Firmbach & Firmbach CPAs

07/28/2025

View Ann Vandersea's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

10/14/2024

Because of hurricanes Debby, Helene, and Milton, affected taxpayers have until May 2025 to file returns and make tax payments.

09/15/2023

IR-2023-169, Sept. 14, 2023 — Amid rising concerns about a flood of improper Employee Retention Credit claims, the Internal Revenue Service today announced an immediate moratorium through at least the end of the year on processing new claims for the pandemic-era relief program to protect honest sm...

05/30/2023

02/14/2022

The inventory of unprocessed returns and related correspondence was provided by the IRS’s taxpayer advocate service to the tax-writing committees in Congress. The Treasury Department, the IRS’s parent agency, warned in January that it expected its response to be subpar this year.

02/02/2022

For most Americans, retiring early is one of the worst financial mistakes that they'll end up regretting, according to a Harvard economist. The reason, he says, is simple: People are bad at saving money.

01/31/2022

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_flp0GxpM-kJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/01/28/irs-backlog-taxpayer-notices/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

The IRS is so swamped it's already halting notices, just three days into tax season.

01/11/2022

The Internal Revenue Service cautioned it is still working on “prior-year individual tax returns that have not been fully processed.”

07/15/2021

The US Small Business Administration has published a database of the more than 100,000 approved grants from the $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund.

07/01/2021

Agriculture has never been an industry known for its cushy margins. With the recent legalization of recreational cannabis in New York, however, there are many interested parties hoping to get in on their share of the harvest. But for Amy and Gail Hepworth of Hempire State Growers, interest in cannab...

06/30/2021

https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/in-depth/lifestyle/2021/06/30/hudson-valley-future-farming-female/7608781002/?fbclid=IwAR3SAxdKlzeWw0a6VWHidddYQN4_nbj5kaU-5YvGdGSQECV5k0_dUiKx9wk

Chances are good that a lot of the produce sold at local farmer’s markets was grown by a woman-owned farm in the mid-Hudson Valley, including these.

04/28/2021

Some refunds delayed as IRS holds 29 million returns for manual processing: The IRS Taxpayer Advocate's Office reported that the agency is holding on to about 29 million returns for manual processing, which will have the effect of delaying refunds across the country.

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