
Part 3: Tax Planning for Real Estate Investors: Understanding Depreciation and Recapture
When working with clients on real estate investments, you will need to prepare them for a higher level of tax complexity. This might mean encouraging
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Tax Strategies for Selling an S Corporation: Failing the §302 Stock Sale Tests
As a tax planner, when a client approaches you about selling their S corporation, one of the first questions to ask is whether they are

Tax Strategies for Selling an S Corporation: Planning for an Asset Sale
Even if you have never assisted a client with the sale of a business, as a tax planner you have the potential to provide tremendous

How Partnering with Technical Experts Makes It Easier to Offer Services to Your Clients
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Ethical Considerations for Tax Professionals: Standards and Penalties for Tax Positions
When tax professionals prepare a tax return, they are typically aiming for the return to be correct “beyond a reasonable doubt.” However, this is hardly

Ethical Considerations for Tax Professionals: Determining Fees
Every tax professional needs to be conscious of how to manage their practice ethically. An important resource in this matter is Circular 230, a publication

Tax Planning Versus Preparation – What is the Difference? – Part 2
By Dominique Molina, CPA MST CTS Tax planning is making shifts in a taxpayer’s financial and business situation, to minimize their tax burden both in

Tax Planning Versus Preparation – What is the Difference? – Part 1
By Dominique Molina, CPA MST CTS Visit social media or google these days and you’ll most likely see advertisements for Tax Planning. But many taxpayers

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Talent has always been something that firm leaders have had to manage carefully, but this year seems especially difficult and many firms are wondering what

Tax Planning for Retirement Plans: The Underestimated Value of Social Security
A common retirement planning myth is that Social Security benefits won’t be around for much longer. Generation X, Millennials, and Gen Z are jokingly told

Tax Planning for Retirement Plans: Roth IRAs and the Five-Year Rule
Roth IRAs have become a popular option for flexible retirement planning. A benefit to this type of retirement account is the fact that contributions to
