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How Should a Small Business Owner Plan for Rising Taxes?

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But with the increasing complexity of modern business and regulations, and a worsening shortage of CPAs, the truth is that small business accountants rarely help clients optimize their tax strategies. Still, the failure to recognize the importance of proper tax planning adds up. So what should business owners do?

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Tax Authorities Set an Aggressive Schedule for Global Minimum Tax

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The Global Minimum Tax is the latest initiative spinning off of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In a recent report for Checkpoint , Robert Rizzi, a tax partner with Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington and New York, noted that U.S.

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Selling Your Business? Personal Goodwill Can Reduce Your Tax Burden

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If $2 million is instead allocated to personal goodwill, then this amount is taxed to the business owner as a capital gain, resulting in a savings of over $1 million because the personal goodwill is not subject to the corporate tax rate of over 30% and is taxed at the individual level only as a capital gain.

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Democrats’ Latest Child Tax Credit Plan Pushes Bonus for Babies

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There was also an option to take some or all of the credit as a lump sum when filing annual tax returns. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, Suzan DelBene of Washington and others would increase the size of the credit in the month a baby is born to $2,000. The new legislation from Democratic Reps. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y.,

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