2020 Last-Minute Year- End General Business Income Tax Deductions
Advantage Tax and Business Services Tax-Saving Tips November 2020 For a cash-basis taxpayer, qualifying expenses 2020 Last-Minute Year- include lease payments on business vehicles, rent payments on offices and machinery, and business End General Business and malpractice insurance premiums. Income Tax Deductions Example. You pay $3,000 a month in rent and would like a $36,000 deduction this year. So on Your goal should be to get the IRS to owe you Thursday, December 31, 2020, you mail a rent money. Of course, the IRS is not likely to cut you a check for $36,000 to cover all of your 2021 rent. check for this money (although in the right Your landlord does not receive the payment in the circumstances, that will happen), but you’ll realize mail until Tuesday, January 5, 2021. Here are the the cash when you pay less in taxes. results: Here are seven powerful business tax-deduction You deduct $36,000 in 2020 (the year you strategies that you can easily understand and paid the money). implement before the end of 2020. The landlord reports taxable income of 1. Prepay Expenses Using the IRS $36,000 in 2021 (the year he received the Safe Harbor money). You just have to thank the IRS for its tax-deduction You get what you want—the deduction this year. safe harbors. IRS regulations contain a safe-harbor The landlord gets what he wants—next year’s entire rule that allows cash-basis taxpayers to prepay and rent in advance, eliminating any collection problems deduct qualifying expenses up to 12 months in while keeping the rent taxable in the year he expects advance without challenge, adjustment, or change it to be taxable.
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