Announcements

September is National Preparedness Month.  Unfortunately with hurricane season here and the ongoing threat of wildfires in some parts of the country, it is important for us to remind our clients to prepare for natural disasters and have an emergency plan in place.

All taxpayers, from individuals to organizations and businesses, should take time now to create or update their emergency plans.  This plan should include securing and duplicating essential tax and financial documents, creating lists of property, and knowing where to find information once a disaster has occurred.

Be Secure

It is best if you keep critical original documents inside waterproof containers and in a secure place.  Documents such as tax returns, birth certificates, deeds, titles, and insurance policies should also be duplicated and kept with a trusted person outside the area […]

President Biden’s team has released additional information on the Made in America Tax Plan outlining proposed tax changes including raising corporate and individual tax rates.  Other proposals include taxing capital gains for high income taxpayers at ordinary income rates, changes to basis step up on inherited property and 1031 exchanges.

Additional details can be found here.  With the 2018 Tax Cut and Jobs act there were many revisions from the initial proposals in 2016, but this gives us an idea of what the White House is looking to accomplish.

Although vote counting continues and legal challenges to the election endure, many news media organizations have projected that former Vice President Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021.

The House of Representatives will remain under Democratic control, but control of the Senate is somewhat less certain since the balance of power will be determined in January 2021 following a run-off election for two open Senate seats in Georgia. The run-off is necessary because neither of the candidates in either of the races obtained more than 50% of the total vote count as required by the state’s election law. A win by the two Democratic candidates would shift the balance of power in the Senate from one of GOP control […]