To pay for the hiring incentives in the recently enacted “Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act” (the 2010 HIRE Act), Congress passed several offsetting revenue raisers, including a comprehensive set of measures to reduce offshore noncompliance by giving IRS new administrative tools to detect, deter and discourage offshore tax abuses. Here is a brief overview [...]
Inheritance Tax, also referred to as the death duty, is the set of taxes which has to be paid by the heir on inheriting the estate of a deceased person. This tax is calculated after taking the total value of the property and money into consideration. The norms of inheritance tax can differ from nation [...]
If you live in New Jersey, then you’re lucky enough to live in one of the two states that collects both a separate state inheritance tax and estate tax (the other is Maryland). Currently the following rules apply with regard to the New Jersey inheritance tax:
•Charitable organizations are exempt from the tax.
•All other beneficiaries are [...]
Where physicians are most likely to lose wealth is through bad marriages, bad investments, bad tax planning, or a combination thereof.
Our firm recently successfully filed several client’s state amnesty applications.
In the state’s press release, they mention they are increasing their enforcement efforts to collect unpaid bills.
Congress instead substituted a new system of taxation that will potentially collect more taxes from many of our clients than the estate tax.
Therefore, New Jersey also conforms to the…provision regarding the Federal Income Tax reporting of a distribution from an IRA which the taxpayer converts into a Roth IRA this year in 2010.
When you give money or property to another person as a gift, you may have to pay a gift tax. The tax is paid by the donor. The person receiving the gift does not have to pay the tax The exemptions for gifts and the gift tax rates are established by the IRS. In 2009 [...]