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Putting Together Your Tax
Information: The “Short
List” for Businesses and
Individuals
For smooth and thorough preparation of your tax returns, collect the following information for your accountant — and please be careful not to throw away any tax documents you get in the mail! |
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Businesses
- Year-end bank reconciliations.
- Year-end bank statements.
- Physical inventory records with costing, if applicable.
- W-3, W-2s and 940
- Year-end commercial loan statements.
- Invoices for new equipment purchases made during the year.
- Loan documents for new loans.
- List of bad debt write-offs.
- Broker statements, if the business has investments.
Individuals
- W-2s
- 1099s as follows:
1. 1099-B, Proceeds from sale of stock.
2. 1099-INT, Interest income.
3. 1099-R, Pension distributions.
4. 1099-G, Unemployment compensation.
5. 1099-DIV, Dividend income.
6. 1098, Mortgage interest expense.
- K-1s from other businesses.
- Contributions — cash and non-cash.
- Tax estimates — federal, state and local.
- Child/day care information.
- Medical expenses as follows:
1. Health insurance premiums.
2. Payments to doctors, dentists & hospitals.
3. Prescription drug expenses.
- Miscellaneous deductions as follows:
1. Safe deposit box fees.
2. Investment expenses.
3. Unreimbursed business expenses.
- Changes that occurred during the year,
i.e., new baby, change in marital status, or
purchase of new home.
- Settlement sheets from purchases and/or sales
of property.
- Affordable Care Act Tax Forms (1095A, 1095B & 1095C)
- 1099-NEC - Non-employee Compensation
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