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Brazil / US Social Security Totalization Agreement

Tax Alert - August 29, 2018 It was recently announced that the Social Security Totalization Agreement (SSTA) between the US and Brazil will finally come into effect on October 1, 2018. It is estimated that approximately 1.3 million Brazilians and 35,000 Americans will benefit from this agreement.
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Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Paycheck Withholding Checkup

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed in December 2017, made significant changes to the US tax law, which will impact your 2018 US federal tax return. The tax law changes include:
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Tax Scams

IRS Alert on Tax Scams

The IRS has recently published an article regarding a sophisticated phone scam targeting individual taxpayers and employers. As the article notes, the callers claim to be IRS employees, using fake names and IRS identification badge numbers. They also may already know a lot about their targets, and they usually alter the caller ID to make it look like the IRS is calling.
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Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Overview

On December 20, 2017, Congress passed “An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles III and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018”. The original, much shorter name, was the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”, but it had to be disregarded late in the process in order to not violate the Senate’s Byrd Rule. President Trump signed the bill into law on Friday, December 22, 2017.
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Tax Scams

Information to Keep You Up-to-Date on Recent IRS Initiatives

Please note that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is planning to begin private collection of certain overdue federal tax debts starting in April 2017.
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Tax Scams

IRS Warns Again on Payroll Scam as Tax Season Begins

Be on the lookout for an email scam focusing on payroll records. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been made aware that another email scam is making its way across company payroll and human resource departments which uses a corporate officer's name to request employee Forms W-2.
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