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Delaying Mandatory Taxable IRA Distributions - Are Qualified Longevity Annuities the Answer?

People are living longer these days, and they may be concerned about outliving their retirement income, especially since tax law requires them to begin taking mandatory distributions from their retirement plans (such as IRAs) once they reach age 70.5. These distributions, called required minimum distributions (RMD), are generally determined by dividing the retirement account balance at the end of the preceding year by the individual's life expectancy from an IRS annuity table.

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Are You a Non-Filer? Ready to Escalate Problems with the IRS?

There are millions of individuals who do not file a tax return each year, many of them simply because their income is below the filing threshold levels for the year based upon their filing status.

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Where did your Federal income tax dollars go in 2015?

The National Priorities Project recently broke down the United States $4.2 trillion dollar Federal budget detailing where your tax dollars were allocated. The majority of your Federal income tax dollars go to health programs, defense and interest on the national debt.

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Combining a Vacation with a Foreign Business Trip? Here Are Some Tax Pointers

When an individual makes a business trip outside of the U.S. and the trip is 100% devoted to business, all of the ordinary and necessary business travel expenses are deductible, just as if the business trip were within the U.S. 

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Employer Offered You Health Insurance but You Got Yours through the Marketplace. You May Be in for an Unpleasant Surprise!

One of the key provisions of Obamacare is the premium tax credit (PTC), which serves as a subsidy for the cost of health insurance for lower-income individuals and families. Although the credit is determined at the end of the year based upon income, taxpayers are allowed to estimate their income and receive the credit in advance, thereby reducing their premium costs.

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