The Best Sole Proprietorship Retirement Plans to Reduce Your 2024 Tax Bill
Are you looking for ways to reduce your 2024 tax bill while securing your financial future? Setting up a self-employed retirement plan could be your solution—and it’s not too late! You have several options that can provide significant tax savings, including the following: SEP-IRA. Simple to set up and allows contributions of up to $69,000 […]
Inherited IRAs Critical IRS Updates for 2025
If you have inherited (or may someday inherit) an individual retirement account (IRA), the 2025 changes may significantly impact your tax planning. Key Updates RMD requirements. Starting in 2025, annual required minimum distributions (RMDs) are mandatory for most inherited IRAs. Failure to comply may result in penalties of up to 25 percent, reducible to 10 […]
Can Real Estate Professional Status Free Up Old Passive Losses?
Deducting your rental property tax losses against your other income is tricky, as you likely know. You have to get the tax law to treat you—say, a computer engineer—as a tax-code–defined real estate professional. Let’s say you get there. Does that status allow immediate use of suspended passive losses? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Here’s […]
Tax-Free Home Sale: When and Why You Need to Report to the IRS
You’re probably aware that when you sell your home, you may exclude up to $250,000 of your gain from tax if you’re unmarried (or married, filing separately) and $500,000 if you are married and file jointly. To claim the whole exclusion, you must have owned and lived in your home as your principal residence for […]
Are you a Real Estate Dealer or Investor?
If you buy and sell real estate, you need to know the difference between being classified for tax purposes as a real estate dealer versus a real estate investor. Real estate dealers are in the business of buying and selling real property—property is their inventory. Real estate investors own property primarily to earn income from […]
2024 Year-End Strategies for Crypto Investors
If you’re in the market for a new car, the federal government would like you to purchase an electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid EV (PHEV). In 2022, Congress enacted the Inflation Reduction Act, which revamped and expanded tax credits for EVs purchased during 2023 and later. As a result of the new law, there […]
2024 Year-End Strategies for Crypto Investors
2024 has been a great year for investors in cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin reaching all-time highs. With high profits can come high taxes. Fortunately, there are several strategies you can employ before year-end to reduce your 2024 crypto taxes. If you invested only in Bitcoin, you may not have any crypto losses. But you could have […]
Game On: TCJA Winners and Losers – Business on the Chopping Block
Prepare for tax changes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has been part of our tax landscape for nearly seven years, shaping how businesses and individuals plan their finances. As we approach the end of 2025, when many key provisions expire, here are some critical changes that could affect you and your business. Expiring […]
2024 Last-Minute Year-End Tax Strategies For your Stock Portfolio
When you take advantage of the tax code’s offset game, your stock market portfolio can represent a little gold mine of opportunities to reduce your 2024 income taxes. The tax code contains the basic rules for this game, and once you know the rules, you can apply the correct strategies. Here’s the gist: Avoid the […]
2024 Last-Minute Vechicle Purchases to save on Taxes
Here’s an easy question: Do you need more 2024 tax deductions? If the answer is yes, continue reading. Next easy question: Do you need a replacement business vehicle? If so, you can simultaneously solve or mitigate the first problem (needing more deductions) and the second problem (needing a replacement vehicle) if you can get your […]
2024 Last-Minute Year-End General Business Income Tax Deductions
The purpose of this letter is to reveal how you can get the IRS to own you money. Of course, the IRS will not likely cut you a check for this money (although in the right circumstances, that will happen), but you’ll realize the cash when you pay less in taxes. Here are six powerful […]
Got IRS Penalties? Know the Rules, Pay Nothing
If the IRS has recently billed you with the claim that you owe a penalty for late filing, late payment, or missed employment tax deposits, I urge you to pause before making any payment. You may not have to pay that penalty at all. The IRS often imposes steep penalties for filing tax returns late, […]