Tax strategies

Businesses that want to accelerate year-end deductions by buying machinery and equipment have a formidable array of tax tools to work with this year, including generous expensing under Section 179 of the tax code. Here’s how to make the most of Code Sec. 179 expensing.

Accounting firm Marcum LLP has released its 2016 Year-End Tax Guide.

In the latter part of the year we begin conducting year-end planning meetings with clients. For the ones with children or grandchildren, invariably part of the meeting focuses on planning and saving for college and possibly graduate school expenses.

Republicans on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee sent a a letter Thursday to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew asking him to withdraw the Treasury’s recently proposed regulations on estate and gift taxes.

Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is elected next Tuesday, there are some tax-planning moves that will make sense for your clients no matter who gets into the Oval Office.

The 2017 tax outlook for businesses

Grant Thornton has released a collection of Year-End Tax Guides for 2016. Here are 10 of the most important 2016 tax-planning considerations for individuals.

With the 2016 presidential election dominating this fall’s news cycle, you may have overlooked an important and significant celebration—the centennial birthday of the estate tax.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Clients in business for themselves face a host of challenges. How can you best advise clients who already have their hands full making a living on their own?

(Bloomberg) For wealthy Americans, a big win by Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8 could get pretty expensive.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Prospects for year-end tax legislation

Parsing the new partnership audit rules

The perilous calculus associated with retirement

Hillary Clinton’s proposed tax increases on people with high incomes and on businesses would constrain economic growth, according to a policy group’s analysis.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Although I live a few miles from Hofstra University, the site of Monday night’s Presidential debate, I didn’t have a ticket to the event. Instead, I spent the time trying to get to the Marriott next door, where viewers were promised the chance to meet one of the candidates afterward.

A group of 41 Senate Republicans is urging the Treasury Department to drop proposed regulations that would eliminate a popular tax strategy for minimizing estate and gift taxes.