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CPA Client BulletinAustin Associates sends a digital Client Tax Bulletin every month that focuses on recent changes in tax laws, tax tips and business topics. We also send out a separate email newsletter several times a year with news from our firm, including staff updates, local civic involvement, etc. If you would like to join our email list please click here.

  2012
    April 2012 Business Owners May Defer Tax on an Employee Stock Ownership Plan Sale, Transferring Qualified Replacement Property, Keep Track of Noncash Contributions, Tax Calendar
     
    March 2012 Offering an Educational Assistance Program Can Be A Smart Move, How IRA Distributions Are Taxed, Qualified Dividends Still Have Tax Advantages,Tax calendar
     
    February 2012 IRS offers a deal to companies claiming contractors, Home office deductions demand exclusivity, Making sense of mutual fund taxation, Tax calendar
     
    January 2012 Make Disability Insurance Less Taxing, Dealing with Required Distribution, Weighing the Benefits of Medicare Advantage, Tax Calendar
     
  2011
   

December 2011 Holiday poem, technology resources available to you- Client Portal, Online payments and E-Statements, Albert Bergen earns Certified Public Accounting License, upcoming 2012 Maine Agricultural Trades Show, Small Business Tax Tips Winter 2011, Visit our redesigned website.

December 2011 Contrarian Investing Versus Momentum Strategies, Deferred Like-Kind Details, Dodge a Real Estate Tax Trap With Like-Kind Exchanges, Trim the Tax on Your Social Security Benefits, Tax Calendar

     
    Winter Tax Tips, 2011 - Small Business Edition Business Trips and Conventions, mixing business with pleasure; Outsourcing Payroll; Auto Expense; Day Care Providers Allowed a Per Diem; Self-Employed Health Insurance; Beware of Eamil Scams; Small Business Health Care Tax Credit; IRS Discontinues Mailing of Certain Packages
     
    November 2011 Year-End Tax Planning for Investors, Roth IRA contributions, Year-End Tax Planning for IRAs, Year-End Tax Planning for Long-Term Capital gains, Year-End Tax Planning for Itemized Deductions, Tax Calendar
     
    October 2011 Estate Planning Beyond Estate Taxes: Will Power; Title Tactics; Beneficiary Blunder, Income Tax and Estate Planning With Your Parents: Senior Strategies; Give and Get, Don’t Take a Vacation From Estate Planning: Avoiding Acrimony, Tax Calendar
     
   

September 2011 Freeze your Credit to Foil Identity Theft, Convertibles Offer Bond-Like Yields, Stock-Like Potential, A SIMPLE Solution for Company Retirement Plans, Tax Calendar

September E-News Austin Associates hosting two fall seminars: High Performance QuickBooks and Financing College, We've launched our new website, IRS Announces New Worker Classification Settlement Program, Matt Bennett volunteers as a guest speaker for Senior and Junior classes at Lewiston High School, Jeremy and Crystal tie the knot on September 10th!!

     
   

Summer Tax Tips 2011- Personal Edition Mortgage Debt Tax Relief, Name Changes and the IRS, Credit for Child & Dependent, Care Expenses, Divorce Payments, Receiving Tip Income, Does Your Child Have Investments?, Quick Tips

     
   

August 2011 Check the Numbers on 529 Plans, 529 Basics, Coverdell Accounts Can Cover Precollege Costs, Student Loan Deductions, Taking Credits for Higher Education, Finding a Use for the Tuition and Fees Deduction, Coping with the Kiddie Tax, Tax calendar

     
   

July 2011 Health Insurance Reporting is Delayed, Qualified Dividends, Consider Dividend-Paying Stocks, Social Security After Death or Divorce, Tax Calendar

July 2011 Frozen Treats, IRS Increases Mileage Rate, Online Payments, Tax Tips Summer 2011, George Richardson, CPA Bailed Out!, Wedding Bells for Hillary and Adam Dow - next to tie the knot, Jeremy and Crystal!, Erica Madore joins the firm

     
    June 2011 Adjusting for the AMT, Choosing the right 401 (k), Avoid Higher Medicare Premiums, Small Businesses Fight Soaring Health Care Costs, Tax Calendar
     
   

May 2011 Austin Associates recognized by 2011 Healthy Androscoggin's Work Healthy Program, expanded 1099 repeal update, Mike Spaulding presents at New Ventures Program at USM-LA College, Carol Richardson retiring, Tax Season Intern Jessica Dumond

May 2011 Tax Free Savings Bonds, Which Savings Bonds, Prepaying Tax May Be a Good Tactic, Use Appreciated Assets for Charitable Donations, Going for the GOLD, Tax Calendar

