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Married Couples May Save Thousands By Filing Form 1040 Separately For 2021

Married Couples May Save Thousands By Filing Form 1040 Separately For 2021

I have spoken with a few practitioners who have found, when they looked at this that the negatives of separate filing swamp the credit savings.  There is also a concern about getting paid for the extra work.  It is clear that there is something worth looking at here.  Unfortunately, retired as I am from active practice, I don’t have the right software to study the problem efficiently. The magic number seems to be a couple with adjusted gross income over $150,000 for both the child credit and possibly picking up economic impact payments.

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Major New York Landlord Tripped Up By Like-Kind Exchange Technicality

Major New York Landlord Tripped Up By Like-Kind Exchange Technicality

I think it is rather unfortunate that neither the Tax Court nor the Second Circuit got to the substance of the arguments.  What is supposed to happen if you by an undivided interest in real estate and all of a sudden you find yourself a partner in a partnership you did not know existed?  Generally speaking you can’t become somebody’s partner without them letting you in and you can’t be drafted into a partnership.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.