article thumbnail

Why Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) Aren’t Always Worth The ‘Triple Tax Savings’ Advantage

Nerd's Eye View

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) have become an increasingly popular tool for financial advisors and their clients due in part to the 'triple tax savings' they offer: tax-deductible contributions, tax-free growth, and non-taxable distributions for qualifying expenses.

Taxes 233
article thumbnail

#FASuccess Ep 421: Integrating Tax Preparation Without Hiring In-House CPAs To Bring More Tax-Focused Value, With Daniel Friedman

Nerd's Eye View

What's unique about Daniel, though, is how his firm has expanded its tax focus to include "in-house" tax return preparation for its clients as a one-stop shop, but actually outsources the tax preparation work itself to trusted CPAs that he pays out of his own revenue (rather than bringing this service fully in-house) so that he can focus his staff (..)

Taxes 205
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Using Section 351 Exchanges To Tax-Efficiently Reallocate Portfolios With Embedded Gains

Nerd's Eye View

Because when it comes time to rebalance the portfolio to its asset allocation targets – or to reallocate the portfolio to a new strategy – any trades made to implement those changes can generate capital gains, resulting in tax consequences for the investor. Read More.

Taxes 144
article thumbnail

Don’t Fall into the Tax-Deferment Trap

Wealth Management

A single-minded strategy of tax avoidance is often not in a client’s best interest.

Taxes 339
article thumbnail

The CPA Firm Growth Strategy: From Compliance to Consulting

Speaker: Rita Keller - President of Keller Advisors, LLC

You've worked diligently and have built a glowing reputation grounded in your excellent skills in tax, accounting, and auditing. You're known as the “go-to” person when a client is faced with tax and financial decisions. You have a very successful firm -- but that’s not enough.

article thumbnail

At the Money: Meb Faber on Tax Aware ETFs

The Big Picture

Would you like to diversify but also defer paying big capital gains taxes? I’m Barry Ritholtz and on today’s edition of at the money we’re going to discuss how to manage concentrated equity positions with an eye towards diversification and managing big capital gains taxes. None of these solutions are optimal.

Taxes 130
article thumbnail

Can U.S. Foreign Tax Credits Offset the Net Investment Income Tax?

Wealth Management

foreign tax credits offsetting the net investment income tax. Three recent court cases have examined this issue of U.S.

Taxes 263
article thumbnail

10 Things You Need to Know About Payroll-Only Registration

This option allows foreign employers with no entity in-country to make special “payroll-only” registrations with in-country tax and social security bodies so they can issue a local payroll. Simple, right? Before you go forward with payroll-only registration as a solution, you should know it’s more complex than just filing some paperwork.