast: DOJ already picking up paycheck protection program loan fraudsters
Friday, May 29th, 2020
Podcast: §1031 exchange extensions
Thursday, May 21st, 2020
Podcast: Extended deadline to recontributed education expenses
Friday, May 15th, 2020
Podcast: CARES Act changes to net operating losses
Friday, May 8th, 2020
Podcast: IRS addresses erroneous economic impact payments
Friday, May 1st, 2020
Podcast: Recontributing your 2020 IRA distribution
Friday, April 24th, 2020
Podcast: Paycheck Protection Program loans: common questions
Friday, April 17th, 2020
Podcast: Small business accounting method reform and simplification
Friday, January 24th, 2020
Podcast: Make sure a refund is reported in the correct year
Friday, January 17th, 2020
Podcast: AB 5 lawsuits have already started
Friday, January 10th, 2020
Podcast: When must new withholding forms be filed?
Friday, January 3rd, 2020
Podcast: FTB’s involuntary administrative dissolution program begins in January
Thursday, December 26th, 2019
Podcast: Tax extenders and SECURE Act
Friday, December 20th, 2019
Podcast: FTB sending third round of like-kind exchange demand letters
Friday, December 13th, 2019
Podcast: Filing California returns after identity theft
Friday, December 6th, 2019
Podcast: Year-end gifting strategies
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Podcast: FTB’s new process for disallowing HOH status
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
Podcast: The gig economy: Will the feds follow California?
Friday, November 15th, 2019
Podcast: Make sure clients have health care to avoid new California penalty
Friday, November 8th, 2019
Podcast: When does a resident become a nonresident?
Friday, November 1st, 2019
Podcast: Federal and state solar incentives
Friday, October 25th, 2019
Podcast: California will allow all cannabis businesses to deduct expenses
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
Podcast: Doing time? Don’t get popped for failing to file, too
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Podcast: States’ challenge to $10,000 SALT limitation rejected
Friday, October 4th, 2019
Podcast: Nonresident sole proprietor’s income sourced to California
Friday, September 27th, 2019
Podcast: How will tax pros be affected by AB 5?
Friday, September 20th, 2019
Podcast: IRS releases “quiet” §199A guidance
Friday, September 13th, 2019
Podcast: The demise of the mailbox rule
Friday, September 6th, 2019
Podcast: Responding to FTB requests for more information
Friday, August 30th, 2019
Podcast: Which areas of nonconformity remain?
Thursday, August 22nd, 2019
Podcast: §199A and K-1 reporting
Friday, August 16th, 2019
Podcast: Taxability of nonresident pensions
Thursday, August 8th, 2019
Podcast: How to make small business accounting and partnership termination elections for 2018 returns
Friday, August 2nd, 2019
Podcast: Draft form 1040-SR released for 2019
Thursday, July 25th, 2019
Podcast: California’s new individual health care mandate
Friday, July 19th, 2019
Podcast: Filing zero due extensions – good idea or not?
Friday, July 12th, 2019
Podcast: Federal and California legislation affecting tax professionals
Friday, July 5th, 2019
Podcast: FTB launches new website
Friday, June 28th, 2019
Podcast: Using the Ralite case and offers in compromise
Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Podcast: Administrative dissolution: an alternative to Ralite
Friday, June 14th, 2019
Podcast: IRS transcript fax service discontinued
Friday, June 7th, 2019
Podcast: State-mandated retirement program in the works
Friday, May 24th, 2019
Podcast: How a 1099-B can be an audit red flag
Friday, May 17th, 2019
Podcast: Changes to some POA declarations
Friday, May 10th, 2019
Podcast: California adopts $500,000 economic nexus threshold for use taxes
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
Podcast: Notices you may get from the FTB
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Podcast: Post-tax season catch-up
Thursday, April 18th, 2019
Podcast: Is your 2017 refund included on the 1099-G?
Friday, January 25th, 2019
Podcast: New voluntary disclosure program picks up where old one left off
Friday, January 18th, 2019
Podcast: What does the government shutdown mean for tax pros?
Friday, January 11th, 2019
Podcast: Report federal adjustments to the FTB
Friday, January 4th, 2019
Podcast: See what an entity needs to do to avoid being assessed the $800 tax
Friday, December 28th, 2018
Podcast: Pre-filing season update
Thursday, December 20th, 2018
Podcast: Residency and the 546-day rule
Friday, December 14th, 2018
Podcast: Planning for the IRC §199A deduction: Businesses
Friday, December 7th, 2018
Podcast: Planning for the IRC §199A deduction: Individuals
Friday, November 30th, 2018
Podcast: New Schedule CA addresses TCJA nonconformity
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018
Podcast: Use tax letters being sent to individuals
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Podcast: Administrative dissolution for inactive LLCs and corporations in California
Friday, November 9th, 2018
Podcast: IRC §199A and specified service trades or businesses
Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Podcast: What is the EDD saying about Dynamex?
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Podcast: When the power goes out on filing day
Friday, October 19th, 2018
Podcast: Guidance clarifies miscellaneous itemized deductions for fiduciary returns
Friday, October 12th, 2018
Podcast: Guidance on business meal expense deductions
Friday, October 5th, 2018
Podcast: Raising fees and justifying it
Friday, September 28th, 2018
Podcast: FUTA rate cuts coming to California employers
Friday, September 21st, 2018
Podcast: FTB business audits by the numbers
Friday, September 14th, 2018
Podcast: Legislative update: bills sent to Governor
Friday, September 7th, 2018
Podcast: SALT limitation workaround: IRS regs and a California bill
Friday, August 31st, 2018
Podcast: FTB calling practitioners to expedite POAs
Friday, August 24th, 2018
Podcast: §199A proposed regulations — quick and dirty
Friday, August 17th, 2018
Podcast: Your tax dollars at work (or not)
Friday, August 10th, 2018
Podcast: Who is responsible for filing Form 3840 after a like-kind exchange?
Sunday, August 5th, 2018
Podcast: Which tax preparers can sign a California return?
Friday, July 27th, 2018
Podcast: Steps to take if your practice suffers a data breach
Friday, July 20th, 2018
Podcast: EAs’ practice rights limited in Nevada
Friday, July 13th, 2018
Podcast: Cali-three-nia dreamin’
Friday, July 6th, 2018
Podcast: The Wayfair decision: physical presence no longer required for sales and use tax purposes
Friday, June 29th, 2018
Podcast: Possible California conformity to centralized partnership audit rules
Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Podcast: Electronic payments: penalties and waiver requests
Friday, June 15th, 2018
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