Income tax Flashcards
Who can NQSO be granted to
Employees, family members, independent contractors, beneficiaries of infldependt by contractor
*NOT ISOs they are only for employees of corporation
C Corps would use which accounting Method if they have a lot of inventory?
Accrual
Casualty Loss what is the tax deductibility
3
1- deductible amount is reduced by by the amount the insurance company would have paid out
2-$100 floor and a %10 AGI Limitation
3- any insurance payout lessens the lose
What are the three focuses of tax Law authorities
Statutory
Administrative
Judicial
What can you deduct for foreign travel?
3
7 days or less required no allocation for business and personal
Can deduct if less than 25% is personal
If traveler doesn’t have any control over the trip
How is an S Corp Taxed?
Pass through entity as a K-1 distribution to partners
Report income on personal returns
If greater than 2%(3%) or more are not considered employees and ineligible for deduction for group term and health
Exceptions to the Terminable Interest Rule
4
Bequest to surviving spouse by 6 months
QTIP election
A life estate with General Partnership of appointment
A lifetime income interest in a CRT where transferor is the only non spousal beneficiary
What is a 1231
Assets used in taxpayers trade or business
Ex depreciable and intangible property real property and live stock
NOT- inventory copyrights or property held for sale
QTIP
4
Qualified Terminable Interest
Allows for Terminable interest so the martial deduction can be taken
Spouse not given GP of appointment
Must pay annual income
Often used if remarried and want your first kids to have corpus of home
IRA MAGI Participant Limits
60-70k single
96-116k MFJ
Need to look this up
2032A
4
Valuation of Farms
Can reduce value of estate by 1090,000
Must use land 5 of 8 years
Qualified heirs or business partners
Bargain Sale
Selling goods at a discount to FMV
Gain= sale price -basis
Gift =FMV - sale price
Rabbi Trust
3
Used in Deferred compensation plans
Subject to creditors
Risk forfeiture
Employee is taxed at payment not when assets are promised initially
Imputed Interest
- is lending below federal interest rate
- less than 10,000 no imputed interest
- greater than 10k but less than 100k is difference in federal rate and loan rate up to net investment income
- greater than 100k difference
Legal accounting fees how are they deducted for taxes?
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Acquiring an asset= add to basis
Rent or royalties = deduction for AGI direct deduction
Fight taxes = deduction from AGI subject to 10
Personal issue = not deductible
Ear pays premiums on EEs long term care what are the tax implications
ER payments are tax deductible and not taxed as income to EEs
American Opportunity Tax Credit
Reduce family tax dollar for dollar to first $2000 of a qualified expense and 25% on next 2000 maxing out at 500
Secular Trust
Used for Non qualified deferred compensation plans
Secure from creditors
Taxed immediately to employee because it’s protected
No risk forfeiture
Irrevocable
1244
small business losses for domestic businesses
Income levels 50-100k
Up to 1MM in losses
Can’t write off lost to a negative but extra losses can be Carried forward
Under social security survivor benefits PIA- primary insurance amount cover the following people
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Surviving spouse with dependent child under 16
Unmarried children under age 18 and dependents
Unmarried disabled dependent child who because disabled before 22
Any surviving divorced spouse over age 50 who was married to decedent over 10 years and. Who who is unmarried with no children and is disabled
Social Security definition of disabled
Inability to engage in any substantial gainful a activity which is suppose to last 12 months or result in deathly
Can deprivation be taken on a personal primary residence?
Generally speaking NO
If someone get injured in the job how is workers compensation taxed?
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Punitive damage payments are taxed(punitive are excess payment for misconduct or punishment for getting that person hurt)
Compensatory damages are NOT taxed(granted reasonably to make you whole).
Workers compensation payment are not taxed
Reimbursed medical bills are not taxed
Which contribution to a retirement account are subject to FICA FUTA?
3
Thrift saving contribution
401k elective deferrals by EEs
Salary reduction SEP contributions made by EEs
Corporations are allowed to make charitable contribution and take a deduction
Limited to 10% of corporations AGI
S corp Election can be terminated if?
More than 25% of gross receipts for 3 successive years come from passive income and the corporation has accumulated profits from operations before it was an S Corp
Charitable Donation for corporations
Deductible contributions can’t exceed 50% of AGI
Long term unrelated property donated uses the lesser of basis or FMV for deduction
Ordinary income property is the lesser of adjusted basis or FMV
Charitable contributions from and S Corp are components of the K1 distributions
Exception to UBIT
Unrelated business taxable income
ESOP securities lurched with bored funds(LESOP)
Dividends
Royalties
Interest
Entity Theory
When partners make deals(pay salary) from their own partnerships
The taxable amount of income is equal to
The salary + their portion of the difference between salary and total partnership income
Annual depreciation tax deduction in the first year only
The adjusted basis =
The year FMV - the salvage value divided by the useful life ….. Then you dived by two
Taxation of life policies for tranfer of value
If you purchase a life policy in anticipation of realizing a gain your taxable amount is=
The DB - the amount paid