Lancaster Accounting and Tax Services
is dedicated to building meaningful
client relationships by providing quality and cost-effective solutions for accounting and tax services for not for profit organizations and small business.

How We’re Different

With over ten years experience in public accounting, Lancaster Accounting and Tax Services’ Founder, Angela Dussault, CPA strives to build long term relationships with each one of her clients.

Through personalized services tailored for not for profit organizations and small businesses, Angela goes the extra mile to ensure clients are satisfied and on a solid financial footing.

OUR SERVICES

Lancaster Accounting & Tax Service is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Government Audit Quality Center, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Not-for Profit Section, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Tax Section, and the the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Peer Review program.

Click here to download a copy of the report on the Firm’s System of Quality Control.

Accounting

  • Small Business Accounting

  • QuickBooks Services

  • Sage, Fund EZ, Yardi, and Quicken

  • Business Consulting

  • Remote Service Option with Secure File Transfer Available for all Accounting Services

Audit and Attestation

  • Audit, Review, and Compilation

  • Single Audit

  • Yellow Book Audit

  • Employee Benefit Plan Audits

  • Revenue Recognition and lease accounting

  • Remote Service Option with Secure File Transfer Available for all Audit and Attestation Services

Tax Preparation

  • Business Tax Preparation

  • Individual Tax Preparation

  • Tax Consulting

  • Sales Tax

  • 1099 Preparation

  • Payroll Tax Returns

  • Remote Service Option with Secure File Transfer Available for all Tax Services

2024 Tax Season

  • Single and Married Filing Separate: $14,600

    Married Filing Joint and Qualified Widower: $29,200

    Head of Household: $21,900

  • Beginning on Jan. 1, 2024, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be:

    67 cents per mile driven for business use,

    30 cents per mile for imputed depreciation

    21 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes for qualified active-duty members of the Armed Forces

    14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations

    $59/$79 - M&IE Daily Rates (US/Non-Continental)

  • From September to December 2024, NYS DOL will send DocuSign emails to New Yorkers who will receive 1099-G tax forms for tax year 2024 The DocuSign email will provide information about accessing the 2024 1099-G tax form, which will become available in January 2025.

  • New Energy Home Efficient Credit Annual Limitation $1,200 per year, per tax payer

    Annual limits for the following improvements: Windows and skylights $600 per year $250 per exterior doors up to $500 total for all exterior doors

    $2,000 per year for heat pumps, water heaters, biomass stoves and boilers

    Up to $150 credit for a home energy audit

    Qualifying energy-efficiency improvements

    Residential clean energy tax credit 30% of the costs of new, qualified clean energy property.

    Qualified expenses include the following items:

    • Solar electric panels

    • Solar water heaters

    • Fuel cells (limited to $500 per 0.5 kilowatt of capacity)24

    • Wind turbines

    • Geothermal heat pumps

    • Battery storage technology

  • https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/publications/sales/pub750.pdf

  • https://www.businessexpress.ny.gov/app/answers/cms/a_id/2058/

  • Form 1099 NEC is due to the recipient and the IRS by January 31, 2025

    Did you pay at least $600 in

    1. Services performed by someone who is not your employee?

    2. Payments to an attorney?

    3. Cash payments for fish (or other aquatic life) you purchase from anyone engaged in the trade or business of catching fish?

  • Form 1099 MISC is due to the recipient by January 31, 2025 and February 15, 2025 for attorneys and Substitute dividends and tax-exempt interest payments reportable by brokers

    Paper filed Form 1099 MISC is due to the IRS by February 28, 2025 Electronically filed Form 1099 MISC is due to the IRS on March 1, 2025

    Did you pay at least $600 in

    1. Rents?

    2. Prizes and awards?

    3. Other income payments?

    4. Generally, the cash paid from a notional principal contract to an individual, partnership, or estate?

    5. Any fishing boat proceeds?

    6. Medical and health care payments?

    7. Crop insurance proceeds?

    8. Payments to an attorney?

    9. Section 409A deferrals?

    10. Nonqualified deferred compensation?

Are you ready for the 2024 tax season?

Download your complementary 2024 tax organizer below!

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Need Help with accounting or taxes? Fill out the form to schedule your appointment today or contact us directly at (716) 717-0135 or info@cpanow.net

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