Description
Each year brings its own set of tax planning challenges, and this year of sweeping tax reform presents more challenges than most. This course aims to arm tax planners with planning strategies and ideas that wealthy clients, middle-income clients, and closely held business owners need to consider right now to take advantage of present opportunities and plan for future tax advantages. Learn strategies that can really have an impact on client lives, while also bringing value to you and your firm.
Highlights
- Understanding the environment: what’s new, what’s expired or expiring, and what’s likely to change
- Review of new tax reform
- Reading a tax return for developing client-specific tax strategies
- Will there be more changes in the individual tax laws?
- New alimony rules
- Family income-splitting strategies that need to be considered
- Income tax issues: impact on timing of other income, selection of investments
- Using Roth IRAs and Roth contribution programs to best advantage
- Taking distributions: matching timing to client requirements
- Qualified plan contributions to reduce current income and Social Security tax: implications for business owners and self-employed
- Prioritizing allocations among investment, retirement, and college funding vehicles
- What to do about itemized deductions in light of the higher standard deduction
- Trans-generational planning: income and gain-splitting
- Identifying tax opportunities: reviewing the prior-year return to develop a plan for the future
- Planning for middle-income taxpayers: financial planning for the young, the working, and those approaching or in retirement
Objectives
- Mine a tax return for tax planning with a client
- Understand the planning implications of the current environment
- Determine the best tax strategies for retirement
- Understand tax planning for the middle-income client
Designed For
Those involved in tax planning for individuals who need to go beyond basic tax and financial planning techniques
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Course Pricing
WYOCPA Member Fee
$259.00
Non-Member Fee
$259.00
Your Price
$259.00
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