During tax season, you’ll often hear phrases brought up in conversation that you’re not familiar with. Two of the most common and essential terms that you should...
Posted by Allan J Rolnick, CPA, CTC on 01/13/2016
A general rule for tax planning for dividend repatriation includes cross-crediting, minimizing foreign withholding taxes and considering alternative methods of repatriating earnings. Cross-Crediting If...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 01/06/2016
Estimated tax is the method some employers use to pay income taxes. When paying income taxes, there are two methods allowed by the IRS; the withholding method or, you guessed it,...
Posted by James Wells EA MBA Tax Office on 01/05/2016
If foreign tax credits exceed the limitation in a given taxable year, these can be carried back one year and forward up to ten years. Excess credits on general limitation income...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 12/25/2015
After computation of creditable foreign income taxes, next step is to compute foreign tax credit limitation. Example: USAco has U.S source income = 200 Foreign source taxable...
Rental income An owner of a rental property is eligible for tax deduction from the earnings of gross rent provided the owner makes the following expenses in the current fiscal year....
Posted by ERNIE BUSTAMANTE on 10/30/2015
How Getting Married Can Impact Your Taxes Whether you plan to get married or you recently got married, you may be wondering just how this big step is going to affect you and your...
Posted by Financial Balance LLC on 10/30/2015
Bases for asserting jurisdictions Who to tax? What income to tax? Personal relationship between a taxpayer and the country This concept also applies to corporations and other type...
Source of income can have significant impact on calculation of foreign tax credit limitation. Formula for foreign tax credit limitation = Pre-credit U.S tax x foreign...