Thinking about selling your business? Then don’t forget that it may include some extremely valuable “intangible assets.” Intangible assets include customer lists, goodwill, proprietary software, and much more. If you do decide to sell your business, here is what you need to know: Intangibles sold by your sole proprietorship or single-member LLC. If you sell a … [Read more...]
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Selling Your Business: How to Make Tax-Saving Price Allocations for an Asset Sale
If you sell a business that you’ve operated as a sole proprietorship or single-member LLC (treated as a sole proprietorship for tax purposes), you automatically are making an asset sale. To come out a winner, you need to know how the law taxes each of the assets. The good news is that if you know what you’re doing, you can slash your tax bill and collect a lot more … [Read more...]
7 year-end stock-portfolio tax strategies
2015 is coming to an end very soon, which means now is the time to turn your stock-market portfolio into a powerful tax-cutting machine. But don’t wait! If you want to save money (and who doesn’t), don’t miss our information-packed article titled Tax Tips: 2015 Last-Minute Year-End Tax Strategies for Your Stock Portfolio. Five ways our fact-filled article can help … [Read more...]
4 year-end family tax-planning strategies
Planning on getting married? Congratulations! Planning on getting divorced? Congratulations! (if they’re in order.) Planning on giving money to family or friends? Congratulations to them and to you for your beneficence! The important point? When you take action and do these things you create very real tax consequences. We’ll tell you how to take advantage of four, … [Read more...]
How coin, stamp, and baseball card collectors can keep the IRS happy
Are you a collector of coins, stamps, baseball cards, or other items? If the answer is “yes,” you should also start collecting some important tax information. For starters, you should know that your collecting activities will fall into one of four IRS-determined tax categories: Hobby Investment Trader Dealer Depending on how the IRS categorizes your collecting … [Read more...]