As the year winds down, it’s time to shift gears to year-end tax planning. To ensure your business is in the best financial position possible, you will need to check all of the correct boxes. This takes careful planning and consideration, so getting a start now will help down the line. In this article, I […] Read more “Year End Tax Planning (The Steps to Take to Be Ready for Year End)”
Category: Individual taxes
The best business owners know the importance of an efficient tax season. They also are aware that filing your taxes can be a difficult process, but is much worse if you’re unprepared. Imagine spending late nights at the office, because you can’t find the document you need, scrambling to get caught up on bookkeeping before […] Read more “Prepare Now for an Efficient Tax Season”
According to reports, more employees bought company shares via employee stock purchase plans during the pandemic. Offering employees company shares as part of their compensation package is common among startups. Not only can it boost employee engagement and further startup success, but it can also turn into a lucrative opportunity for employees. However, there are some things […] Read more “Exercising Your Startup Stock Options”
Many employees see the value in company stock, especially recently. The average worker participation rate in employee stock purchase plans rose to 28% from January 2020 to March 2021. And purchasing stocks isn’t employees’ only option. Many companies offer their team members a chance to earn vested stock, whether it’s through meeting certain commitments or staying with […] Read more “What is The 83(b) Form and Why is it Important?”
Everything that’s changed for Meals and Entertainment tax deductions from the 2018 Tax Reform Bill The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”) recently had its first birthday. Whether you see that as a reason to celebrate or an unwelcome reminder, there is little question that the law’s multitude of changes to the tax code […] Read more “Tax Deduction Changes for Business Meals and Entertainment: The Fine Line Between Food and Fun”
When you take a new job as an employee, there is usually a bunch of paperwork to complete to get you set up and settled in. This includes your W-4 tax form, which determines how much your new employer will withhold from each paycheck. If you don’t know or don’t recall what your W-4 says […] Read more “New Tax Benefits Are in the Eye of the Withholder: Make Sure Your W-4 is Correct”
A college education costs a lot of money. It is a fair bet that it will cost even more next year, and the year after that, and the decade after that.For parents, the thought of writing checks for upwards of $60,000 a year for four years or more can send shivers down the spine. But […] Read more “Get Your College (Savings) Education: Understanding 529 Plans and UTMA/UGMA Accounts”
If there existed a place called “The Museum of the American Workplace,” the typewriters, fax machines, and other relics would likely be accompanied by an exhibit of traditional defined-benefit pension plans. Once a bedrock of employer-based retirement savings, traditional pension plans have been under siege and disappearing from the American workforce for decades, replaced by […] Read more “Cash-Balance Plans Can Help Small Business Owners Boost Savings”
New Kiddie Tax Rules and Rates for 2018 Mowing the lawn, shoveling the driveway, teaching their parents how to use their tablets and phones – these are all ways kids and teens can earn some spending money. No matter how modest that compensation may be, every dollar of it constitutes “earned income.” But kids can […] Read more “The New “Kiddie Tax”: It May Be Simpler, But It Still Isn’t Child’s Play”
For many, childhood birthdays connote memories of a reliable yearly windfall in the form of a check for $10 or $25 from grandma and grandpa. Such gifts perhaps represented a new video game or record album (for those who recall what those were), but they probably didn’t raise any tax concerns either for the child […] Read more “What You Need to Know About the Gift Tax”
If you are a salaried employee working for an established company, your employer likely provides you with a range of perks and programs that you’d have to pay for or take care of yourself if you ran your own business. From that ever-flowing coffee in the break-room to solid health insurance to the slice of […] Read more “SEP IRAs: An Attractive Retirement Savings Option for Freelancers and the Self-Employed”
Learn all the tax ramifications of buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies What is Bitcoin? Is it currency? Is it a commodity? Is it a passing fad doomed for a crash or a permanent sea change in investment and commerce? Only the future will determine the answer to that latter question, but how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, […] Read more “Bitcoin and Your Taxes: The IRS Wants Its Cut”