Create Deductions: Use Your Vacation Home for Business Lodging

Here’s good news: the properly used business vacation home or condo does not suffer from • the vacation-home rules,• the passive-loss rules, or• the entertainment-facility rules. In these days of COVID-19, you may have solid reasons to use your vacation home or condo...

Seven Insights into PPP Loan Forgiveness for the Self-Employed

When you are self-employed with no employees, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is designed to help you get through this pandemic. If you now have your PPP funds, we have identified seven insights for you.   1. New Law, Enacted June 5, 2020, Creates Easier...

Use Your Business to Maximize Charitable Donations

Giving to your church, school, or other 501(c)(3) charity is a noble act no matter how you choose to give. But for the purposes of tax savings, some forms of giving are much more beneficial to you than are others. As a business owner, you can use some business...

Tax Loophole Allows Tax-Free COVID-19 Payments to Employees

After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Congress added a little-known tax provision to the tax law. This little-known tax code provision exempts certain payments from taxation during a disaster or terrorist attack. President Donald Trump’s national...

Should You Operate Your Business as a Partnership?

Changes included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) force you and other small-business owners to reconsider whether a new venture should be conducted as a pass-through entity or as a C corporation. Pass-through entities include partnerships and multi-member LLCs that...