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November 2025 Newsletter
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Your 2025 Year-End Tax Planning Guide
1. Strengthen Your Business Deductions before December 31
2. Take Full Advantage of Retirement Savings Opportunities
3. Use Vehicle Deductions to Your Advantage
4. Plan for Crypto Profits and Losses
5. Don’t Overlook Deductions Hidden in Your Current Vehicles
6. Review Your Stock Portfolio for Tax Efficiency
7. Review Your Health Care Reimbursement Options
8. Make Smart, Family-Focused Tax Moves
9. Make the Most of the Section 199A Deduction
10. Review Your Year-End Tax Checklist
October 2025 Newsletter
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• Learn How to Beat 2025 Estimated Tax Penalties Instantly, Today
• Beat the OBBBA/TCJA Rules That Punish Dog Breeding Hobbies
• OBBBA Revives Your Ability to Kill Capital Gains with QOFs
• OBBBA’s Secret Gift: Bigger Tax Breaks for QCDs from Your IRA
• Selling a Term Life Insurance Policy Creates Thorny Tax Issues
September 2025 Newsletter
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• OBBBA Restores and Creates New 100 Percent Deductions for You, Now
• OBBBA: No Tax on Overtime? Not Really, but We’ll Take It!
• OBBBA: How Itemizers Can Win
• OBBBA Enhances Tax Breaks for Qualified Small Business Stock
• OBBBA Cheats Gamblers—Taxes Fictional Income
August 2025 Newsletter
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• OBBBA: Convert Personal Vehicle to Business, Deduct Up to 100%
• The OBBBA Increases the Tax Benefits of Employing Your Child
• OBBBA Adds a Possible Senior Tax Deduction (Ages 65 and Older)
• OBBBA Enhances Your SALT Deductions
• OBBBA Charitable Giving Shake-Up: Winners and Losers
• OBBBA’s New 1099 Filing Rules
July 2025 Newsletter
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• Urgent: Want an Electric Vehicle? Act by September 2025
• 2025—Your Last Chance to Claim the Solar Tax Credit
• 2025 Is Your Last Chance for Home Energy Improvement Tax Credits
• How to Qualify Conventions and Seminars for Tax Deductions
• Retire Better: The Hidden Advantages of the Defined Benefit Plan
• When Should Your S Corporation Have an S Corporation Subsidiary?
• Understanding the Gift Tax: What You Need to Know
June 2025 Newsletter
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• Your Retirement Plan Exposes You to a $150,000 Penalty
• Turn Your Corporate Vehicle into a Tax-Smart Asset
• Personal Vehicle Used for Business Can Produce a Big Surprise Deduction
• Why Landlords Should File Form 1099-NEC
• Life Insurance: You Don’t Have to Die to Collect
May 2025 Newsletter
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• IRS Makes It Harder to Use the Section 530 Safe Harbor
• Protect Yourself: Digitize Tax Receipts
• Avoid Unwanted Partnership Tax Status: Elect Out
• Greed or Goodwill? Your Motive Makes a Scam Loss Deductible
April 2025 Newsletter
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• ALERT: California, Illinois and New York Laws Require Written Freelance Agreements
• Tax Code – Defined Statutory Employees are Hybrid Self-Employed
• Beat the Estimated Tax Penalty with Strategic Withholding
• Backdoor Roth IRA Conversions: Smart Move or Hidden Tax Trap?
• Solo Biz Owner? No Employees? Is the Mega Backdoor Roth for You?
• Beat the Taxman: Use the Tax Code — Created QCD to Kill Your RMD
March 2025 Newsletter
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• Deducting Disaster Losses for Individuals: Navigating the Rules
• IRS Incorrectly Disallows $120,000 Tesla Model X Tax Write-Off
• The Best Sole Proprietorship Retirement Plans to Reduce Your 2024 Tax Bill
• The Right Way to Ask Your C or S Corporation for Travel Reimbursements
• Wildfires, Floods, Hurricanes: How the IRS has Your Back.
• Best Retirement Plan Options for a Solo-Owned C or S Corporation
February 2025 Newsletter
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• Almost the Last Chance to Claim the 2021 Employee Retention Credit!
• Beware of UBIT Lurking in Your IRA—It Causes Double Taxes
• Heavy Vehicle + Deductible Home Office = Major Tax Savings
• How to Correctly Pay Yourself and Take Cash from Your Business
• Don’t Cheat Yourself: Get Partner-Paid Expenses Right
January 2025 Newsletter
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• Court Battles Rage: File Your FinCEN BOI Report Now or Wait?
• Can Real Estate Professionals Status Free Up Old Passive Losses?
• Missed an Estimated Tax Payment — Now What?
• Tax-Free Home Sale: When and Why You Need to Report to the IRS
December 2024 Newsletter
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• Game On: TCJA Winners and Losers
• 2024 Year-end Tax Strategies for Crypto Investors
• Tax Credits for EVs: What’s Next?
