Federal Judge Blocks Overtime Rule An employee’s exempt status is based on duties performed, not wages paid. A U.S. District Judge issued a nationwide injunction stopping implementation of the Department of Labor’s rule on overtime pay for exempt employees. It was set to take effect on December 1. According to the Washington Times, the judge ruled:… Continue Reading
Archives for 2016
Professional CPA Services Come to Paynesville
Professional CPA Services Come to Paynesville. Expansion increases access, offers flexibility to new and existing clients. Many Paynesville area businesses and families have received tax, bookkeeping, payroll, auditing, attestation, estate, and financial planning services from Christianson CPA for nearly 30 years. More and more business gets conducted remotely and services are being delivered in “the… Continue Reading
USDA REAP Funding: A Golden Opportunity for Rural Businesses
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it would be investing more than $300 million to help roughly 400 small businesses across the U.S. make energy efficiency and other improvements to their operations. Christianson helped seven of our clients get nearly $1.8 million of these funds for improvements at their facilities,… Continue Reading
Ethanol and the Oil Spill Tax
Using natural gasoline as an ethanol denaturant may trigger liability for a quarterly excise tax to the IRS known as the Oil Spill Tax or the OSLT. If your ethanol plant is using natural gasoline as a denaturant, you may be required to pay a quarterly excise tax to the IRS on it. Known as the… Continue Reading
Tax Tip Tuesday: The Individual Tax Filing Deadline
As part of our new Twitter launch, we are proud to bring you our first installment of Tax Tip Tuesday! Tax Tip Tuesday provides you with tax tips, news, and other knowledge designed to help you stay up to date with the latest developments in the tax world. Sarah Snyder, Christianson CPA Tax Department Supervisor,… Continue Reading
Follow @ChristiansonCPA on Twitter!
Christianson CPA has a Twitter account (@ChristiansonCPA)! John Christianson, primary partner at Christianson CPAs, was there at the launch of our Twitter account last week and recognized our Twitter presence as “the newest way to inform our clients.” He, along with everyone here at Christianson CPAs, is enthusiastic about getting on board with this exciting… Continue Reading
