The link above will provide you with eight significant ways to reduce your 2009 tax burden.
For taxpayers who incurred losses in 2009, the article provides ways to quickly monetize these losses via obtaining refunds through carryback of the losses for up to five years.
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Before we get into year-end tax planning, let’s focus on job creation for a moment. President Obama held his White House “Jobs Summit” – without a few key business organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce which represents over 3 million companies and over 115 million employees.
Another stimulus package is being discussed, but a focus on job creation and tax reduction will be the best short-term strategy. There are numerous federal and state programs which allow employers to claim credits ranging from $500 to $15,000 per “qualified” employee. The Obama Administration needs to focus on refundable hiring credits, an investment tax credit for purchasing equipment and incentives for loaning funds or making equity investments in small businesses.
For a full library of articles focused on these tax incentive programs, please click on the following link:
2009 federal and state tax changes provide huge opportunities for both business and individual taxpayers to minimize their 2009 tax liabilities and in many cases optimize refunds from prior years.
With some effort before year-end, March and April 15th can be much less taxing — but advance planning is necessary.
Businesses and individual taxpayers have had to navigate a challenging economic landscape for at least the last two years. In addition to trying and maintain revenue levels while paring down costs, businesses and homeowners have found their financing options dramatically limited.
Therefore it is critically important for both businesses and individual taxpayers to carefully plan now for their year-end to ensure that they minimize their federal and state tax obligations – and insome cases – secure refunds for prior tax years.
As more fully detailed in the attached links to a variety of articles addressing topics raanging from:
- How to maximize tax refunds via the carryback of 2009 tax losses – including the recently passed 5 year federal carryback option for all businesses:
http://www.blakechristian.com/blog/?s=tax+loss
- How to maximize write-off of wholly and partially worthless bad debts
- Taking full advantage of federal and state depreciation and immediate write-off of equipment and other capital expenditures:
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Claiming the wide variety of federal and state green/ eco-credits:
http://www.blakechristian.com/green_tax_incentives.html
- Claiming valuable federal and state Location-Based Investment Credits (LBICs) for hiring employees and making capital investments in any one of the 8,500+ incentive tax Zones. There are over 42 state Enterprise Zones in California which can often eliminate taxes in the highest rate state in the country:
http://www.cpa2biz.com/Content/media/PRODUCER_CONTENT/Newsletters/Articles_2008/CorpTax/EZstreet.jsp
2009 was an extremely active year for tax legislation and while federal changes were often beneficial for corporations and individuals, state changes, particularly California, often resulted in higher rates, less deductions and accelerated tax payment requirements.
For a full library of corporate tax articles log onto the AICPA Corporate Taxation Insider Newsletter:
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The combination of a new Administration, significant 2008 federal tax changes, including the $150 billion Rescue Package, and the $5 billion California tax increase resulting from the state budget crisis will make 2008 a very unique and opportunistic year from a tax planning perspective.
Significant federal tax breaks associated with asset acquisitions, research & development, employee hiring credits, loss carrybacks makes 2008 a critical year to perform detailed year-end tax planning.
California revisions will also require taxpayers to more carefully evaluate federal and state tax treatments in order to minimize 2008 taxable income, but avoid generating a tax loss since loss carryovers from 2007 and 2008 are suspended until 2010.
Higher income taxpayers can also expect federal and state tax increases in 2009 and future years; therefore, acceleration of income and deferral of expenses may actually reduce the overall tax burden.
The attached articles, comprehensivefederal tax guide and video provide detailed advice as to the best course of action for businesses and individual taxpayers for 2008.
Download 2008_nov_yearend_tax_planning_guidelines.doc 2008 Business and Individual Tax Summary
Download 2008_aicpa_federal_rescue_package_11.2008.pdf 2008 AICPA Federal Rescue Package Article
www.losangelesbtv.com 10 Minute Blake Christian Tax Planning and Economic Video
www.taxguideonline.com/hcvt/ HCVT 2008 Federal Tax Guide
