Entries by IslerNW

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Estate Tax Exemption Doubled under Tax Reform

Article Highlights Estate Tax Exemption Unused Exemption Portability Annual Gift Tax Exemption Check Your Beneficiaries Note: This is one of a series of articles explaining how the various tax changes made by the GOP’s Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (referred to as “the Act” in the article), passed late in December 2017, might affect you […]

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Living Abroad? Here Is How Tax Reform May Affect You

If you are an expatriate living abroad, you may be wondering how the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will impact you. This is the most extensive tax change in over 30 years, and although it was touted as tax simplification when it was in the planning stages, nothing was simplified related […]

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Can’t Pay Your Taxes by the April Due Date?

Article Highlights: What to Do If You Can’t Pay Loans Credit Card Payments IRS Installment Agreements Retirement Funds If you aren’t one of those lucky Americans who gets a tax refund from the IRS you might be wondering about your options for paying off your tax liability by the April due date. The IRS encourages […]

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Where Do You Fall In The Tax Pecking Order?

Article Highlights: 2015 Overall Filing Statistics Statistics by Adjusted Gross Income Percentile Table Ever wonder where your income puts you in comparison with the rest of the U.S. taxpayers? Each year the Internal Revenue Service publishes a Statistics of Income Bulletin. The latest set of figures is for 2015 tax returns and provides some interesting […]

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Cryptocurrencies and Taxes

Article Highlights: Virtual Currency Valuation Transactions Character of the Gain or Loss Foreign Currency Transactions Foreign Bank and Financial Account (FBAR) Reporting Payment for Goods & Services Acquiring Virtual Currency Virtual Currency Mining Employee Payments Independent Contractor Payments As our world has become more and more “digital,” it was only a matter of time before […]

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Tax Reform Limits Exchanges to Defer Taxes

Article Highlights: Deferring Tax with Like-Kind Exchanges Changes Made by Tax Reform Impact on Trade-ins Note: This is one of a series of articles explaining how the various tax changes made by the GOP’s Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (referred to as the “Act” in the article), passed late in December 2017, might affect you […]

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How to Save Money on the Biggest Expenses in Your Budget

Article by Anna Bahney | Found on CNN Want to find some real savings in your budget? Cutting out lattes and avocado toast probably isn’t the way to go. Housing, transportation and food: that’s what Americans spend almost 70% of their money on, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sure, you can always cut back on […]