Overview
Section 199A is easily the least understood topic of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Your clients will look to you for explanations and best practices to maximize the 20% deduction. Pass-through entities and real estate investors stand to gain valuable tax cuts, and the average practitioner cannot afford to be uninformed on Section 199A. This program incorporates the experiences many tax practitioners had over the last tax season calculating and applying this deduction. This course will cover all relevant facets and nuances of the deduction, as well as implementation issues and lessons that will be useful in advising clients this year. This program will include all relevant IRS guidance.
Major Topics:
- Latest guidance issued by the IRS, whether by way of regulations or administrative announcements
- What happens when the taxpayer owns multiple entities; aggregation rules
- Calculating qualified business income (QBI)
- How to identify a specified service trade or business
- Taxable income limits on specified service trade or businesses
- The wage limitation and associated limits
- Maximizing the 20% deduction for pass-through entities and Schedule Cs
- Proper treatment of REIT, PTP, and Cooperative income
- Treatment of carryover amounts
- Entity choice and the Section 199A deduction
- Rental activities as a trade or business and the rental safe harbor
- Completion of Forms 8995 and 8995-A
Learning Objectives
- Understand how the 20% deduction for pass-through entity owners works
- Implement the benefits of this deduction for income tax returns
Format
- On-Demand Webcast – 4 CPE credits – $89
- Downloadable PDF – 4 CPE credits – $65
- Textbook – 4 CPE credits – $80
Can you explain the differences among the three self-study formats? An on-demand webcast is a recorded streaming version of a live webinar, featuring PowerPoint slides, audio and, in some cases, video. An online download course is a text-based PDF that you can download or print. With a textbook, the course material is shipped to you in a three-ring binder. In all three formats, the CPE exam is taken online.