     
    April 2011 State Taxes can Crimp Your Cash Flow, Voluntary Disclosure, Plan Now for Expanded 1099 Reporting, Deduct- Don't Depreciate, Be Sure About Beneficiaries, Tax Calendar
     
    February 2011 Technology and the impact on the way we do business, 2011 Agricultural Trades Show, Social Security and Medicare Tax Change for 2011, 5 Tax Tips for self Employes Individuals, Sebago Lakes Region Chamber Annual Awards recognizing Phil Doucette, CPA,
     
  2010
    December 2010 A New Year's poem from Austin Associates: To Staple or Not to Staple, Two Year Extension of Tax Cuts, S-Corporations and Health Insurance Add Backs to W-2's, BETR applications are due by December 31, 2010, Austin Associates 60th Anniversary Celebration
     
    November 2010 Offering more resources with our CPA Client Bulletin, Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS), Jeremy Marchessault becomes a licensed CPA!!, we're now offering online statements, invoices and accepting payments online, 2010 United Way Day of Caring
     
    September 2010 (with a new look and more content) Tax Planning Strategies, Bonuses that look like dividends, Avoiding disguised dividend tax traps, How to pass a home to your children, tax celendar
     
    March 2010- Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, Health Care Reform Act, Seven Facts About Social Security Benefits, Still time to take advantage of Home Buyer Credit, A new baby in Phil's family, 2010 Go Read for Women day and our support of the American Heart Association
     
    February 2010- American Opportunity Credit, First Time Home Buyer Credit Enhanced, Rotary memberships, Staff Maple Breakfast
   
  2009
    February 2009- Turbulent Economic Times, 1099-B deadline extended for many investors, check the status of your refund, avoid tax scams, Direct Deposit
     
    March 2009- 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, COBRA, Making Work Pay Tax Credit, Bonus Depreciation and Code Section 179 Expense Deduction, Net Operating Losses, American Opportunity Tax Credit, Energy Efficiency Tax Credits, Alternative Minimum Tax
     
    April 2009- Do you Barter?, tax incentives for the purchase of new automobiles, top ten facts about the Child & Dependent Care Credit, Austin Associates and Camden National Bank co-hosting business seminar on May 20, 2009, we are hosting the business after hours of the Oxford Hills Showcase on May 9, 2009, Keep Maine Strong
     
    May 2009 Help for Tax payers, Tax Planning: Self-Employes Individuals, Tax Planning: Minimizing Itemized Deductions, Oxford Hills Business Showcase, May 20th Seminar to be co-hosted by Austin Associates and Camden National Bank: Accounting and Commercial Lending in a Challenging Economy
     
    June 2009 Changes in Maine Sales Tax will affect you, Cash for Clunkers Bill: $3,500 or $4,500, Keep Maine Strong
     
    November 2009 2009 Best Places to Work in Maine, Home Buyers Credit extended, State of Maine changes, Maine estimated payment alert, Tax Planning, Scott and Julie-Ann welcome Jaxson to their family, statistics from the IRS, Long Term Care Insurance, new car tax deduction, scam warning, NATP Fall/Winter newsletter, Maine Women's Network member
     
    December 2009 A festive poem to welcome in the New Year, recent scams to watch out for, changes in Workman's Comp for members of the construction industry, We are a proud member of the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce and YPLAA
     
  2008
   

January 2008- 1099 & W-9 Enforcement, IRA Designated Beneficiary, 2007 Maine Innkeepers Annual Conference

     
   

February 2008- Simplified Accounting Article, BETR Program, Economic Stimulus Payments, 2008 Maine Agricultural Trades Show

     
   

March 2008- Managing Cash Flow Article, "Circuit Breaker Program", Economic Stimulus Payments, 2008 Bowl For Kids Sake sponsorship

     
   

April 2008- Form 8879, Tax Guide for active U.S. Armed Forces, Covering the Cost of College While Saving Tax Dollars, Business Evolution Summit- MAPC, Warning- Email Scams, Androscoggin Chamber- Not your Normal Formal

     
   

May 2008- Section 179 Deductions and 2008 Federal Bonus Depreciation, Becky's new baby boy, The Earl B. Austin, Jr. Award, 13th Annual Androscoggin Business 2 Business Tradeshow

     
    June 2008- IRS increases optional standard mileage rate, Matt's new baby girl, John Pike retires, money tree winner, Happy Independence Day
     
    August 2008- Housing Assistance Act of 2008
     
    November 2008- Importance of 2008 tax planning, link to CCH Tax Briefing: President-Elect Obama's Tax Proposals: A Forecast