Entries by Raffensperger Martin Finkenbiner RMF

How to maximize deductions for business real estate

Currently, a valuable income tax deduction related to real estate is for depreciation, but the depreciation period for such property is extended, and the land itself isn’t depreciable. Whether real estate is occupied by your business or rented out, here’s how you can maximize your deductions. Segregate personal property from buildings Buildings and improvements to […]

Taxpayers don’t have to pay self-employment tax on an amount deemed to be rent paid to their chicken farm. The U.S. Tax Court ruled that a corporation, which paid its married sole shareholders both rent for farmland and wages for work they performed on the farmland, didn’t owe self-employment tax on the rent. The couple […]

A tax reform plan has been released

The Trump Administration and select members of Congress have released a “unified framework” for tax reform. It provides more detail than other tax reform documents that have emerged from the White House over the past few months, but it still leaves many specifics to be worked out by Congressional tax-writing committees (the House Ways and […]