The straight line

The following is a reprint of an article from our summer 2015 newsletter. We are seeing more use of non-qualified patronage from the regional cooperatives. Treatment of these allocations varies from client to client, firm to firm, etc. Even our decision may change as we see the regionals indicate or demonstrate they intend to revolve...

While you have been dealing with un-cooperative weather this spring and early summer in your operations, we have been busy trying to better ourselves to service your accounting and tax needs. In early May, the Gardiner + Co. staff participated in our annual staff training event in Des Moines. We brought in outside speakers to...

Don’t get too excited, there’s no word yet. But, on May 13, 2019, an AICPA committee asked FASB to delay the private company implementation date of its new lease accounting standard, citing overload for private company financial statement preparers. In the meantime, we are continuing to research this topic, its implementation and canvas third-party software...

Our winter newsletter addressed interest deduction limitations under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Section 163(j). In general, the new section limits the deduction of business interest expense to the sum of the following: 1. Business interest income, plus 2. 30% of the adjusted taxable income, plus 3. Floor plan financing interest Your...

In mid-June the IRS released proposed regulations (156 funfilled pages) providing guidance to cooperatives and their patrons regarding the deduction for qualified business income (QBI) under section 199A(a) of the Code. This guidance also included specified agricultural and horticultural cooperatives (“specified cooperatives”) and their patrons regarding the deduction for domestic production activities under section 199A(g)...

The IRS recently released a proposed revenue procedure providing computational guidance on methods and appropriate sources of data for calculating W-2 wages for purposes of section 199A(g) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). The notice provides three methods for calculating W-2 wages, limiting the amount of the deduction available to agricultural and horticultural cooperatives to...