The IRS has recently released Revenue Procedure 2017-34 (effective 6/9/2017) to provide a permanent simplified method for estates to make an election to pass the Deceased Spouse’s Unused Exemption (DSUE) to the surviving spouse (aka the estate tax portability election). BACKGROUND IRC Section 2010(c)(5)(A) provides that for a DSUE election...
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Although the effective date is still more than a year out, business owners and Accounting personnel are starting to prepare and ask questions on how the new standard will affect them. While the new standard will have substantial effects on some industries (Construction, Insurance, Not-for-Profit) , others won’t notice much...
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With years of experience using multiple platforms, the professionals here at Copeland Buhl offer a full range of bookkeeping services. Our goal is to help our clients develop the processes to reduce errors, increase efficiency, and ultimately save money and effort on bookkeeping. What’s more, by helping our clients keep...
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A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. They target a wide variety of important resources, from banks to news websites, and present a major challenge to making sure people can publish and access...
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March 16, 2017 by Staff
As Baby Boomers enter into retirement, employers are seeing that there are not enough individuals to backfill many of the roles the Baby Boomers filled within their organizations. As such, it is more critical than ever that employers review their employee turnover rate to determine if they are successful at...
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