A good Ponzi scheme can be hard to detect. For example, the schemer may pay 10% interest when the going rate is 5%. But the Ponzi swindler pays the victim’s 10 percent with money collected from other victims. It’s a house of cards that ultimately fails as Bernie Madoff can attest. Victims can lose their entire investments. Why is the Tax Reduction Letterinterested in … [Read more...]
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2020 Last-Minute Year-End Tax Strategies for Your Stock Portfolio
Here’s good news if you own a stock portfolio. (And if you’re a reader of the Tax Reduction Letter, I’ll bet you do.) If you know how to play the game, you can turn your stock portfolio into a year-end tax-reducing machine. The basics are really pretty straightforward. Avoid the high taxes (up to 40.8%) on short-term capital gains and ordinary income.Lower the taxes to … [Read more...]
Create Deductions: Use Your Vacation Home for Business Lodging
Do you own a vacation home or condo? If the answer is yes, remember this… If you use your property for personal use and business lodging, you’re entitled to some valuable deductions. What’s more, you can avoid oppressive vacation-home, and passive-loss rules… rules that can cost you big money and big problems with the IRS. (NOTE: Because we’re in the midst of the … [Read more...]
Take Advantage of Partnership Special Allocations
Operating your business as a partnership can offer real advantages. This is also true for LLCs (treated as partnerships for tax purposes). Why? Because operating your business as a partnership or LLC gives you the right to make “special tax allocations” of tax items among the partners. Read the full article for details What is a special tax allocation? Partners … [Read more...]
COVID-19: CARES Act Allows $100,000 Tax-Free IRA Grab and Repay
___________________________________________________________I hope this issue of the Tax Reduction Letter finds you and your family in good health. Warmest good wishes at this difficult time from all of us at the Bradford Tax Institute.___________________________________________________________ As we all know too well, the COVID-19 virus has had a devastating impact on our … [Read more...]