Taxpayers are once again looking to CPAs for guidance and planning related to travel and entertainment expenses. This comprehensive mini-course examines and explains the practical aspects of business travel and entertainment deductions. To determine the expenses that taxpayers are able to deduct, fundamentals are reviewed and planning opportunities are identified. Practitioners will learn to master the proper administration of these complex and often cumbersome provisions.
ASSIGNMENT
At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:
* Transportation & travel distinguished
* Definition of “tax home”
* Temporary & indefinite assignments
* Business purpose requirement for business travel
* Convention & meetings
* Statutory exceptions of ordinary & necessary requirement
* Entertainment facilities
* Employee expense reimbursement & reporting
* Self-employed persons
* Employers
Learning Objectives
After reading the materials, participants will be able to:
1. Recognize the “away from home” requirement and specify the tests for tax home and recognize the differences between temporary and indefinite work assignments.
2. Identify deductible conventions and meetings, and specify the limitations applied to cruises.
3. Determine what constitutes business entertainment and identify business entertainment disallowance and statutory exceptions.
4. Specify the meal and lodging restrictions,, recognize the necessity of expense substantiation, and determine accountable and non-accountable plans.
To complete this course participants need to: Read the material provided and answer chapter review questions, successfully complete the qualified assessment with a minimum of 70% accuracy to receive your certificate. In Addition, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.
Upon course completion A course evaluation form is provided for your feedback.
Participants have 1 year from the date of purchase/enrollment to complete this course
CPE Prime is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org