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Many one-owner and husband-and-wife-owned businesses opt for discriminatory health insurance plans for their businesses. The new health care law eliminates that discrimination for new plans but allows grandfathered plans to continue as before.
This article gives you tax-saving tips on raw land and vacant lots held for investment. Tax law favors raw land and vacant lot investments, allowing choices to expense or capitalize.
Your claim to Section 179 expensing comes with strings. You make a deal with the government to keep your business use above 50 percent during the depreciation periods for the assets that you expensed. Should you violate your agreement, the government shows up to recapture Section 179 expensing.
The sale or trade-in of a business vehicle has positive or negative tax ramifications. You have a choice in this matter. But first you need to know your gain or loss. This article gives you the six steps to finding your gain or loss.
The Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange is perfect for many of today’s business vehicles that have big gains embedded in them from prior use of Section 179 expensing and/or bonus depreciation.
To operate successfully as a corporation, you need to be good at paperwork. Also, you may not treat the advance account on the corporate books as your personal slush fund.
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