It’s never too early to start planning ahead to save money on taxes. The new inflation adjustments just announced are for tax year 2024, for which taxpayers will file tax returns in early 2025. With the brackets rising, some clients may get larger paychecks after taxes in 2024 as their effective rates go down for
Protect Your Estate When Exemptions May Sunset In 2025
No matter how wealthy you are —human nature tends to make us put off attending to important matters. But this is no time to ignore the fact that the TCJA lifetime estate and gift tax exemption will sunset in 2025. We have another election coming up in 2024, and clients shouldn’t get comfortable with wishful
Inflation Adjustments a Silver Lining for Tax Breaks, Deductions, & Retirement Accounts
Inflation is running rampant right now. Fortunately, the IRS takes inflation seriously and does its part to ease the sting to your wallet by making cost-of-living (COLA) adjustments every year. Not all sections of the Internal Revenue Code are tied to inflation but, the IRS takes a look at these numbers and, when warranted, adjusts
BUCKLE UP FOR BIDEN’S INFLATION REDUCTION ACT AND TAXES
President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act—a climate, energy, healthcare, and tax law that increases IRS funding, includes several tax credits, and changes some tax policy to raise tax revenue. Basically, it is a re-brand of the Build Back Better Plan missing some controversial line items. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, is a sweeping
Build Back Better Bill Sets Bar High for Millionaires Tax
Looks like affluent investors can relax over the holidays after all! Many of them are off the hook from the tax hikes embedded in the Biden administration’s $1.8 trillion “Build Back Better” Act. Almost 4.5 million folks making between $369,300 and $884,900 will actually pay $4,340 less in federal tax in 2022 under the tax
Inflation Impacts 2022 Tax Brackets
Planning means comparing! Effective tax planning means knowing how your current tax year’s circumstances might be different in the one ahead. Comparing the numbers helps you determine if you should postpone some earnings into 2022, where the income tax brackets are a bit wider, so you won’t be bumped into a higher one on your
Don’t Miss Midyear Tax Planning Opportunities
Valuable tax planning opportunities exist if you anticipate potential tax changes and take advantage of what’s still available under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, CARES Act, and other tax provisions. The American Rescue Plan Act enacted earlier this year included changes that will affect 2021 tax returns and, if enacted, the proposed American Jobs
Gift and Trust Tax Strategies To Consider For 2021
This is an update to a prior article written before the election and a Biden Presidency solidified the possibility for tax reform in 2021 or 2022. Many clients already made large gifts in 2020 to take advantage of the historically high gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemptions, concerned that these exemptions could be significantly
Biden’s Tax Policy Changes Will Impact 2021 Tax Planning
Nothing is yet set in stone, but we want to alert clients to “expect the unexpected” when it comes to potentially significant tax and regulatory policy changes in 2021. The first hint of things to come may be hidden in President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan. The $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 relief package represents the Biden administration’s
