The IRS has been emphasizing the necessity of contemporaneous documentation for decades, but this recent motion for summary judgment against Kyocera could mark a potential shift towards a stricter application of their long-standing policy. The direction seems clear—reliance on after-the-fact interviews without supporting documents is increasingly untenable.
The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 passed in the House by a vote of 357 to 70 on Wednesday. The bill will help restore much of the Covid-Era Child Tax Credit and will rewrite part of the Trump-Era change to R&D Taxes that had made domestic R&D costs prohibitively expensive for innovative American companies. Whether the Senate approves the bill remains up in the air.
Starting with the 2023 tax year, a qualified small business may elect to claim up to $500,000 of its credit for increasing research activities as a payroll tax credit. Previously, taxpayers could only claim up to $250,000.
