Protect Your Home-Office Deduction from Spouse & Second Business
The home-office deduction can produce substantial tax savings, especially when it converts what would otherwise be commuting miles into deductible business mileage. But many business owners accidentally put this valuable deduction at risk. If you use your home office for more than one purpose, each use must qualify under the tax rules. A single non-qualifying […]
How to Find Your 2026 Section 199A Deduction with Multiple Businesses
If you own more than one business, you may be missing out on a larger Section 199A deduction without even realizing it. The Section 199A deduction allows many owners of sole proprietorships, partnerships, and S corporations to deduct up to 20 percent of their qualified business income. Even better, Congress has now made this deduction […]
Four Tactics That Turn Suspended Passive Losses into Tax Deductions
If you own rental real estate, you may have passive losses that have been suspended for years. Although you cannot currently deduct these losses, they are not lost forever. With proper planning, you may be able to unlock them and use them to reduce your taxes. One common way to free suspended passive losses is […]
The Home-Office Deduction for Three Square Feet
Many business owners assume they cannot claim a home-office deduction because their home is too small. In fact, the tax law says otherwise. A home office does not have to be an entire room. If you use a clearly defined area of your home exclusively for business, you may qualify for the deduction—even if that […]
Tool for Your Use: Updated 2026 Section 199A Calculator
Beginning in 2026, the Section 199A qualified business income deduction becomes a permanent part of tax planning for pass-through business owners. This deduction can allow owners of sole proprietorships, partnerships, S corporations, and certain other pass-through businesses to deduct up to 20 percent of their qualified business income. C corporations do not qualify. The 2026 […]
ERC Refund in 2026: One Great Way to Handle It
If your business receives an Employee Retention Credit (ERC) refund in 2026 for wages paid in 2020 or 2021, you may have an important tax planning opportunity. Many businesses filed ERC claims years after they filed their original income tax returns. Because the IRS took so long to process many claims, some refunds are only […]
How to Convert Your S Corporation into a Tax-Favored QSBC
Let’s turn our attention to an increasingly valuable tax planning opportunity involving qualified small business corporation (QSBC) stock, especially in light of recent law changes. QSBCs—essentially, certain qualifying C corporations—offer powerful tax advantages. Most notably, you may be able to exclude up to 100 percent of the gain on the sale of QSBC stock if […]
Section 179 or Bonus Depreciation: What’s Best After OBBBA?
Recent tax law changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act created powerful opportunities to write off business assets faster than ever. You now face an important decision: should you use Section 179 expensing or 100 percent bonus depreciation? The law restored 100 percent bonus depreciation for qualifying assets placed in service after January 19, […]
Lawyer Burned by Fake AI Tax Cases—Don’t Be Next
Artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage today. AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity are being used for everything, including legal research. But beware! AI is not perfect. It’s not even intelligent. AI doesn’t think like a human, and it has no internal fact-checker. It produces new content by analyzing vast amounts of […]