Tax planning

Qualified small business stock may lose a lot of its value if congressional proposals go through.

The bipartisan infrastructure bill includes requirements for brokers to report their customers’ cryptocurrency gains to the Internal Revenue Service, but exactly what constitutes a broker is stirring controversy.

Even professionals such as accountants and attorneys who may serve as trustees are unaware of the numerous risks that life insurance policies carry.

Using private placement life insurance to avoid taxes is getting more popular, some financial advisors say.

Will the giant tax incentive thrive as a tool to defer, minimize and eliminate capital gains tax?

The IRS has blessed at least one approach to getting around the TCJA limitation — the entity-level tax.

A Treasury Department spokesperson gave an answer that provides clarity for advisors with affluent clients.

The $1 million threshold at which the 23.8% capital gains rate would nearly double has sparked questions — and a strategy for some well-paid professionals.

Experts and leading practitioners are looking at ways to mitigate the possible affect of the legislation from a tax perspective.

Most advisors don’t know about the tax benefit for qualified small business stock, which can put millions of dollars tax-free into an entrepreneur-client’s bank account.

Sure, you might have to actually pay U.S. taxes on those crypto trades. But at least it will be easier to figure out how much you owe.

IRS regulations are complicated, conflicting and rife with gray areas, but clients are still deluging advisors with questions about how Peter Thiel's strategy could work for them.

The recent change in presidency is set to bring about substantial changes in the way high-net worth individuals are taxed in relation to capital gains.

The near doubling of the capital gains tax rate would have a large impact on the net profit from any sale of any capital asset.

It’s counterintuitive, but the cash benefit of delaying payouts can outweigh rate increases, thanks to compounding over time.

Advisors will walk a fine line as they reinforce fundamentals while leveraging market and tax-policy uncertainty, says Clayton Bland of CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth.

The proposed changes are worrying investors and their tax advisors, especially the possibility of making them retroactive.

Group of Seven leaders are expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system when they meet this weekend.

Even with a 15-year window to pay taxes, a near-doubling of the capital gains rate and the elimination of the step-up in basis loophole will make a sale expensive.

While after-tax funds in employer-sponsored plans are tracked by plan administrators, clients are on their own with traditional IRAs, Jeffrey Levine writes.