IRS Announces Tax Relief for California Taxpayers Affected by Winter Storms

By Allison Katz

The IRS announced comprehensive tax relief provisions for taxpayers affected by California’s winter storms. These relief provisions provide an extended due date to May 15, 2023, for disaster-affected taxpayers to file returns. Relief provisions include: Additionally, eligible taxpayers will have until May 15 to make 2022 contributions to their IRAs and health savings accounts. As…

How ERP Helps With the Processes of Inventory Management

By Krysten Hambrook

In part one of our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) series, we outlined some common inventory challenges and how to solve them by upgrading to an ERP inventory management system. In this next part, we’re going to take a deep dive into the inventory control ecosystem, and how a corporate ERP system can affect the processes…

6 Signs You Are Outgrowing QuickBooks 

By Allison Katz

How do you know when your company has grown beyond QuickBooks’ capabilities? Let’s cover the key areas that will help you make an educated decision on when QuickBooks is too small for your growing organization. QuickBooks is one of the world’s most well-known and widely used accounting software solutions that can help turn a simple…

Tax-Exempt Bond Financing for Affordable Housing

By Allison Katz

State and local governments, based on volume caps established by the federal government, are able to issue tax-exempt housing bonds. The proceeds of these bonds are used to finance mortgages for, among other uses, the production of affordable housing. Tax-exempt bonds are those where the interest paid to the bondholders is exempt from federal income…

What We’re ERC’ing With the Employee Retention Credit

By Allison Katz

As we begin 2023, we are still seeing many businesses that have not yet claimed the employee retention credit (“ERC”), and the potential benefit of this credit has attracted many inexperienced service providers making exaggerated promises in exchange for outsize contingency fees. In fact, these service providers have become so prevalent that the IRS, in…

The Rise of Blockchain Games

By Allison Katz

When you hear the word blockchain, naturally, cryptocurrency comes to mind. Its decentralized approach keeps transactions uniform across the entire network, preventing tampering. However, developers are now finding ways to integrate blockchain technology within the games, bringing once-in-game-only currency to the real world. Typically, in-game currency held no value other than to the game in…

O’Connor & Drew Joins Its Practice with Withum

By Arundhati Kashyap

On January 1, 2023, O’Connor & Drew, PC, a public accounting, tax and business advisory firm headquartered in Braintree, MA, today announced it joined its practice with WithumSmith+Brown, PC (Withum), a nationally recognized CPA and advisory firm with 20 offices and annual revenue of $450M, ranking in the top 25 firms in the country. O’Connor…

Top Insights of 2022

By Krysten Hambrook

Check out Withum’s most read insights from this past year including topics like Power Platform Licensing, COVID Relief Programs, Supply Chain Disruptions, Year-End Planning and more. Top Insights of 2022

Kelsey Thomas Appointed to the Upstate Capital Association of NY

By Arundhati Kashyap

Withum is proud to share that Kelsey Thomas, Senior Manager of Transaction Advisory, was appointed to serve as a board member of the Upstate Capital Association of NY. The Upstate Capital Association of NY (the “Association”) is a prominent network for PE investors, M&A professionals, venture capitalists, business owners and CEOs and entrepreneurs whose goal…