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Mansoor Ansari

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Texas Resale Certificates are not enough in an Audit

Texas Resale Certificates are not enough in an Audit In an effort to keep up to speed with the latest changes in Texas sales tax rules and regulations, I wanted to brief you on the topic of resale certificates. Resale certificates are given to those vendors that purchase at wholesale…
Mansoor Ansari
August 11, 2021
Tax Law

Tax Attorney Kingwood TX

Tax Attorney Kingwood TX With 2020 around the corner, here are some IRS audit red flags and hot spots to double check your tax return: Schedule C meals and entertainment (you are only allowed half of what you spent) Automobile deduction (you can take either mileage OR actual expense OR…
Mansoor Ansari
January 1, 2020
News and Articles

Tax Attorney Atascocita TX

Tax Attorney Atascocita TX Located on the border of Humble and Atascocita, TX, our firm routinely services residents and business owners in the Humble, Kingwood, and Atascocita area. With the influx of residents and business owners over the last several years into this region, the most common IRS tax problem…
Mansoor Ansari
January 1, 2020
News and Articles

Tax Preparer Defense Attorney Houston

Tax Preparer Defense Attorney Houston Call: 888-577-1482 If you are a tax preparer and have been more than lenient in giving out deductions for the Earned Income credit, fuel tax credit, or similar small business deductions on schedule C, then, you might have been contacted by the IRS Criminal Investigations…
Mansoor Ansari
November 26, 2019
Tax Law

Tax Attorney Humble Texas

Tax Attorney Humble Texas Humble City Council approved a property tax rate of $0.25 per $100 valuation for fiscal year 2018-19, 5 cents higher than the city’s 2015-16 property tax rate, at a special meeting Sept. 20. Despite this increase, the city of Humble maintains the third-lowest tax rate out…
Mansoor Ansari
November 4, 2019
News and ArticlesTax News

Debt Cancellation May be Taxable

Debt Cancellation May be Taxable If a lender cancels part or all of a debt, a taxpayer must generally consider this as income. However, the law allows an exclusion that may apply to homeowners who had their mortgage debt canceled in 2016. Here are 10 tips about debt cancellation: Main…
Mansoor Ansari
March 2, 2017
News and ArticlesTax News

IRS Farmers Fisherman Tax Deadline

IRS Farmers Fishermen Tax Deadline The Internal Revenue Service reminds farmers and fishermen about the March 1 deadline to take advantage of special rules that can allow them to forgo making quarterly estimated tax payments. Taxpayers with income from farming or fishing have until March 1 to file their 2016…
Mansoor Ansari
February 26, 2017
News and ArticlesTax News

Texas Sales Tax On Car Lease

Texas Sales Tax On Car Lease Texas laws require that the lessor (the lease company) pay sales tax on the full value of any vehicle they buy from a dealer and lease back to a lessee (you and me). This is different from most other states in which no such…
Mansoor Ansari
February 12, 2017
News and ArticlesTax News

IRS 60 Day Rollover Retirement Plans

IRS 60 Day Rollover Retirement Plans The Internal Revenue Service today provided a self-certification procedure designed to help recipients of retirement plan distributions who inadvertently miss the 60-day time limit for properly rolling these amounts into another retirement plan or individual retirement arrangement (IRA). In Revenue Procedure 2016-47, posted today…
Mansoor Ansari
February 12, 2017