SALT deduction

Clients often underutilize deductions for work-related technology purchases and travel expenses.

Under new rules, small business owners can offer their workers tax-free dollars to buy health coverage.

Outperformance has been driven in part by a push among investors to cut their tax bills after new limits were set on state and local deductions.

It’s not just clients in high-tax states buying up muni bonds.

“The more ties you cut, the better — auditors like to see a moving van and an itemized list of what was moved,” one lawyer says.

Taxpayers won’t get big federal write-off above state credit.