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How Business Owners Can Boost Income by Avoiding the $10,000 SALT Cap
Taxpayers have been whipsawed by confusing rules for the $10,000 limit on deducting state and local taxes (SALT), the most politically charged piece of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017. The cap has caused nearly 11 million individuals to lose an annual deduction worth $323 billion. But many owners of private businesses known as passthroughs can avert that financial pain. If you own your company and thus report your business income on your personal federal income tax return, here’s what you need to know.
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The Benefits Your Military Veteran Clients Aren’t Using (And Why That’s a Planning Problem)
Why aren’t more veterans using the benefits they’ve earned? Part of the problem is awareness, and part of it is discomfort (for both veterans and advisors). After all, veteran benefits are rooted in service-connected health and trauma, placing them in a category that often feels more personal than financial. That alone can deter veterans from discussing their disability compensation and keep advisors from broaching the subject altogether. The result is financial plans that look optimized on paper but are built on incomplete assumptions and missed opportunities – opportunities that have been more than earned.
Start the Year Right: Your WISP Doesn’t Have to Be a Tax Season Nightmare
The mere mention of a WISP makes most tax professionals want to suddenly lose their internet connection. It sounds bureaucratic, technical, and deeply unfun. But here’s the good news: creating and maintaining a WISP does not have to feel like a compliance root canal. And ignoring it can turn into something far worse than an IRS audit. Let’s talk about why you need one, what it’s actually supposed to do, and how to get it done without wrecking your sanity in the middle of filing season.
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Fractional Art Investing Is Real — How To Advise Your Clients On The Tax Consequences
In mid-November a portrait of a young Vietnamese woman by the artist Gustav Klimt, which was part of the estate of the late Leonard Lauder (the cosmetics billionaire), was sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $236.4 million. It set the record for the most expensive work of modern art ever
2025 Winter Education Series Event Calendar
Think Outside the Tax Box proudly presents the 2025 Winter Education Series! This October through December, we are bringing our loyal subscribers five webinars featuring some of the brightest minds in tax. Each high quality webinar is filled with engaging content, actionable insights for your clients, and they all come
Charitable Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
For charitable-minded taxpayers, several provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OB3 Act) will impact the tax reduction associated with their charitable giving starting next year in 2026. In one case, the change increases the deductible amount, but all other changes surprisingly reduce the value of charitable contribution deductions.
Some Tips to Help Clients Make the Most of the New Tip Tax Deduction
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act relieves some of the tax burden that comes along with tip income for tax years 2025-2028. But not in some of the ways that it was initially explained. Yes, tip income is still taxable income. No, customers do not have to pay tips in
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Inventory Expensing and The Cash Method: Changes from the TCJA
Join Lucien P. Gauthier as we discuss these two changes made by the TCJA in depth.
Taking the Mystery Out of Revised Energy Credits for Individuals
Learn valuable tips to help your clients claim the new residential energy and electric vehicle credits.
Tax Season 911
Your preparedness plan to create tax savings and survive the busiest of times without falling into old habits!
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Amber Gray-Fenner is an Enrolled Agent and tax practitioner specializing in tax returns, planning, and representation for individuals and small businesses. She owns Tax Therapy, LLC in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Matt Metras, EA, owns MDM Financial Services in NY, specializing in bookkeeping and taxation for cryptocurrency clients. He’s an educator on cryptocurrency taxation and actively engages in community advocacy.
Jeff Stimpson, has been a tax and finance writer for 25 years. Hee contributes to publications like Accounting Today and Financial Advisor. His other credits include sales tax, technology, and practice management, residing in New York.
Annette Nellen is a professor and tax program director at San José State University, with extensive involvement in tax organizations and a focus on tax policy, cryptocurrency, and education.
Peter J Reilly graduated from the College of the Holy Cross, worked in CPA firms like Joseph B Cohan and Associates and CCR LLP, and now runs a tax practice while writing for Forbes.com.
Thomas Gorczynski, EA USTCP CTP, is a tax expert known for speaking and educating on federal tax law. He’s editor-in-chief of EA Journal, co-author of the PassKey Learning Systems EA Review Series, and runs a tax practice in Phoenix, Arizona.
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