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Tax-Saving Tips August 2019
THE WHALEN GROUP Tax-Saving Tips August 2019 How Much is One Trillion: There are 60 seconds in a minute, that’s 3600 seconds per hour and 24 hours in a day, that’s 86,400 seconds in a day, 365 days in a year, that’s 31,536,000 seconds in a year. Since the birth of Christ or since we […]
Tax-Saving Tips July 2019
THE WHALEN GROUP July 2019 Proven Tax Reduction Strategies for Sole Proprietors If you operate your business as a sole proprietorship, there are many strategies to reduce your taxes. Let’s start with the following 10: Use the Section 105 plan to make your health insurance a tax-favored business deduction on your Schedule C. Employ your […]
Tax-Saving Tips June 2019
THE WHALEN GROUP Combine Home Sale with the 1031 Exchange You don’t often get the opportunity to even consider making a tax-saving double play. But your personal residence combined with a desire for a rental property can provide just such an opportunity. The tax-saving strategy is to combine the tax-avoidance advantage of the principal residence […]
Tax Tips May 2019
Good news. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) did not harm the backdoor Roth strategy. As you likely know, the Roth IRA is a terrific way to grow your wealth with a minimum tax downside because you pay the taxes up front and then, with the proper holding period, pay no taxes after that. […]
Tax Savings Tips
April 2019 Good News: Most Rentals Likely Qualify as Section 199A Businesses The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act tax reform added new tax code Section 199A, which created a 20 percent tax deduction possibility for you if your rental property (a) has profits and (b) can qualify as a trade or business. As the law […]
Tax-Saving Tips
THE WHALEN GROUP Tax-Saving Tips February 2019 IRS Issues Final Section 199A Regulations and Defines QBI Your ownership of a pass-through trade or business can generate a Section 199A tax deduction of up to 20 percent of your qualified business income (QBI). The C corporation does not generate this deduction, but the proprietorship, partnership, […]
THE WHALEN GROUP Tax-Saving Tips
January 2019 TCJA Tax Reform Sticks It to Business Start-Ups That Lose Money The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) tax reform added an amazing limit on larger business losses that can attack you where it hurts—right in your cash flow. And this new law works in some unusual ways that can tax you even […]
YEAR-END TAX PLANNING 2018
THE WHALEN GROUP INDIVIDUAL TAX ISSUES Individuals who are 70 ½ years of age or older in this calendar year must take a Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) from their IRA by December 31st. There is a 50% penalty tax for forgetting this provision. The only exception to this rule is the first year you turn […]
Convert Your Personal Vehicle to Business and Deduct up to 100 Percent
THE WHALEN GROUP Tax-Saving Tips August 2018 Convert Your Personal Vehicle to Business and Deduct up to 100 Percent You probably like your personal vehicle just as it is. But wouldn’t you like it far better if it were producing tax deductions? Perhaps big deductions, immediately. And the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act gives you […]
Drive Time Increases Odds of Deducting Rental Property Losses
THE WHALEN GROUP Tax-Saving Tips October 2018 Drive Time Increases Odds of Deducting Rental Property Losses Your rental properties provide tax shelter when you can deduct your losses against your other income. One step to deducting the losses is to pass the tax code’s 750-hour test. And one step to finding the hours you need […]