Tax Time Bomb: Passive Foreign Investment Companies Passive foreign investment companies, or PFICs, are subject to some of the most complex provisions of the tax law. You may own one and not even know it. A passive foreign investment company is any foreign corporation...
Retirement Plan and IRA Rollover Advice When moving your retirement money to an IRA, you should follow this one rule of thumb. If you fail to follow the rule we’re about to reveal, you can face two big problems: First, your check will be shorted by 20 percent. Second,...
How Cost Segregation Can Turn Your Rental into a Cash Cow Cost segregation breaks your real property into its components, some of which you can depreciate much faster than the typical 27.5 years for a residential rental or 39 years for nonresidential real estate....
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...
Tax Implications of Goodwill Here’s a primer to help you avoid confusion about goodwill: As the seller, you have self-created goodwill when the total sales price of your business exceeds the fair market value of its assets, both tangible and intangible. You have...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) Changes to Your Tax-Free Supper Money Here’s how the TCJA applied its tax reform to your supper money meal allowances. Before tax reform, you deducted 100 percent of the supper money cost. Now, because of tax reform, your tax deduction...
