Category: Financial Planning
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We help with Turbotax returns
Self-preparers have an easy option for professional support! For many years I’ve promoted the concept that most people should be able to file their own tax return without outside help. In cases where the taxes are based on salaried income, investment income and other well-documented sources, it makes sense to file your own taxes online and…
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What the fiduciary rule means to us
Update on February 8, 2017: District Court in Texas upheld the fiduciary rule in this 81 page ruling in a case brought by the financial services industry groups. The court ruling seems to praise the new rule. Except in the unlikely event of very fast action by the Department of Labor it appears that the fiduciary…
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Sad end to the ‘realness’
OnlineAdviser and OnlineNavigator services end public access for incoming call telephone support. Unscheduled telephone calls will no longer be accepted due to a share rise in scam attempts. Perhaps the most significant career contribution I’ve made to the business world is the establishment of OnlineAdviser and OnlineNavigator nonprofit services that have addressed tens of thousands of consumer…
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The short list of legal income tax avoidance tools
Most of the legal tax saving strategies used successfully by individual taxpayers in the U.S. stem from just 12 tactics. These are frequently observed in tax practice and confirmed by the IRS1 as the most expensive to the government. All of these avoid federal income tax: Earnings of nonprofit business organizations Qualified employee benefits Deferred compensation…
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Best tax shelters for 2017
Will this be the year that you reduce or eliminate your federal income taxes? I help reduce taxes for clients with income income ranging from $50,000 to $4,300,000. There are plenty of legal and well-proven tax shelters available to taxpayers in every category. The top ten most common tax avoidance strategies are covered here. Tax…
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412i plan suitability
limitations and suitability issues for those considering the use of a 412(i) anniuty pension plan
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Pension plan design and contribution calculation example
an example of how a one persion annuity pension plan contribution is calculated
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Crowdfunding update at year end 2016
Yesterday the National Law Review published a concise and useful update on Regulation CF crowdfunding written by Samuel Effron. The article summarized the results of the first six months of Regulation CF crowdfunding (July – December 2016). I exchanged emails with the author. We agree that crowdfunding is still in its infancy and we have too…
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Adios 2016 business disasters
No doubt 2016 was a tough year for me. Overall my business revenue dropped $17,600 despite my adding new accounting and planning clients at a healthy pace. I easily worked over 4500 hours at three different businesses. This means that my overall gross receipts were under $25 per hour and I had a net business loss…