Flex Tax and Consulting Group (FTCG)
For self-employed professionals and small business owners in the San Francisco Bay Area, understanding how to structure your business can significantly impact your tax liability and retirement contributions. At Flex Tax and Consulting Group, we help clients across San Francisco, Castro Valley, and the greater Bay Area make informed decisions about tax strategy, entity selection, […]
Photo by Tierra Mallorca on Unsplash The following offers a general summary of the basic tax law requirements applicable to REITs. To qualify as a REIT, an entity must meet a number of organizational, operational, distribution, and compliance requirements. How must a real estate company be organized to qualify as a REIT? How do REITs
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This article was authored working with wikiHow, the world’s largest “how to” site, and also featured here on the wikiHow website. Before you can improve your financial health, you need to analyze your current finances. Keep track of your expenses for a month and look at where you are spending the most. Use extra money to
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This article was authored working with wikiHow, the world’s largest “how to” site, and also featured here on the wikiHow website. While you may have heard that nothing is certain but death and taxes, it is possible to reduce your US taxes to nearly zero, even when you’re paid a salary. Reduce your taxable income
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This article was authored working with wikiHow, the world’s largest “how to” site, and also featured here on the wikiHow website. Even if a nonprofit organization has achieved tax-exempt status, for example under Section 501(c)(3), the organization is likely still required to file a tax return annually. If your nonprofit has employees that are paid, or takes
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With the COVID-19 pandemic still going on, you may be spending more time working from your home office. You may have taken some extra rooms for your business use. Is that okay? Section 280A(c) states that you may claim a home office based on the portion of the dwelling that you use exclusively and regularly
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You likely formed an S corporation to save on self-employment taxes. If so, is your S corporation salary nonexistent? too low? too high? just right? Getting the S corporation salary right is important. First, if it’s too low and you get caught by the IRS, you will pay not only income taxes and self-employment taxes
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During this COVID-19 pandemic, landlords have two big possible problems: Tenants who can’t pay the rent. Tax losses they can’t deduct. We’ll start with the tenants and then move on to the rental property tax-loss issues. For the first time in U.S. history, residential landlords are subject to a sweeping nationwide federal moratorium on evictions
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Limited liability companies (LLCs) are a popular choice of entity for small businesses and investment activities. LLC owners are called members. Single-member LLCs have one owner, although spouses who jointly own an LLC in a community property state can elect treatment as a single member LLC for federal income tax purposes. We will call LLCs
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How much is clarity worth? A lot, a whole lot. And how much is making things easier worth? Of course, it’s a lot, a whole lot, too. We now have both the new (a) clarity and (b) easy road to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness for the self-employed with no employees. Get ready to
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We have already known a lot of charity entities in the world. They always had different operating under different business types; foundations, nonprofit organizations, or charities participate in our daily activities. We may use these terms incorrectly and interchangeably. Although all the organizations mentioned are to help the less fortunate in society, they differ in
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One of the advantages of operating a business as a partnership is the right to make special allocations of tax items among the partners. You have the same opportunity if you run your business as an LLC that’s treated as a partnership for federal tax purposes. What Is a Special Tax Allocation? A special tax
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The PPP free-cash program to assist businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic is gaining traction and clarity. If you operate your business as a partnership, you have several recent developments that make the free-cash program more to your benefit. Partner’s Self-Employment Income Creates Cash and Forgiveness Just as sole proprietors failed originally to ask for their
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Update as of June 3, 2020: Small businesses may soon find more flexibility in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) as a bill passed the House on Thursday that would extend the time in which companies need to spend funds and alter the rule that they must pay 75% of the funds on the payroll for
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Payroll Protection Plan – Forgivable Loan That You Should Get Many small business owners who have been approved for Paycheck Protection Program loans (“PPP”) are realizing that the loan isn’t as forgivable as they’d hoped. The amount a small business can qualify to have forgiven must primarily be payroll costs. The SBA’s rule-making has stated
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The IRS provides you with a choice of two methods for claiming business mileage on your taxes. You can use the actual expenses method to calculate your mileage deduction, which requires adding up all of the money spent operating your vehicle and multiplying it by the percentage that you used it for business. Or, you
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On Friday, the IRS announced the opening of its Free File program, which provides free electronic filing to qualifying taxpayers, generally those who earned $66,000 or less last year. The program is opening before the regular filing season, which will begin Jan. 28, and is available only through the IRS website at irs.gov/freefile. After they access
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Responding to concerns that some partnerships required to report capital account information may be unable to comply, the IRS is postponing the requirement to report partners’ shares of partnership capital on the tax-basis method for 2019 (for partnership tax years beginning in calendar 2019) until 2020 (for partnership tax years that begin on or after
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Tenant allowances are payments a lessor makes to a lessee to provide the tenant with funds to prepare the rented space for its intended business use. Generally, the tenant treats a tenant allowance received from the landlord as an ordinary income. Normally, the tenant would recognize income when the allowance received and depreciate the assets
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IRS Tax Treatment of Cryptocurrency “hard forks”and “airdrops” A “hard fork” of a cryptocurrency owned by a taxpayer does not result in gross income for a taxpayer. If the taxpayer receives no units of the new cryptocurrency. However, taxpayers receiving an “airdrop” of units of a new cryptocurrency after a hard fork have ordinary
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The IRS issued interim guidance on how eligible small businesses can take advantage of a new provision that allows them to apply part or all of their Sec. 41 research tax credit against their payroll tax liability instead of their income tax liability. Before 2016, taxpayers could only take the research credit against their income
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Certain individuals who expatriate from the United States may obtain relief from the exit tax of Sec. 877A and other outstanding tax liabilities, under procedures, the IRS outlined Friday on its website and announced in News Release IR-2019-151. The relief applies to individuals who relinquished or will relinquish their U.S. citizenship after March 18, 2010, and meet several
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In T.D. 9878, the IRS finalized proposed regulations (REG-150992-13) it had issued in 2016, without changes, and removed temporary regulations (T.D. 9789) published in connection with the proposed regulations. Under the final regulations, as under the temporary and proposed regulations, taxpayers that want to elect to deduct a disaster loss in the tax year preceding
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The IRS on Wednesday issued the 2020 annual inflation adjustments for many tax provisions as well as the 2020 tax rate tables for individuals and estates and trusts (Rev. Proc. 2019-44). These adjusted amounts will used to prepare the tax year 2020 returns in 2021. Many amounts will increase in inflation in 2020. The standard
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The IRS on Tuesday updated the rules for using per-diem rates to substantiate the amount of ordinary and necessary business expenses paid or incurred. While traveling away from home in light of changes enacted by the law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), P.L. 115-97 (Rev. Proc. 2019-48). The revenue procedure supersedes and
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