Individual Tax Services | Steven Brewer & Company, CPA's

List of Services

INDIVIDUAL PACKAGE 1

Description of Service
This package is the base package which is more than just a tax return preparation. It includes an annual meeting to discuss potential tax savings once the client provides current year data.
Services Provided
* Individual Tax Return Prep
* Individual Tax Planning
* Estimate Reminder Service

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INDIVIDUAL PACKAGE 2
Description of Service
This package takes Package 1 and adds on a service which bases your tax estimates on more current data. For the last three estimates of the year, client provides current data on income and deductions. Estimates are based on this data.
Services Provided
* Individual Tax Return Prep
* Individual Tax Planning
* Individual Tax Estimates

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INDIVIDUAL PACKAGE 3
Description of Service
This package takes Package 2 and adds on audit protection. Audit protection service allows you to prepay for any potential notices or auditsw which may arise in the future for this tax year.
Services Provided
* Individual Tax Return Prep
* Individual Tax Planning
* Individual Tax Estimates
* Audit Protection

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ALA CARTE MENU
* Individual Tax Return Prep
* Individual Tax Planning
* Individual Tax Estimates
* Arrange for Payments of
Estimates
* Estimate Reminder Service

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(812)-883-6938

906 W. Mulberry St

P.O. Box 225

Salem, Indiana 47167

Latest news

Are Your Deductions Properly Documented?

January 22, 2025

Recently I came across a professional article about an old subject. Proper documentation. It was just a good reminder of a basic requirement for claiming deductions and expenses for returns. First off, the burden of proof for all deductions and expenses falls on the taxpayer. It is not the IRS job to disprove any deductions and expenses claimed, initially. Once the taxpayer submits proper documentation or evidence for a deduction/expense, then it becomes the IRS’s responsibility to disprove it. When providing proof of documentation, it must be organized such that one can know that it is the related deduction/expense. A tax court case in 2024 involved the taxpayer’s providing photocopies of bills, receipts and handwritten notes, as a group, along with a spreadsheet for one group of the expenses claiming they represented the deductions/expenses on his return. The copies were not grouped by the deductions/expenses or totaled to show the amount claimed. The court called it “the Shoebox Method”. For those of you too young to know what this is, us, old timers, use to see clients bring in a shoebox full of paid bills/receipts in a shoebox and give it to us to process. For some we call it the dashboard method because all the receipts are kept on the dashboard of the taxpayer’s truck until needed. The spreadsheet itself was brought into question as it contained in its listing transactions that no documentation could be found on. Also, transactions were doubled from the original receipt and the credit card receipt. After that, individual transactions were questioned when it appeared that no clients/customers were involved in the meetings. So, the spreadsheet was not credible. So, to summarize, when you want to claim a deduction or expense then you must have a document that supports the claim and then those related documents must be grouped together and totaled to properly substantiate the claim.

Good, Fast, Cheap

January 19, 2025

TRYING TO SAVE MONEY WHEN CHOOSING A CPA COULD BE THE WORST DECISION YOU’VE EVER MADE! The new year is here and now is the time when most, especially if they are business owners, start getting serious about closing out last year and getting ready for meetings with their CPA. It’s also a good reason to ask yourself- did I hire this person to do my taxes because they were cheap or because they were good? There are two things in life you don’t want to scrimp on when hiring a professional; one is your doctor and the other is your CPA and when choosing any professional there are usually three considerations: Good Fast Cheap But here’s the catch: You can usually only have two.  Like your physical health, the stakes are too high to cut corners or gamble when it comes to your business health Choose wrong and simple financial errors could lead to missed opportunities, tax penalties, or cash flow crises that could derail your business. So, this year, ask yourself the following questions. What’s the long-term cost of going fast and cheap and getting this wrong? Am I focused on quick and easy fixes over long term, sustainable solutions? In selecting a CPA partner, how much value do I place on accuracy and expertise? Is it enough to invest in it?  If you are building something for you and your families future, consider hiring a CPA that will take care of your business now while preparing you for the future. Have a tax or financial planning question? Contact Steven Brewer & Company at (812)-883-6938 or go to https://www.stevenbrewercpa.com/  

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