Why Now Might Be a Good Time for a Gift
The current federal gift tax regime is favorable by historical standards. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) significantly increased the unified exemption for 2018 through 2025 with annual inflation [...]
The current federal gift tax regime is favorable by historical standards. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) significantly increased the unified exemption for 2018 through 2025 with annual inflation [...]
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) has long been a valuable tax break for families with qualifying children. Whether you’re new to claiming the credit or you’ve benefited from it [...]
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) significantly increased the unified federal estate and gift tax exemption through the end of 2025. However, for 2026, it's currently scheduled to [...]
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) brought a significant, albeit delayed, change to the tax treatment of research and experimentation (R&E) costs under Internal Revenue Code Section 174. After [...]
Let’s say you have an unincorporated sideline activity that you consider a business. Perhaps you offer photography services, create custom artwork or sell handmade items online. Will the IRS agree [...]
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) dramatically increased the unified federal gift and estate tax exemption from $5.49 million in 2017 to $13.61 million in 2024. If you're married, [...]
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) made sweeping changes to the federal tax rules for individual taxpayers. Many of these provisions are scheduled to expire at the end of [...]
Buckle up, America: Major tax changes are on the horizon. The reason has to do with tax law and the upcoming elections. Our current situation The Tax Cuts and [...]
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) included good news for taxpayers that use cars, SUVs, pickups and vans for business purposes. Specifically, it permanently liberalized the Section 179 first-year depreciation [...]
Let’s say you plan to use a C corporation to operate a newly acquired business or you have an existing C corporation that needs more capital. You should know that the [...]
Interest rates rise and fall periodically, but the tax rules for deducting interest expenses remain the same — unless Congress changes them. Generally, the current rules have been in place [...]
Under tax law, businesses can generally deduct advertising and marketing expenses that help keep existing customers and bring in new ones. This valuable tax deduction can help businesses cut [...]
The federal income tax treatment of business-related meal and entertainment expenses has been a moving target the last few years. If you're confused about what rules currently apply, you're not [...]
Seniors who must take withdrawals from their IRAs may be able to benefit from a special tax provision for qualified charitable distributions (QCDs). Briefly stated, this provision allows people in [...]
First the bad news: Despite passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) is still in place. But there's some good news: The [...]