Over the last 70 years, child support payments have been deductible by the payer and taxed as income for the recipient (note that significant rule changes occurred in 1984). The previous...
Posted by Elliot Kravitz, ATP on 08/02/2019
Suppose you think of a company as an unincorporated parallel business. If your business expenses exceed your income, you will have a net loss. You may feel that you can deduct this...
Posted by YourIRSTaxAdvocate.com on 07/29/2019
As a parent, I know children are very clear about what they want and do not seem to care about the monetary cost. What seems more fun to me is that they have no problem spending our...
Posted by YourIRSTaxAdvocate.com on 07/29/2019
Tax breaks for adoption incorporate both a qualified adoption cost and tax credit paid to adopt an eligible child and an exclusion from earnings for employer-enabled adoption aid....
There is no hard-and-fast method for differentiating between a hobby and a real business based on a tax return. There is no way to tell a business from a hobby except by the use of...
Posted by Elliot Kravitz, ATP on 07/25/2019
An annuity is a contract that exists between you and an insurance company to cover specific objectives, such as lifetime income, principal protection, legacy planning or care cost...
Posted by Elliot Kravitz, ATP on 07/25/2019
As you are probably aware, the large proportion of your income is taxable. Whether earned through a salary, hourly wages, tips, commissions, rent from a property that you lease or...
Posted by Elliot Kravitz, ATP on 07/25/2019
Every year does not go as expected, and sometimes it could be a situation where businesses made fewer profits as they did the years before. When the cost of expenses begins to exceed...
Posted by Elliot Kravitz, ATP on 07/25/2019
The eighteenth-century philosopher and economist Adam Smith endeavored to systematize the standards that ought to oversee a sound arrangement of taxation. In The Wealth of Nations...
Posted by Elliot Kravitz, ATP on 05/29/2019