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Zinner & Co. is pleased to continue its support and sponsorship of the Magic of LightsTM, being held at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea, Ohio now through December 31st.

Bad things happen – that’s reality. How well and quickly your organization recovers is a matter of planning ahead and staying prepared. In this article we’ll discuss the 6 keys to properly preparing for a disaster.

For over 6 years, Zinner & Co. has committed its support to the mission of one of our clients, Michelle’s Wish Foundation.

Zinner & Co. client, The Cleveland Leadership Center, is currently accepting applications from individuals with ideas to improve Northeast Ohio to pitch at their annual Accelerate competition. In addition to the seed funding each finalist wins, the competition connects those with the ideas to key individuals who can help make their vision a reality. 

Zinner & Co. was pleased to sponsor the 27th Annual Epilepsy Association Gala on Friday, November 9, 2018. This year’s event was held at The Westin Cleveland Downtown and featured a night of entertainment that benefited the Epilepsy Association and the important work they do relating to epilepsy research and treatment.

New Study Shows Millennials / Gen Z are Still Interested in Accounting Careers

Data breaches have been in the news of late. They range from seemingly minor incidents to those which affected hundreds of thousands of customers at companies

On June 21, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in South Dakota vs. Wayfair (“Wayfair”).   The fallout of this decision will significantly change the way online vendors handle sales and use (“S&U”) tax for out-of-state consumers going forward.  It will, therefore, also affect online consumers.  Are you impacted!?

One Effect of the Recent Tax Reform on Not-for-Profit Organizations

By Howard J. Kass, CPA, CGMA, AEP®

As often as employers are maligned, there are times where they try to do the right thing for their employees.  To be fair, many times, an employer may take an action or incur an expense that benefits its employees, knowing that the employer will benefit by a tax deduction for incurring an expense.  In some cases, Congress encourages such behavior by explicitly permitting favorable tax treatment for certain programs.

One such case was a set of fringe benefits known as the “qualified transportation fringe” benefits that, in fact, received a double-barreled tax benefit for years, by virtue of Internal Revenue Code Section (IRC) 132(f)(5)(C).  Under that section, employers were allowed to take a deduction for, among other things, qualified parking fringe benefits that they provided to their employees. What, exactly, was a qualified parking fringe benefit?  Under IRC 132(f)(5)(C), “qualified parking” meant parking provided to an employee on or near the business premises of the employer, or on or near a location from which the employee commutes to work by transportation described in Code Sec. 132(f)(5)(A) (relating to “transit passes”), in a commuter highway vehicle, or by carpool

Zinner & Co. is a proud title sponsor of the Cleveland Play House production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” which runs now through May 6 at the Allen Theater.

Sponsoring this Tony Award-winning musical, is just one of the many ways Zinner & Co. gives back to the community and helps advance the strong performing arts culture found within Northeast Ohio.

A touching and cheeky coming-of-age comedy with a vivacious, improvised spelling bee, this production is a treat for all ages, as “Spelling Bee” focuses on six middle-school students, who take part in a cutthroat, high-stakes competition to prove they have what it takes to be worthy of a shot at "Nationals."