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- Year-end Capital Gains Strategies
- 2011 has produced some significant gyrations in the financial markets that have had an impact on everyone’s portfolios. But for tax purposes, gains and losses are not measured by the increased or decreased value of your portfolio, but by gains and losses recognized from the sale of capital assets during the year. So you still have until the end of the year to structure your gains and losses to suit your particular tax situation.
- Business Benefits Abound This Year
- There are an abundant number of provisions that provide tax relief to small businesses this year. Just so that you don’t overlook any of these benefits, or in case your business would like to position itself to take advantage of some before the close of the year, here is a brief rundown on many of the business benefits that are available for 2011. Some of these provisions are currently set to expire after December 31, 2011.
- Medical Checklist
- After 2012, the limitation on deductible medical expenses increases for most taxpayers from the current 7.5% of AGI to 10% (it remains at 7.5% for taxpayers age 65 and over through 2016). So if you need some dental work, laser eye surgery, or other elective but deductible medical procedures, you might consider doing so sooner than later to take advantage of the current lower AGI limit. (But forget that face lift or other nip and tuck procedure you’ve been thinking about - cosmetic surgery costs aren’t deductible unless related to a physical injury or disfiguring disease.) Also, if you are paying for a procedure over time, it might be appropriate to pay it all at once to increase your currently deductible medical expenses.
- Maximize Your Charitable Deductions
- As the end of the year approaches, there are still things you can do to increase and properly document your charitable contributions for 2011. Here is a brief rundown:
- Report Those Foreign Financial Connections!
- FinCEN is the acronym for the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. FinCEN is a government-wide, multisource, financial intelligence and analysis network tasked with detecting money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion, and other financial crimes. To do its job, FinCEN must collect financial data from a multitude of sources, including each U.S. person with connections to foreign financial transactions. This has resulted in a number of reporting requirements imposed upon taxpayers that many are unaware can result in draconian penalties for non-compliance.
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