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TaxInformationReporting.com contributors are proven experts. Each professional has hundreds of seminars, webinars and publications under their belt; attesting to their skill as teachers, and to their experience in tax compliance and regulatory law. Take a closer look:
Steven D. Mercatante, Esq.
Steven Mercatante is the owner and founder of TaxInformationReporting.com. He is a nationally recognized leader in tax reporting education and consulting on specialized compliance issues. He regularly conducts on-site consultation for corporate clients and has led countless seminars and webinars for Balance Consulting, The Accounts Payable Network and Accounts Payable Now and Tomorrow. He has spoke at events such as the 2008 Tax Information Reporting & AP Leadership Conference, US Bank's 2010 Financial Supply Chain Conference, Convey Compliance System's 2010 C2 Conference, and many more such events. Steven is also a published author, with numerous articles published on tax and financial law including a law review article entitled The Deregulation of Usury Ceilings, Rise of Easy Credit, and Increasing Consumer Debt published in March of 2008 with the South Dakota Law Review.
Prior to specializing in regulatory law Steven’s legal experience concentrated on corporate and transactional matters, civil litigation, and probate and estate matters. He received his Juris Doctor from the Michigan State University College of Law, graduating with a certificate in International Law and earning experience during an internship at Allen & Overy’s office in Rome, Italy. Before law school he was a high school social science teacher and graduated with a B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan as well as a Teaching Certificate from Eastern Michigan University. He is an active member of the State Bar of Michigan.
Denise M. Johnson, Esq.
Denise is an expert on information reporting and sales and use tax. Her speaking engagements on tax compliance and other regulatory maters have taken her across the United States. She has conducted on site consultation for corporate clients and led countless seminars and webinars for Balance Consulting, The Accounts Payable Network and Accounts Payable Now and Tomorrow. She also spoke at the 2008 and 2007 Tax Information Reporting & AP Leadership Conference, the 2007 Thompson Tax & Accounting eComply 1099 User Conference and the 2006 IOMA Accounts Payable Conference & Expo. Denise was a contributing author to the 2008 and 2007 California Payroll Guide and the 2008 Ohio Payroll Guide.
Prior to specializing in tax law Denise’s professional experience concentrated on employee benefit plan administration and compliance, probate and estate matters, general civil litigation and corporate law. Denise received her Juris Doctor from The Thomas M. Cooley Law School and is an LLM candidate at the Wayne State University Law School. Before law school she graduated with a B.S. from Eastern Michigan University.
The depth of knowledge and experience covered by Steven and Denise’s work reaches across the spectrum of information reporting and compliance matters. Both have created the curriculum for and taught full day and multiple day seminars and webinars on such topics as:
- Collecting and Confirming Payee Information
- Payee Statements, IRS Filing and Corrections
- The IRS TIN Matching Program
- B-Notices
- Proposed Penalty Notices
- Non Resident Alien Reporting
- Non Resident Alien Reporting in Higher Education
- Using and Interpreting TIN’s
- Documentation required for Tax Purposes
- Non Qualified Deferred Compensation
- Fringe Benefits
- Unclaimed Property and Escheatment
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- Payments to Board of Directors
- LLC’s and the Filing implications of other Business Entities
- Middleman Regulations
- Attorney Reporting
- OFAC
- IRS FIRE system
- All Forms 1099
- IRS Fines and Compliance
- Recommended Compliance Policies and Procedures
- Reporting for State and Local Jurisdictions
- Worker Classification
- New Hire Contractor Reporting
- Tax Withholding and Reporting
- Writing an Accounts Payable Policies and Procedures Manual
- Reporting P-Card Payments
- Sales and Use Tax Compliance
Our TIR Answer Center tax compliance support is provided in response to questions you send to TaxInformationReporting.com. Questions must be submitted via a form provided on our website – we will not respond to email queries. This process allows us to record the Q&A and to add it to our database. This is done for the benefit of all our subscribers. The overwhelming majority of the time you submit a query we will respond upon the same day, however it may take up to two business days for you to receive a response.
Our TIR Answer Center support service only is for questions related to payments that may be tax reportable on Forms 1099, Form W-2, and Form 1042-S. We limit the TIR Answer Center service to questions for which answers or guidance can be provided in less than 30 minutes. Questions we receive that require more than 30 minutes time of research, analysis and discussion to answer, or questions that involve providing legal analysis and guidance of highly specific facts and circumstances will not be answered. Instead, we will inform you as to why we cannot answer the question and offer you the opportunity to rephrase so we can provide a more general response or the opportunity to enter into a separate contract where we will provide more specific and individualized consulting services.