The Complete Client Guide to S Corporations: Benefits, Risks, Compliance, and Common Mistakes
By Jessica Irving Marschall, CPA Marschall Accounting Services, LLC August 11, 2026 Choosing to operate as an S corporation can be one of the most valuable tax planning decisions available to a closely held business owner. When the structure is used correctly, it can provide liability separation, pass-through taxation, meaningful payroll tax planning opportunities, and […]
Read MoreLifting the Bottom of the K: Bringing High-Level Tax Strategy to Fredericksburg Small Businesses
By Jessica Irving Marschall, CPA, President and CEO, Marschall Accounting Services, LLC July 14, 2026 Marschall Accounting Services, LLC has spent years delivering sophisticated tax advisory services to clients throughout the country, with a significant concentration of clients in high-tax states such as New York, Illinois, and California. We have now expanded our practice with […]
Read MoreThe Arithmetic of 2032
Retirement & Fiscal Policy Social Security is neither a fraud nor a mystery. It is a math problem with a known deadline, a short list of workable levers, and a narrowing window in which to pull them. Jessica Marschall, CPA · Marschall Accounting Services, LLC · July 2026 In our tax practice, the question of […]
Read MoreBuilding the Next Generation of CPAs: AI, the Pipeline, and the Case for Calling Us Professionals
Perspectives on the Profession Building the Next Generation of CPAs: AI, the Pipeline, and the Case for Calling Us Professionals By Jessica Irving Marschall, CPA June 17th, 2026 The accounting profession is facing a talent shortage that, by most honest accounts, has reached a crisis stage. Writing in The CPA Journal, observers no longer describe […]
Read MoreExpatriate Tax for US Taxpayers Living Abroad
CLIENT ADVISORY A planning overview, with country sections for Canada, Costa Rica, Ireland, Colombia, and Spain Jessica Irving Marschall, CPA June 4th, 2026 Why this conversation is happening now US clients are increasingly asking what it would take to live, work, and possibly hold citizenship in another country. Some are responding to political and economic […]
Read MoreExpensing Versus Capitalization for Rental Property: A Schedule E Primer for Landlords
Jessica I. Marschall, CPA, ISA AM | Marschall Accounting Services, LLC May 2026 Few questions on a rental property tax return generate more confusion, and more audit exposure, than whether a given expenditure should be deducted in full in the current year or capitalized and recovered through depreciation over the property’s useful life. The dollar […]
Read MoreThe R&D Tax Credit and the R&D Deduction
Two Incentives, One Compliance Discipline By Jessica Irving Marschall, CPA May 2026 For more than four decades, federal tax law has offered businesses two separate and distinct incentives for investing in research. The first is the credit for increasing research activities under Internal Revenue Code Section 41, commonly called the R&D tax credit. The second […]
Read MoreThe Federal Reclassification of Accounting Misses the Mark: Why CPAs Are, and Have Always Been, Professionals
By Jessica Irving Marschall, CPA, ISA AM President and CEO, The Green Mission Inc., GM-ESG, and Probity Appraisal Group President and CEO, Marschall Accounting Services LLC May 8th, 2026 In early May 2026, the U.S. Department of Education issued final regulations implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act provisions governing federal graduate student loan eligibility, […]
Read MoreWhy We Expanded Our Tax Advisory Services at MAS LLC
By Jessica Irving Marschall, CPA April 28th, 2026 MAS LLC | www.MarschallTax.com Like most CPAs serving small businesses, we have been underwater with demand for tax advisory services. Our specific client base, small businesses (whether pass-through entities or small C corps) and the individuals running them, sits in a difficult middle space. The excellent larger […]
Read MoreREAL ESTATE INVESTMENT STRATEGY
A Practical Tax Guide for Individual and Small Business Clients By Jessica Irving Marschall, CPA, ISA AM President and CEO, MAS LLC | The Green Mission Inc. | GM-ESG | Probity Appraisal Group April 2026 Introduction Real estate has long served as one of the most powerful wealth-building vehicles available to individual investors and small […]
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