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Every divorce is also a tax event. Filing status changes, dependency claims shift, assets move between spouses, and sometimes old IRS problems surface at the worst possible moment. Most of these issues sit quietly in the background until a client receives an unexpected bill or notice months or years after the decree is signed. Family […]

You’d be surprised how many tax returns get rejected because someone else already filed a fraudulent return using the taxpayer’s Social Security number. And the numbers keep going up. In 2024 and 2025 alone, the IRS’s identity theft filters flagged about 7.5 million individual returns, according to a May 2026 report from the Treasury Inspector

Your 2026 tax return will not be filed until 2027, but most of what goes on it is decided before December 31, 2026. Once the calendar turns, the window for most tax-saving moves closes. What is left in the spring is mostly paperwork. This year deserves more attention than usual. The One Big Beautiful Bill

Your vehicle is probably one of your biggest business deductions, and it is also one of the first places the IRS looks when it reviews a small business return. The reason is simple: cars are used for both business and personal driving, and the line between the two is easy to blur. When the records

Few post-divorce tax disputes are as common, or as avoidable, as two parents claiming the same child. One parent e-files in January. The other’s return is rejected in February. By March, both are calling their attorneys. The root of the problem is usually a settlement agreement that says who “gets” the child for tax purposes

Every family law attorney knows that the state’s property regime shapes how the marital estate is divided. What’s easy to overlook is how much that same regime shapes the tax consequences of the divorce, from how income is reported during separation to which spouse walks away with a hidden tax bill. This article compares community

For years, crypto investors had to rely on their own records to figure out their taxes, and the IRS had to rely on taxpayers to report honestly. That era is over. Every individual tax return now asks about digital assets on the first page of Form 1040, and centralized crypto exchanges have begun sending the

If you drive for a rideshare app, deliver groceries, sell handmade goods online, or get paid for freelance work through PayPal or Venmo, you have probably heard a lot of conflicting information about Form 1099-K over the last few years. First the reporting threshold was $20,000. Then it was going to drop to $600. Then

(Spoiler: more than you think, and probably more than your cousin who “day trades on the side” wants to admit.) Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately: the IRS does not care that your Bitcoin was “basically just sitting there.” It does not care that you “only” swapped one coin for another and

If you’ve ever stared at your bank balance feeling flush, only to discover a stack of unpaid bills waiting in the wings — or watched your books show a healthy profit while your checking account tells a very different story — you’ve bumped into one of the most fundamental decisions in small business finance: how