Join us for the OSU Income Tax Schools Summer Update and Federal Income Tax and Financial Update Webinar

Written by Barry Ward, Director, OSU Income Tax Schools

Significant tax related changes as a result of the new legislation passed in response to COVID-19 have created some questions and perhaps consternation over the past few months.  Taxpayers and tax professionals alike are wrestling with how these changes may affect tax returns this year and beyond.  OSU Income Tax Schools is offering a Summer Update to address these issues and other important information for tax professionals and taxpayers.

The OSU Income Tax Schools Summer Update: Federal Income Tax & Financial Update Webinar is scheduled for August 13, 2020 and will be presented as a webinar using the Zoom platform.

Webinar content

• New tax provisions implemented by the CARES Act and Families First Coronavirus Response Act and how to account for them such as the new net operating loss rules, the payroll tax credit, etc.
• Paycheck Protection Program Loan Issues: loan applications, forgiveness issues and the IRS ruling on loan expenditures that are forgiven under PPP are not tax deductible and how to account for them in preparing a return, etc.
• Dealing with the IRS in these difficult times.  Also, what it means to the practitioner as to “dos” and don’ts” regarding the announcement that beginning this summer the IRS will allow the electronic filing of amended returns.
• The “Hot IRS Audit Issues – Pitfalls for S Corporations and Partnerships."  Basis of entities as to the rules and related rulings, how to track basis in these entities, creation of basis where none had been computed in prior tax years, losses in excess of basis and when they are not allowed, definition of an excess distribution, taxation of excess distributions, distribution of appreciated property,  conversion of C corporations to S corporations - do and don'ts, computation of the Built-In Gains Tax, inference and imputation of a reasonable wage for purposes of the computation of the qualified business income deduction, etc.
• Other rulings, developments, and cases.

Webinar personnel

• John Lawrence, CPA, John M. Lawrence & Associates: Instructor
• Barry Ward, Director, OSU Income Tax Schools: Co-Host & Question Wrangler
• Julie Strawser, Program Assistant, OSU Income Tax Schools: Co-Host and Webinar Manager

Details

• August 13^th, 2020:  10 am – 3:30 pm (lunch break: noon – 12:50 pm)
• Cost: $150
• Registration information and link to the registration page is at https://farmoffice.osu.edu/osu-income-tax-schools
• This workshop is designed to be interactive with questions from the audience encouraged.

Continuing education offered

• Accountancy Board of Ohio (5 hours)
• IRS Office of Professional Responsibility (5 hours)
• Continuing Legal Education, Ohio Supreme Court (4.5 hours)