Percentage of questions on the paper FAFSA that directly mention income, taxes, or a line from a tax return.
Training Solutions for Colleges & Associations
We are pleased to announce that our new, recorded, on-demand tax training for academic year 2022-23 is now available to higher education institutions, and we are scheduling live training for colleges and state financial aid associations now.
Our recorded training is available at a low per-person cost to all higher education institutions.
Both of our curricula, FM Verification and Conflicting Information and Business, Real Estate, and Trust Tax Returns are available on-demand, or as live programming by webinar or in-person.
If you’d like to arrange training for your staff or for members of your state association, please contact Robert Weinerman.
Available Training Tracks
FM Verification and Conflicting Information
This track covers the tax-related information that the Department of Education expects financial aid professionals to understand.
It discusses verification, conflicting information resolution, and advanced issues such as splitting an individual’s tax information out of a joint tax return and properly reporting income earned from work.
Topics covered include:
- Acceptable documentation for selected students
- Verifying non-filers
- Who is required to file a tax return?
- Verifying tax filers
- Filing status
- Amended and changed tax returns
- IRS – FAFSA marital status mismatches
- Income adjustment professional judgment
- Income earned from work
- Unique issues in the 2020 tax code
Business, Real Estate, and Trust Tax Returns
After completing this track, aid officers will be able to review most business, real estate, and trust tax returns to determine the amount of income these entities might be able to provide their owners and beneficiaries during the academic year.
This program is geared at aid officers working in schools that go beyond the federal methodology as they determine eligibility for their institutional funds, and officers interested in becoming strong candidates for jobs at these institutions.
Topics covered include:
- What can we learn from Business Tax Returns?
- Basic business expenses
- Depreciation, amortization, and depletion
- Schedule C
- Schedule E and Form 8825
- Introduction to pass-through entities
- Partnerships – Form 1065 and Schedule K-1 (Form 1065)
- S Corporations – Form 1120-S and Schedule K-1 (Form 1120-S)
- C Corporations – Form 1120
- Valuing businesses and real estate
- Trusts
- Need analysis challenges in 2022-23 (with 2020 as the base year)
Short Programs or Conference Sessions
The content in our FM Verification and Conflicting Information track can be broken into smaller pieces for clients who need targeted training and for delivery at in-person and virtual conferences. Please contact Robert Weinerman for up-to-date program information and pricing.
We are always interested in meeting the needs of the higher education community. If there is a specific training topic related to taxes or need analysis that you would like Iron Bridge Resources to offer, please let us know.
For More Information, Please Contact:
Robert Weinerman
Director of Training
robert@ironbridgeresources.com
617-733-0027