Net Investment Income Tax

Dear Client, Beginning in 2013, a new tax, the “net investment income tax,” or NIIT, applies at a rate of 3.8% of the “net investment income” of individuals, estates, and trusts with income above certain statutory amounts. For individuals, the threshold amounts are: • $200,000 for single taxpayers and heads of household; • $250,000 for Read More

Small Business Help From The 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act

Dear Client, In addition to permanently extending the Bush-era tax cuts for most taxpayers, revising tax rates on ordinary and capital gain income for high-income individuals, modifying the estate tax, providing permanent relief from the AMT, and imposing limits on the deductions and exemptions of high-income individuals, the recently enacted 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act Read More

AMT Relief From The American Taxpayer Relief Act

Dear Client, I am writing to provide details regarding key provisions in the recently enacted 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act which provide permanent 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 2011, meaning that Read More

Phishing Scams: Don’t Get “Hooked”

Phishing Scams are a type of identity theft designed to steal money from unsuspecting victims via email, telephone, fax, regular mail, pop-up messages, and even text messages.   How to recognize a potential phishing email: Spelling and Grammar are poor Links in the email usually link to a spoof of a well known company. Threats Read More