Suggested Job Related Income Tax Deductions for Nurses

By: Reynaldo L. Padilla, CPA
Managing Partner, Padilla & Company, LLP

Consider this scenario: You are a nurse and new to the United States.  You will be filing your first, second or third year income tax return but have no idea of what tax deductions you can avail of.  So you decide to seek professional help, but don’t know how and who to approach. You seek this professional help through referrers and you find three possible sources for help as follows:

H & R Block, an accountant with local education, or a CPA from the Philippines who has learned to prepare income tax returns but has no formal schooling in the USA, or a CPA licensed to practice in the State where you work as a Nurse.  Now you are baffled as to who to choose.

“Not Business as Usual” – NYC Small Business Services Offers Opportunities for Minority and Women Businesses

By James Gesmundo, Viola Binua and Gil Vendiola

The playing field in doing business with the city government has been leveled for Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE). The City has driven programs and initiatives to engage with MWBEs, and they certainly has oiled up the gears this time.

The Managing an Accounting Practice (MAP) Committee of the Queens/Brooklyn Chapter of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) thru minority-owned CPA firms Padilla and Company, LLP; and Dadia Valles Vendiola, LLP organized a breakfast forum entitled “Business Opportunities for the Small Firms” last October 15. Eighteen professionals from the field of accounting and audit attended the well-received forum.