Now the TCJA is opening up Section 529 plans to pre-college schooling. Beginning in 2018, the definition of qualified expenses is broadened to include tuition for enrollment at an elementary or secondary public, private or religious school.
Taxpayers who owe tax and file their federal income tax return more than 60 days after the deadline will usually face a higher late-filing penalty. For that reason, the Internal Revenue Service urges affected taxpayers to avoid the penalty increase by ...
What about loans from shareholders. In theory, and I use that term literally, a shareholder makes a loan to a corporation. They are supposed to repay that loan with interest. However, in the real world, these loans are never paid back.
As a tax professional, you surely know about the new 20% tax deduction for “Pass Through” entities under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). If you have musician and other performing art clients, you may have wondered if (and how) they qualify.
Before we get into the nuts and bolts of a recent District Court Case, let’s take a moment to discuss GRATs. First of all, with the new tax law the estate tax exemption is $11.2 million. If you are married, and elect portability, then the exemption is ...
Thomson Reuters has released a Checkpoint report to help practitioners and companies navigate state tax filing obligations for pass-through entities, such as partnerships, limited liability companies taxed as partnerships, and S corporations.
I keep in touch with an ex-bookkeeper that I sort of mentored. She decided to take the Enrolled Agent Exam but ended up failing Part I and must take it again. When I asked her what she got wrong, she mentioned basis. Basis is a hard concept to ...
Previously, divorced taxpayers were entitled to write of the full cost of qualified alimony payments above the line on a federal return. On the flip side, alimony recipients had to report the payments as taxable income. But child support payments, as ...D