The purpose of this post is to get the IRS to owe you money. Of course, the IRS is not likely to 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 five powerful business tax deduction […]
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Dear Client: You must consider the vacation home rules when you • rent a bedroom in your home and also use it personally, or • rent your beach home (or any other home you own) and also use it personally. Personal Use of the Dwelling Rent or use by relatives. Personal use includes more than
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When moving your retirement money to an IRA, you should follow this one rule of thumb. If you fail to follow the rule I’m about to reveal, you can face two big problems. • First, your check will be shorted by 20 percent. • Second, you will be on the search for replacement money. Here
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Tax Traps to Avoid in Retirement By Charles Sherry, M.Sc. “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” It’s a quote that comes down to us from Benjamin Franklin, who uttered the phrase in 1789.
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The new tax law could affect how much tax someone should have their employer withhold from their paycheck. To help with this, the IRS urged taxpayers to visit the Withholding Calculator on IRS.gov. The Withholding Calculator can help prevent employees from having too little or too much tax withheld from their paycheck. Having too little
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As you likely know by now, your travel meals continue under tax reform as tax-deductible meals subject to the 50 percent cut. And tax reform did not change the rules that apply to your other travel expense deductions. One beauty of being in business for yourself is the ability to pick your travel destinations and
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Here’s the updated strategy on deducting business meals with your clients or customers: deduct your client and business meals as if tax reform never took place. At first glance it appeared that the new tax law that went into effect on January 1, 2018 would disallow business meal deductions along with entertainment. Looking deeper it
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Mileage Log Required for Vehicle Tax Deductions When it comes to your tax records, there’s one record that you really must keep, and it’s easily overlooked. It’s the mileage log. In an IRS audit, the mileage log often creates the first impression of your tax records, and not having a good log is the biggest
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Travel, Meals and Entertainment Expenses Commuting Expenses. To open this section I want to be sure we understand that, in general, the costs of commuting between a taxpayers home and work location are nondeductible commuting expenses. But under certain circumstances these commuting expenses can be deductible if: 1) The expense is for going between the
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Well, they did it. They drug it out to the last minute, but they did it. Weeelll, they did some of it. And I’d really like to thank all of them in Washington for dragging us through this during the holidays and leaving us to sort this all out this morning while at the same