• U.S. Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Challenge IRS Regulations
November 2024 Newsletter
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• 2024 Last-Minute Year-End General Business Income Tax Deductions
• 2024 Last-Minute Vehicle Purchases to Save on Taxes
• 2024 Last-Minute Retirement Deductions
October 2024 Newsletter
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• Three Possible Ways to Deduct Your Dog or Cat
• Got IRS Penalties? Know the Rules, Pay Nothing
• Know the Three Ways the Tax Law Treats Personal Property Rentals
September 2024 Newsletter
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• BOI Reporting Deadline Is Closing In
• Employee Retention Credit (ERC) Update
• Dept. of Labor Makes It Harder to Hire Independent Contractors
• The Supreme Court Likely Shook Up Your Buy-Sell Agreement
• Tax Deductions for Dues and Expenses of Being a Mason or a Lion
• Tax Planning to Winter in Florida and Summer in Massachusetts
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IRAs for Young Adults
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Get up to $32,220 in Sick and Family Leave Tax Credits
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New Crypto Tax Reporting Rules Are Coming Soon
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Estimated Tax Penalties
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The IRS Annual Dirty Dozen List
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Tax Implications of Selling Qualified Improvement Property (QIP)
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Corporate Transparency Act Requires BOI Reporting to FinCEN
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New 1099-K Filing Rules Delayed Again
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Do You Qualify as a Tax Law–Defined Professional Gambler?
- New FinCEN Filings Go into Effect on January 1
- Beat the Net Investment Income Tax
- Deducting Start-up Expenses for a Rental Property
- Last-Minute Year-End General Business Income Tax Deductions
- Last-Minute Year-End Tax Strategies for Your Stock Portfolio
- Last-Minute Year-End Medical Plan Strategies
- Last-Minute Year-End Retirement Deductions
- Last-Minute Section 199A Tax Reduction Strategies
- Last-Minute Year-End Tax Strategies for Marriage, Kids, and Family
- 2023 Last-Minute Vehicle Purchases to Save on Taxes
- 2023 Last-Minute Year-End Tax Deductions for Existing Vehicles
- Donating Clothing to Goodwill and The Salvation Army
- Deduct Travel by Car, Train, Plane, or Boat
- Tax-Free Rental Income with the Augusta Rule
- ICHRA Unleashed: Transforming Small Business Health Benefits
- Key Insights on the ICHRA for Small Businesses
- Update on State Pass-Through Entity Taxes Beating the SALT
- Strategic Insights for Employing Your Spouse
- The Kiddie Tax and How to Avoid It
- The QSEHRA Health Plan
- Act Now to Qualify for Your 2020 and 2021 ERC Money
- Claim Your 2020 COVID Sick and Family Leave Credits Today
- The Cleaning Lady and Your Home-Office Deduction
- Shutting Down a C Corporation
- Tax Credits for Electric Vehicles: The Latest from the IRS
- Using Family Loans to Secure Better Home Loan Interest Rates
- Basic Estate Planning
- One Ugly Rule for S Corp Owners Deducting Health Insurance
- Know the $75 Rule for Business Expenses
- If I Hire My Kids, Can I Give Them Tax-Free Education Benefits?
- Business Gym for Your Employees, and Maybe You Too
- Take Advantage of the Once- in-a-Lifetime IRA-to-HSA Rollover
- Holding Real Property in a Corporation: Good or Bad Idea?
- Helicopter View of 2023 Meals and Entertainment
- Are You a Regular Investor or a Tax-Favored Securities Trader?
- Avoid This Family-Member S Corporation Health Insurance Mistake
- 2023 Health Insurance for S Corporation Owners: An Update
- SECURE 2.0 Act Creates New Tax Strategies for RMDs
- Plan Your Passive Activity Losses for Tax-Deduction Relevance
- When Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income Can Be Tax-Free
- Is Airbnb Rental Income Subject to Self-Employment Tax?
- How to Section 1031 Exchange into a Delaware Statutory Trust
- $80 Billion to the IRS: What It Means for You
- Section 1031 Exchanges vs. Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds
- Use In-Kind RMDs to Avoid Selling Retirement Account Assets
- Last-Minute Year-End General Business Income Tax Deductions
- Last-Minute Year-End Tax Strategies for Your Stock Portfolio
- Last-Minute Year-End Medical Plan Strategies
- Last-Minute Year-End Retirement Deductions
- Last-Minute Section 199A Tax Reduction Strategies
- Last-Minute Year-End Tax Strategies for Marriage, Kids, and Family
- Earn 9.62 Percent Tax- Deferred Interest with Series I Bonds
- New and Improved Energy Tax Credits for Homeowners
- Claiming the ERC When You Own Multiple Entities
- New Business Tax Credits for Your Electric Vehicle Purchases
- Claim Your 2020 and 2021 ERC Now (Yes, in 2022)
- Earn 9.62 Percent Tax- Deferred with Series I Bonds
- Investing in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS)
- Self-Employment Tax Basics
- Self-Employment Taxes for Partners and LLC Members
- New 62.5 Cents Mileage Rate
- Paying Your Child: W-2 or 1099?
- Alert: A Massive New FinCEN Filing Requirement Is Coming
- Deduct a Cruise to Mexico
- Are Self-Directed IRAs for Real Estate a Good Idea?
- The IRS Wants to Know about Your Crypto