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2024 Tax Season Information

Your 2024 individual income tax returns are due Monday, April 15, 2025. We can promise to have your returns completed and back to you in time for filing, only if your completed organizer and tax information are in our office by Monday, March 3, 2025. Please plan to return your signed E-file authorization forms to us no later than Monday, April 7, 2025.

Entity returns are due on various dates which are in the schedule in this letter. Please review the dates that data is due in our office, as well as filing and extension dates. Please forward this letter to your bookkeepers so that they can get your data to you in a timely manner.

Organizers- Please complete your data organizer as thoroughly as possible. The better organized you are, the faster your income tax returns can be completed which, in turn, will reduce the preparation time and costs. Please let us know if you would like your original tax data returned to you. We are planning to use CCH ProSystems to process your 2024 income tax returns. We have used CCH ProSystems services for over thirty-five years, and we have been very pleased with their confidential and professional processing of returns.

Completing an Organizer - Please review your organizer carefully. Cross out any items that are pre-printed, but no longer apply to you (children filing their own returns, bank accounts, etc.). If you receive W-2's, 1099's, brokerage statements, K-1's, clip them to the appropriate pages in the organizer. There is no need to rewrite this information. The organizer is a guide for you to gather the paperwork we will need to prepare the return.  Please keep your organizer until it is complete.  If you always have a late K-1 however, send everything else and note what you are waiting for.  If you upload your data, please request a link from our office when your data is substantially complete. Additionally, we would like to inform you that all original documents are scanned for electronic retention purposes.

SafeSend Return Delivery – We will continue to deliver all tax returns electronically, via SafeSend.  SafeSend is a safe delivery method that protects your data and allows you to review your returns, electronically sign e-File forms, pay tax due payments and estimates. If your email address has changed, please inform us so we can update SafeSend and our records.

Mandatory Health Insurance (Individual Coverage Responsibility – California Only)

Prior to 2019 the IRS was handling the enforcement of mandatory health insurance coverage for individuals as previously enacted by the "Obamacare Act".  The penalty for failure to maintain a minimum health insurance coverage was administered via the federal tax return.  Starting in 2019 the IRS is no longer enforcing a required mandatory coverage.  However, please be aware that California and some other states have their own mandatory health insurance coverage provisions.  Furthermore, please note that if you availed yourself of Advance Premium Credits for your health insurance and the amount of such credit taken is higher than the allowed based on your Modified Adjusted Gross Income, you will still be required to repay the excess credit so taken on your 2024 federal tax return.  Therefore, it is imperative to submit with your tax data to us any Form 1095-A, 1095-B or 1095-C you will receive from your health insurance provider so that we can correctly prepare the applicable form on your federal tax to reconcile the Advance Premium Credits.  Failure to do so will result in delays of your tax return processing by the taxing authority and generally the IRS will issue a notice requiring you to submit the credit reconciliation form before your filed federal tax return can be processed.  Similarly, it is important to provide to us the California equivalent tax forms (Form 3895) supplied by your health insurance provider which are separate from the federal forms and are essential to apply the mandatory minimum health coverage reconciliation on your 2024 California tax return.

New Rules for Clean Vehicle Credit

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 significantly revised the electric vehicle tax credit rules.  Starting in January of 2023 it is very important to verify that an electric vehicle is a qualifying vehicle since the act is bringing strict manufacturing rules for the eligibility of the credit. Starting in tax year 2024 for you to be able to claim the credit the dealer must provide to you Form 15400 (Clean Vehicle Seller Report) which verifies the eligibility of the vehicle for the credit upon its sale to you.  A copy of this form is also filed with the IRS.  For us to be able to claim the credit on your applicable 2024 tax return we will need this form to be provided with your tax data.  Furthermore effective 01/01/2023 the credit is only available to taxpayers subject to gross income limitations: $300,000 for married filing jointly, $225,000 for Head of Household and $150,000 for all other taxpayers.  Finally, the credit will be available only for vehicles with MSRP not exceeding $80,000 for vans, pick-up trucks or SUV’s and not exceeding $55,000 for other vehicles.  Since starting in 2024 there is an option to obtain the credit in advance at the dealership upon acquisition of an eligible electric vehicle, please make sure to submit to us Form 15400 even in cases where you have claimed the credit in advance at the dealer so that we can properly reconcile the credit you have already obtained on your tax return for 2024.  In cases where you have obtained credit directly with the dealer but your overall income is above the applicable thresholds as listed above the credit will have to be adjusted on your 2024 tax return.                                                                                                            

We are looking forward to working with you again this year.

Jorstad Incorporated

Timothy Jorstad

Rado Simeonov

John Kirk

Michael Stites

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