By month: April 2015
A Cruise Makes a Fabulous Vacation—and a Fabulous Tax Deduction If You Plan It Right
Do you have an upcoming business trip? Wouldn’t it be nice to travel there on a cruise ship and reach your destination fully revitalized? Surprisingly, tax law allows you to treat your cruise vacation as a business transportation expense, which means you can deduct most or all of the cost.
Spy on Your Competitors, Discover Ways to Improve Your Business, and Write Off the Whole Expense!
Have you ever visited a competing business as a customer to see how its operations stack up to yours? With the right documentation, you can fully deduct the costs of this research into your rival—even the amount you pay for their products or services—as business expenses.
Slash Employment Taxes: Take Three Steps Before Hiring Workers
You save employment taxes when you hire workers as independent contractors. But you want to make certain that the workers are indeed contractors, or you could subject yourself to some expensive tax penalties. In this article, we show you three steps to independent contractor status for your workers.
Don’t Let Expense Report Blunders Trigger Unnecessary Taxes, Punishing You and Your Employees
If you reimburse your employees for business expenses, or if you operate your business as an S or a C corporation, it’s crucial that you know and follow the IRS accountable plan rules—this will save money not only for you but also for your employees. We’ll give you two easy-to-use tools that will help you seamlessly incorporate these rules into your business routine.
Legally Escape the 50 Percent Tax on Goodwill Value When You Sell or Liquidate Your Corporation
If you own a corporation, you need to plan in advance for the eventual sale or liquidation of your corporation—even if you do not expect either to happen anytime soon. In particular, the planning you do regarding your business goodwill could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax savings.
Don’t Settle for a 50 Percent Write-Off on Employee Lunches: Here’s How to Snag 100 Percent
Through a simple two-step process, you can fully deduct the cost of meals you provide to your employees. That’s right—this strategy helps you avoid the dreaded 50 percent reduction for entertainment expenses. But be careful when you use this strategy—your business may need to classify your meal differently from the meals for non-owner employees.
How to Beat the Absurd New IRS Rule on Taxable Reimbursements of Employee Health Insurance
The IRS just launched its latest attack on your reimbursements for individually purchased health insurance: Even fully taxable reimbursements could still violate the Obamacare rules and expose you to the $100-per-day penalties. But don’t worry. We’ll give you several strategies to beat this new rule.
