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Table of Content

1. Biden Administration Unveils Tax Blueprint
2. IRS to Recalculate Taxes for Unemployment Break
3. Planning Perspectives: Key Potential Changes Under President Biden's Tax Plan
4. How Potential Tax Reform Under the Biden Administration Could Impact ESOP Transactions
5. Know the Ins and Outs of "Reasonable Compensation" for a Corporate Business Owner
6. Simple Retirement Savings Options for Your Small Business.
7. What's on the FASB's 2021 Agenda?
8. Claiming the Business Energy Credit for Using Alternative Energy
9. What's New at Machen McChesney

Biden Administration Unveils Tax Blueprint

On March 31, 2021, the Biden administration unveiled a job and infrastructure plan, the American Jobs Plan, to address the nation's pressing infrastructure needs. The plan calls for about $2 trillion in spending over eight years. To pay for these expenditures, the plan also includes a proposed overhaul of the corporate tax system that would increase the corporate tax rate and the global minimum tax, eliminate federal tax benefits for fossil fuel companies, and strengthen enforcement against corporations. Continue reading.

IRS to Recalculate Taxes for Unemployment Break

The legislation signed in March allows taxpayers who earned less than $150,000 in modified adjusted gross income to exclude unemployment compensation up to $20,400 if married filing jointly and $10,200 for all other eligible taxpayers. The legislation excludes only 2020 unemployment benefits from taxes. Continue reading.

Planning Perspectives: Key Potential Changes Under President Biden's Tax Plan

During last year's campaign, then-candidate Joe Biden stated that he would use higher taxes to partially fund various spending priorities if he were elected president. Now that the Democrats control the White House and both the House and Senate, tax increases could be on the horizon. Details of the Biden administration's proposed tax changes are gradually coming into focus, and on March 31, President Biden unveiled his infrastructure spending plan, which will be funded in part by an increase in the corporate tax rate to 28%. Continue reading.

Know the Ins and Outs of "Reasonable Compensation" for a Corporate Business Owner

Owners of incorporated businesses know that there’s a tax advantage to taking money out of a C corporation as compensation rather than as dividends. The reason: A corporation can deduct the salaries and bonuses that it pays executives, but not dividend payments. Thus, if funds are paid as dividends, they’re taxed twice, once to the corporation and once to the recipient. Money paid out as compensation is only taxed once — to the employee who receives it. Continue reading. 

Simple Retirement Savings Options for Your Small Business.

Are you thinking about setting up a retirement plan for yourself and your employees, but you’re worried about the financial commitment and administrative burdens involved in providing a traditional pension plan? Two options to consider are a “simplified employee pension” (SEP) or a “savings incentive match plan for employees” (SIMPLE). Continue reading. 

What's on the FASB's 2021 Agenda?

In December 2020, Richard Jones stepped up as chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). After meeting with stakeholders in early 2021, Jones identified a list of high-priority projects that he plans to tackle under his leadership. Continue reading.

Claiming the Business Energy Credit for Using Alternative Energy

Are you wondering whether alternative energy technologies can help you manage energy costs in your business? If so, there’s a valuable federal income tax benefit (the business energy credit) that applies to the acquisition of many types of alternative energy property.  Continue reading.

What's New at Machen McChesney?

Sponsorships, new hires, announcements
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