How to Deduct Your Legal Fees after Tax Reform The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), known as tax reform, made it more difficult for you to deduct your legal fees. The new tax reform law suspended (killed is a better word) your legal fees as 2 percent miscellaneous...
Avoid Being an IRS Target When Your Business Loses Money If you operate what you think is a business, but that business loses money, it may not be a business at all under the tax code. Such a money-losing activity can look like a tax shelter to the IRS, and that...
Tax Reform: Planning for Your New 20 Percent Deduction As you likely know by now, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act created a 20 percent tax deduction under new tax code Section 199A. The question for you: Will you reap any benefits from this new deduction? And the second...
Tax Reform Update on Business Meals with Clients and Prospects Here’s the updated strategy: Deduct your client and business meals as if tax reform never took place. Wow. Is this aggressive? Not if the IRS comes out with regulations that follow a model set by the...
Tax Reform Allows Bigger Vehicle Deductions Finally, lawmakers did the right thing by increasing the luxury auto depreciation limits on business cars. The old luxury limits were unrealistic, punitive, unfair, and discriminatory against any car that cost more than...
Tax Reform Allows 100 Percent Deductions for Presentation Expenses Tax reform did much damage to tax deductions for business entertainment and meal expenses. But meals served at business presentations survived the entertainment and prospect and client meal...
