Nov 30, 2021 | Firm Updates, Individual Tax, Tax Tips
2021 brought a multitude of changes affecting individual taxpayers and with additional legislation being debated in Congress, it looks like 2022 will be no different. As the proposed legislation is still evolving, we will focus on the existing laws to assist your...
Mar 22, 2021 | Firm Updates, Individual Tax, Tax Tips
On Friday, March 19, New York State announced the extension of the individual tax deadline from April 15 to May 17, 2021, to align with the IRS’ recent extension of the federal tax deadline. It is important to note that both federal and New York State first...
Mar 3, 2021 | Firm Updates, Small Business, Tax Tips
If your business owns one building, but you want to replace it with another building, what should you do? You could sell the building, recognizing and paying tax on any gain, and then buy a new building. Alternatively, you could defer the gain by exchanging the old...
Feb 4, 2021 | Firm Updates, Tax Tips
Qualified Opportunity Funds (QOFs) were created as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in order to provide tax incentives to investors who invest capital gains in economically distressed communities. A QOF is defined as an investment vehicle organized as a...
Dec 21, 2020 | Firm Updates, Individual Tax, Tax Tips
The purpose of the kiddie tax is to prevent the abuse of transferring income-generating assets to your children in order to benefit from lower tax rates. Per the Internal Revenue Service, the kiddie tax applies if: The child has unearned income, such as interest and...
Dec 10, 2020 | Firm Updates, Tax Tips
President-Elect Joe Biden has proposed reducing the lifetime estate and gift tax exclusion. Whether you should act now to preserve the larger current exclusion depends on your personal situation. The lifetime estate and gift tax exclusion is higher than it has ever...
