The Family Business Alliance Presents Tax Talk: The Impact on You & Your Business on April 26 at Wilkes University and Penn State Worthington Scranton

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WILKES-BARRE, PA (04/05/2018) Contact Information: Gabrielle D'Amico, director of communicatoins, gabrielle.damico@wilkes.edu, 570-408-4510

The Family Business Alliance of Wilkes University and Penn State Worthington Scranton presents Tax Talk: The Impact on You & Your Business on April 26. The workshop will cover the Tax Cutes and Jobs Act legislation, its simplification of taxes and its implications. The event is free, but registration is required.

The workshop will be presented at two locations. The morning location is at Wilkes University, Henry Student Center, Miller Room, Second Floor, 84 W. South St., Wilkes-Barre. Registration is at 8 a.m. and the workshop from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.

The afternoon location is Penn State Worthington Scranton, Dawson Building, Room 10, Campus Drive, Dunmore. Registration is at 11:30 a.m. and the workshop from noon to 1 p.m.

Edward Kollar, CPA and firm director, and Kristyn Lartz, CPA, MBA, Senior Manager, at Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP, will co-present the workshop. They will talk about the limitations on the deductibility of business interest, special deductions for businesses conducted via pass-through entities, and changes to the rules on expensing and depreciating asset purchases will complicate this process. The takeaways from the presentation will be business-entity provisions, business tax provisions, individual tax provisions and the effect on state income taxes.

For more information and to register, visit www.wilkes.edu/FBA or contact Sue Reilly, executive director of the Family Business Alliance, at (570) 408-2120 or susan.reilly@wilkes.edu.

About Wilkes University:

Wilkes University is an independent institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence through mentoring in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. Founded in 1933, the university is on a mission to create one of the great small universities, offering all of the programs, activities and opportunities of a large, research university in the intimate, caring and mentoring environment of a small, liberal arts college, at a cost that is increasingly competitive with public universities. The Economist named Wilkes 25th in the nation for the value of its education for graduates. In addition to 43 bachelor's degree programs, Wilkes offers 25 master's degree programs and five doctoral/terminal degree programs, including the doctor of philosophy in nursing, doctor of nursing practice, doctor of education, doctor of pharmacy, and master of fine arts in creative writing. Learn more at www.wilkes.edu.