Articles By Joseph Smith @ Travel Tax
Joseph finished degrees in Accounting and Respiratory Therapy, and worked as a travel respiratory therapist before founding TravelTax and TravelTax Canada, a tax practice group catering to the travel healthcare professional and mobile professionals in other staffing segments. TravelTax is well known in the healthcare staffing industry and serves a substantial client base of domestic and international mobile professionals, and represents clients before the IRS, Canadian Revenue Agency and State Tax Agencies in audits and tax controversies. Joseph assists staffing agencies construct a compliant travel reimbursement policy and trains recruiters/staff to participate in the agency’s compliance process. Joseph is member of the NATHO tax compliance committee.
Education
AS Respiratory Therapy – Greenville Technical College
BA Accounting – Furman University
MA – Bible – Capital Bible Seminary
MS Taxation – Golden Gate University
Fellow: National Tax Practice Institute
Other:
NATHO Tax Compliance Committee
Adjunct Instructor in Taxation
Co-Founder, The Travelers Conference
Co-Author Highway Hypodermics
Last July, Congress passed a significant tax bill that has provisions benefiting the average traveler. We won’t go over all the details of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OB3 Tax
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Once Christmas and New Year’s holidays have passed and you have moved on from wondering where 2023 went, one of the first rituals you will embark on is your tax
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There are patients that we dread to care for. During report, we tactfully offer to take more patients, a more critical patient, or even offer to float to another area
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As a traveler mobilizes from assignment to assignment, they will occasionally have mail sent directly to one of the temporary travel nurse mailing addresses instead of having it forwarded from
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As I write this piece, it is a few weeks from Christmas and I’m thinking about the Holidays. Lurking on the other side of the festivities is another tax season.
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A traveler will eventually encounter the “50-Mile Rule” during conversations with recruiters or fellow travelers. The rule is often discussed as an accepted law of traveling and defended with evangelistic
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