by Randy Luebke | Aug 20, 2021 | 1-Financial Independence Planning, Blog Posts, College Planning, Financial Edification, Newsletter, The 4 Essential Elements, The 4x4 Financial Independence Plan
Retirement Planning A 60/40 Portfolio Can Be Hazardous to Your Financial Health For the last several decades, conventional wisdom in the financial services industry has been that a prudent way to invest money, one that will provide sufficient yield and a hedge against...
by Randy Luebke | Aug 9, 2021 | 4-Tax Planning, Blog Posts, College Planning, Financial Edification, Newsletter, The 4 Essential Elements, The 4x4 Financial Independence Plan
Tax Planning The Reality of Self-Employment Taxes for 2021 What happens when lawmakers enact a new tax? It starts small. It looks easy. In 1935, the self-employment tax topped out at $60. Those 1935 lawmakers must be twirling in their graves with the new rules for...
by Randy Luebke | Aug 1, 2021 | 4-Tax Planning, Blog Posts, College Planning, Financial Edification, Newsletter, The 4 Essential Elements, The 4x4 Financial Independence Plan
Tax Planning Hire Your Kids to Work In Your LLC or Sole Proprietorship and Put a Huge Chunk of Their Pay Back in Your Pocket Bradford Tax Institute Estimated tax tip savings. Pay your child $8,000, for example, to work in your LLC or sole proprietorship and you could...
by Randy Luebke | Aug 1, 2021 | 4-Tax Planning, Blog Posts, College Planning, Financial Edification, Newsletter, The 4 Essential Elements, The 4x4 Financial Independence Plan
Tax Planning Creating More Business Meal Tax Deductions After the TCJA Bradford Tax Institute Here’s good news for business meals: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) removed the “directly related and associated with” requirements from business meals. The net effect of...
by Randy Luebke | Aug 1, 2021 | 4-Tax Planning, Blog Posts, College Planning, Financial Edification, Newsletter, The 4 Essential Elements, The 4x4 Financial Independence Plan
Tax Planning When the Second Office In a Home is a Principal Place of Business Bradford Tax Institute When possible, you want to claim that your office in your home qualifies as a principal place of business, because this classification: gives you the home-office...
by Randy Luebke | Aug 1, 2021 | 4-Tax Planning, Blog Posts, College Planning, Financial Edification, Newsletter, The 4 Essential Elements, The 4x4 Financial Independence Plan
Tax Planning How to Deduct the Costs of Thinking about Starting a New Business Bradford Tax Institute Are you thinking about starting a new business? If so, congratulations. We know it can, and probably will, be an exciting ride. But like many other exciting rides...