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TAX PLANNING 101: Busting the Myth that Tax Planning is Only for the Rich! Part 1

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There are thousands of court-tested, law-abiding strategies that help the 1% avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes year after year, like the ProPublica article “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax.” To find a Certified Tax Planner near you, click here.

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How to Be Tax-Efficient with Your Retirement Income: The Bucket Strategy

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Planning for retirement also means planning for retirement income taxes. Creating a tax plan for retirement will ultimately allow you to spend less money on taxes and put more toward the lifestyle you want. Pre-tax retirement funds. Tax-free retirement funds.

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Making the Most of Business Partnerships: How to Use Special Tax Allocations

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First, remember that partnerships are pass-through entities, which means that the business does not pay its own income tax. Instead the business’s income, losses, credits, and deductions “pass through” to the business owners who are taxed at personal income tax rates.

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Timing is Everything: Strategies to Lower Your Capital Gains Tax

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Know the Basics for Strategic Timing From a tax perspective, the goal is typically to move from short-term to long-term capital gains tax. Short-term capital gains are taxed at ordinary income tax rates, which will be 22% or higher for middle-to-upper-class taxpayers. Image by Sergei Tokmakov, Esq.

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Selling an S Corporation: How to Maximize Tax Savings in an Asset Sale

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This can lead to overlooking one key part of the sales process: tax planning. The decisions you make in structuring the sale will have a direct effect on later tax implications and how much of a profit you actually end up making.

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Taking Care of Your Business: Estate Planning for Business Owners

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If successful, the assets are transferred to the beneficiaries with no gift or estate tax in the remainder term. IDGTs (Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts) : The trust removes assets from the owner’s estate for gift and estate tax purposes but not income tax purposes. 13] This further reduces taxable estate.

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How to Be Tax-Efficient with Your Retirement Income: Plans for Generating Cash

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The percentage of your retirement income that gets redistributed to taxes could considerably impact your quality of life during retirement—if you don’t have a plan in place. Formulating a tax plan for retirement allows your funds to stretch much farther than they would have otherwise.

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