Reporting on a Cash Basis
This simple equation is made only slightly more flexible by the recognition that cash may be received but not processed during the same payment period. This is called a constructive receipt of funds.
Consider a scenario in which your company sells a line of products and receives a check from the purchaser just before the year-end holidays. Even if that check isn't deposited until the new year begins, that payment is regarded as constructively received during the old year.
So, you pay the tax on that transaction just as if you'd actually processed the check before the ball dropped in Times Square . Since you're not in charge of accounting, you don't need to worry about the details here. But it's good for you to at least be familiar with this accounting principle
and the term “constructive receipt.”
Some companies attempt to pay rent charges for the upcoming year, to gain the expense deduction for those charges in the current year. The IRS says no deal. Rent is an expense incurred as the rental property is used, not in advance. However, a court case has offered a different resolution for insurance prepayments: Those may be deducted during the previous year. Go figure! Cash Accounting Limitations Cash basis accounting can be used if a company meets the numerous requirements set by the IRS.
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Professional offices or practices—such as doctors, lawyers, and accountants—are exempt, if all stock is owned directly or indirectly by the employees. Other businesses with gross receipts of $5 million or less can also take advantage of cash accounting.
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