Don’t forget your Section 199A deduction in your 2026 year-end tax planning. Here are eight year-end moves that reduce your income taxes and boost your Section 199A deduction, updated for the 2026 rules: a wider phase-in range and a new $400 minimum deduction.

Your year-end tax planning doesn’t have to be hard. This article takes your daily business activities and identifies easy year-end tax-planning moves you can make today. Our six strategies will increase your tax deductions, reducing your taxable income so the government takes less of your 2026 cash.

Here’s an easy question: Do you need more 2026 tax deductions? If so, continue reading. Next easy question: Do you need a replacement business vehicle? If so, you can simultaneously solve or mitigate both the first problem (needing more deductions) and the second problem (obtaining a replacement vehicle), but you must get your replacement vehicle in service on or before December 31, 2026. This article helps you find the right vehicle for the deduction you desire.

December 31 is just around the corner. That’s your last day to find tax deductions from your existing business and personal (yes, personal) vehicles to cut your 2026 taxes. In this article, you will learn how to find and claim tax deductions the tax code has trapped in your existing business cars, SUVs, trucks, and vans. And you will learn how 100 percent bonus depreciation makes it possible for you to find a big deduction from your existing personal vehicle (note the terms “existing” and “personal”).

Are you thinking of getting married or getting divorced? If so, you need to consider December 31, 2026, in your tax planning. Here’s another question: Do you give money to family or friends (other than your children who are subject to the kiddie tax)? If so, you need to consider the zero-tax planning strategy. Now consider your own children under age 18. Have you paid them for work they’ve done for your business? Have you paid them the right way? You’ll find the answers here.

When you use the tax code’s offset game, your stock market portfolio can become a gold mine for reducing your 2026 income taxes. The tax code sets the basic rules, and once you know them, you can apply the right strategies. Beyond tax-loss harvesting, you can avoid paying taxes on stock appreciation by gifting stock to charity, your parents, or your children who aren’t subject to the kiddie tax.

2026 has been a rough year for cryptocurrency investors. Fortunately, there are many things crypto owners can do before year-end to reduce the taxes they owe, including harvesting losses, selling and repurchasing crypto to step up their basis, donating crypto to charity, gifting crypto, or establishing a self-directed IRA or solo 401(k) for crypto.

Have you reimbursed your employees (including your employee-spouse) as stipulated in your health reimbursement arrangements? If you operate as an S corporation, is your health insurance set up correctly for the best tax deduction? In this article, we help with these matters and more.

Does your business have a retirement plan for you and, if applicable, your employees? It should. The tax code offers strong reasons to set up a retirement plan and, if needed, update an existing one.