Individual Tax Planning - Tax Staff Essentials
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Product Code: AI23-TSE.ITP
Level: Intermediate
Vendor: AICPA CPE Division
Field of Study: Taxes
Overview:
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Congress's frequent legislative changes to the Internal Revenue Code has many individuals and closely held businesses highly focused on the impact of taxes and tax rates on their financial well-being.
Become up to date on tax law changes, Tax Court decisions, and the latest IRS guidance, as well as the latest comprehensive tax-planning strategies to preserve your clients' wealth.
Show your clients how you are protecting themselves from higher taxes and ensure your role as a trusted advisor.
Objectives:
Learning Outcomes
- Calculate the full and partial exclusion available for the sale of a principal residence.
- Identify how to treat the conversion of a principal residence into a rental property and the interplay with Section 121 when the rental property is sold.
- Determine the basis of assets received in a like-kind exchange.
- Calculate the installment sales gain and determine if there is a gain or loss on the repossession of an installment sale.
- Recognize the tax advantages and opportunities for hiring a spouse as an employee.
- Identify the tax advantages when sole proprietors, partnerships, or S corporations hire their children.
- Calculate and compare the tax savings for a partnership and S corporation when employing a child.
- Identify tax strategies to take advantage of Section 179 or bonus depreciation.
- Recognize and apply Section 199A provisions to rental properties to take advantage of the qualified business income deduction.
- Determine the best expense allocation method to use for vacation properties that are third-party rentals for part of the year.
- Determine tax planning opportunities for the Section 121 gain exclusion when a principal residence is converted to a rental property.
- Identify tax-saving college financing maneuvers for higher-income clients who are ineligible for the well-known education tax breaks.
- Identify strategies for how parents can can take advantage of educational assistance provisions by employing their children through their closely held business.
Major Topics:
Key Topics
- Maximizing tax benefits on the sale of a principal residence
- Tax deferral through like-kind exchanges and installment sales
- Planning strategies for the sale of capital gain assets and real property
- Maximizing the tax benefits available to self-employed individuals
- Tax planning opportunities for rental properties
- Maximizing deductions and credits for education expenses
- Planning for required minimum distributions
Designed For:
Who Will Benefit
- CPAs
- Tax practitioners