Each year brings its own set of tax planning challenges, and this year is no exception. This course aims to arm tax planners with planning strategies and ideas that wealthy clients and closely held business owners need to consider right now. Learn strategies that can really have an impact on client lives, while also bringing value to you and your firm. The material is current with relevant provisions from The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act.
DESIGNED FOR
Those involved in tax planning for individuals who need to go beyond basic tax and financial planning techniques
BENEFITS
- Mine a tax return for tax planning with a client
- Understand the planning implications of the current environment
- Determine the best tax strategies for retirement
- Understand tax planning for the middle-income client
HIGHLIGHTS
- Understanding the environment: what’s new, what’s expired or expiring, and what’s
likely to change
- Review of pertinent changes from tax reform
- Reading a tax return for developing client-specific tax strategies
- Will there be more changes in the individual tax laws?
- The net investment income tax: planning for compliance
- Family income-splitting strategies that need to be considered
- Income tax issues: impact on timing of other income, selection of investments
- Using Roth IRAs and Roth contribution programs to best advantage
- Conversions: do they still make sense?
- Taking distributions: matching timing to client requirements
- Qualified plan contributions to reduce current income and Social Security tax:
implications for business owners and self-employed
- Prioritizing allocations among investment, retirement, and college funding
vehicles
- What to do about itemized deductions
- Trans-generational planning: conversions, income and gain-splitting
- Identifying tax opportunities: reviewing the prior-year return to develop a plan for
the future
- Planning for middle-income taxpayers: financial planning for the young, the
working, and those approaching or in retirement
COURSE LEVEL
Intermediate
PREREQUISITES
None
ADVANCE PREPARATION
None