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IRS Shuts Down Direct File Program: What Small Business Owners Need to Know
The IRS has shut down its Direct File program, citing high costs and low use. Learn what this means for Florida small business owners and how Belshaw Accounting can help.

Paul Belshaw
Nov 123 min read


The Coming Crypto Chaos: What the New 1099-DA Means for Taxpayers
🚨 Billions of New 1099s Are Coming — Here’s What You Need to Know About the 1099-DA🚨 Major Shift Is Coming for Crypto Investors and Taxpayers With the next tax season rapidly approaching, the IRS is preparing to roll out one of the biggest reporting changes in decades.Starting January 2026 , the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will begin requiring Form 1099-DA for digital asset transactions and estimates suggest that up to 8 billion of these forms will be issued.Yes, y

Paul Belshaw
Nov 43 min read


IRS Audits Meet AI: What OBBB Just Changed
Two things tend to make people nervous: 😱 IRS audits 🤖 Artificial Intelligence And now… they’ve joined forces. For decades, the IRS has used something called the DIF (Discriminant Index Function) . Every tax return gets a DIF score — and the higher your score, the higher your chance of being audited. DIF compares your numbers to the “norms” for taxpayers like you. In many ways, that was the IRS’s first version of AI — a rules-based system built on patterns and probabilities

Paul Belshaw
Oct 102 min read
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