Tax Planning for Sole Proprietors and Other Business Owners WEBCAST
Overview
Individuals are leaving the workforce in droves due to retirement or resignation, and many are choosing to start their own businesses. This course explores the planning opportunities for those starting their own businesses or advising clients. Issues addressed include making sure you will be treated as a business, choice of entity, Schedule C deductions, depreciation, avoiding the self-employment tax, retirement plans, self-employed health insurance, employing family members, and loss limitations.
Highlights
Using the independent contractor rules and hobby loss rules to ensure the activity is a trade or business Reviewing Schedule C deductions for travel, meals, transportation, employee fringe benefits, costs of goods sold, depreciation, and home offices Maximizing the benefits from 1040 deductions for Keogh plans, Solo 401(k)s, Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plans, and SIMPLE plans Taking advantage of the self-employed health insurance deduction and the qualified business income (QBI) deduction Avoiding the at-risk and passive activity loss limitations Making the right business entity election In-depth coverage of what advisers of sole proprietors and single-member limited-liability-company owners need to know
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CPAs, financial advisers, attorneys and self-employed individuals.
Objectives
Determine the risks and opportunities of starting your own business Recognize the requirements for the most-commonly claimed deductions, including transportation, employee fringe benefits, retirement plans, depreciation, and home offices Identify the importance of avoiding the at-risk and passive activity loss limitations and making the right business entity election
Preparation
None.
Notice
None.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
J. Gardner, Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC
Randy Gardner, JD, LLM, MBA, CPA, CFP ® is a professor of Tax and Financial Planning and director of the Certificate in Financial Planning program at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He is a coauthor of several books on tax issues and is also a highly rated discussion leader. In addition to teaching, Mr. Gardner works as a tax and financial planning consultant for several accounting firms and over 200 individual clients. He also serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Financial Planning and on the Board of Examiners of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, and he is a member of the Missouri Society of CPAs. Mr. Gardner earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Harvard University, his JD and MBA degrees from the University of Kansas, and a Master of Law in Taxation from the University of Missouri - Kansas City.
Non-Member Price $399.00
Member Price $299.00