Qualifying for Deduction To take a business deduction for home office expenses, you must use your home under one of the following scenarios. You have an area in your home that is regularly and ex-clusively used as your principal place of business. You have an area in your home where you regularly and exclusively meet […]
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Business Owners – Taking Money Out of a Business When taking money out of a business, transactions must be carefully structured to avoid unwanted tax consequences or damage to the business entity. Business owners should follow the advice of a tax professional to make sure finan-cial transactions are controlled and do not cause unantici-pated taxation
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Online Business Resources www.sba.gov The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) provides programs for businesses in the areas of technical assistance, training and counseling, financial as-sistance, assistance with government contracting, disas-ter assistance recovery, advocacy laws and regulations, civ-il rights compliance, and special interests, such as women, veterans, Native Americans, and young entrepreneurs. The website provides links
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Business Expenses Worksheet If this is your first year with our firm, please provide a depreciation schedule for all property placed in service in prior years. DOWNLOAD PDF Contact Us There are many events that occur during the year that can affect your tax situation. Preparation of your tax return involves sum-marizing transactions and events
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Sole Proprietorship Pros No formal creation process. Easy to operate and dissolve. No separate tax return. Easy to integrate business use of home deductions. No double taxation of profits. Cons No liability protection, except through insurance. Self-employment tax is assessed on entire net profit of the business. Transfer of ownership can be complex. Limited access
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Sole proprietor, single-member LLC, and spouses-owned business Entity Schedule C (Form 1040), Profit or Loss From Business Schedule F (Form 1040), Profit or Loss From Farming Schedule SE (Form 1040), Self-Employment Tax IRS Pub. 334, Tax Guide for Small Business Accounting and Recordkeeping Accounting is less involved than partnerships and corporations. Double-entry bookkeeping is not
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Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) The alternative minimum tax (AMT) was originally enact-ed to ensure that high-income taxpayers pay at least a min-imum amount of tax if they benefit from certain deductions and other tax preference items. The AMT tax computation is a parallel system to the reg-ular tax system with its own definitions of income
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Exclusion of Gain Principal residence defined A principal residence is your main home, which is the home where you ordinarily live most of the time. You can have only one main home at any one time. Individual homeowners Individuals can exclude up to $250,000 of gain on the sale of a home if three tests
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If you hire someone for a long-term, full-time project or a series of projects that are likely to last for an extended period, you must pay special attention to the difference between independent contractors and employees. Why It Matters The Internal Revenue Service and state regulators scrutinize the distinction between employees and independent contractors because
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Depreciating Business Property. Depreciation deductions can be extremely valuable for a business. For example, in a recent court case, a federal judge ruled a company could begin taking its depreciation deductions for two buildings housing retail stores at a point prior to when they were \”open for business.\” The ruling allowed the company to show a
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