Have you procrastinated about setting up a tax-advantaged retirement plan for your small business? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. Still, this is not a good situation. You are paying income taxes that could easily be avoided. So consider setting up a plan to...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) likely requires that you rethink the tax strategies you were using on your vacant land investments. And the TCJA changes may be such that you have to rethink vacant land as an investment, at least for the years impacted by the TCJA....
If you are an “experienced” self-employed individual, you are entitled to some tax breaks that younger self-employed folks cannot claim. If you are self-employed, you have much to think about as you enter your senior years, and that includes retirement savings and...
The IRS recently issued new cryptocurrency guidance and is hot on your trail if you bought and sold cryptocurrency and didn’t report it on your tax return. Tax Basics Here are the tax basics. You’ll treat cryptocurrency as property for tax purposes: If you...
As with all financial transactions, divorce comes with tax consequences. And those consequences have changed for tax years 2018 and later thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). General Rule The general tax rule in a divorce is that you can divide up most...
Imagine this: you didn’t issue Form 1099s to your contractors. Now, the IRS is auditing your tax return, and the auditor claims you lose your deductions because you didn’t issue the Form 1099s. Is this correct? Tax Law No. IRS auditors often make this claim,...
