December 21, 2010
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Return of the estate tax in the 2010 Tax Relief Act
The estates of wealthy individuals who died in 2010 didn’t pay any federal estate tax, but that situation is about to change. Under the recently enacted “Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010,” the federal estate tax, which disappeared for 2010, springs back to life in 2011 and is imposed at […]
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AMT relief in the 2010 Tax Relief Act
There are two key provisions in the recently enacted “Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010.” The provisions extend partial relief to individual taxpayers from the alternative minimum tax, or AMT. Earlier temporary measures to deal with the unintended creep of the AMT’s reach expired at the end of 2009, meaning […]
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Overview of the tax provisions in the 2010 Tax Relief Act
The newly enacted “Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010” signed into law on December 17, 2010 is a sweeping tax package that includes, among many other items, an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for two years, estate tax relief, a two-year “patch” of the alternative minimum tax (AMT), a […]
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2011 Withholding Tables Released
The Internal Revenue Service today released instructions to help employers implement the 2011 cut in payroll taxes, along with new income-tax withholding tables that employers will use during 2011. Millions of workers will see their take-home pay rise during 2011 because the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 provides a […]
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Displaced Workers and Deduction for Travel Expenses
In today’s economy, employees may be displaced from long-held jobs. They travel to new assignments and locations as businesses cut costs. Sometimes, employees may have to choose between being laid off or reassigned. In these situations, workers have often tried to deduct business or employment travel under IRC § 162(a)(2). Usually, CPAs must tell them […]
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