Your Personal Home Is Not Your Tax Home The fact that your personal home is not your tax home is one income tax issue. Here’s another: Business travel is different from business transportation. Your tax deductions, tax strategies, and tax records hinge on the...
How to Deduct Your Legal Fees after Tax Reform The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), known as tax reform, made it more difficult for you to deduct your legal fees. The new tax reform law suspended (killed is a better word) your legal fees as 2 percent miscellaneous...
Tax Reform Update on Business Meals with Clients and Prospects Here’s the updated strategy: Deduct your client and business meals as if tax reform never took place. Wow. Is this aggressive? Not if the IRS comes out with regulations that follow a model set by the...
Tax Reform Allows Bigger Vehicle Deductions Finally, lawmakers did the right thing by increasing the luxury auto depreciation limits on business cars. The old luxury limits were unrealistic, punitive, unfair, and discriminatory against any car that cost more than...
Tax Reform Allows 100 Percent Deductions for Presentation Expenses Tax reform did much damage to tax deductions for business entertainment and meal expenses. But meals served at business presentations survived the entertainment and prospect and client meal...
Home Office with More Than One Business The office-in-the-home deduction produces good to excellent tax savings by turning personal house expenses into business deductions. Additionally, it enables you to deduct big vehicle expenses by eliminating nondeductible...
