Ac553 - You Decide

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Hi John and Jane, Please find my advice and recommendations on your tax issues below: John Smith tax issues: A – The $300,000 will be included as gross income. It is compensation for services rendered. B – I am having trouble understanding this $25,000 recovery for expenses paid. Was this the amount of money the client had already paid out of his pocket for your services? Or did you suffer these expenses to work on this case? If the client is being reimbursed you will not add it as income on your tax return, but if this $25,000 is being awarded to you it will also be counted as income along with the $300,000. C – Your business is allowed as a deduction all the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on your business, including a reasonable allowance for salaries or other compensation for personal services actually rendered; traveling expenses while away from home in the pursuit of business, and rentals or other payments required to be made as a condition to the continued use or possession, for purposes of your business, of property to which you have not taken or will not take the title of in which it does not have equity. You can deduct the $25,000 as an ordinary business expense and to reduce the taxable amount of income for the $300,000 fee you may donate a portion of it to a qualifying charity. Jane Smith Tax issues: A – If you were to sell you current home your gain on the sales or exchange of your principal home would be excluded to a maximum of $500,000. I would advise you to sell the old house and use the money to purchase a new house. There are no benefits to fully paying of your mortgage; you will still be able to deduct your property tax and your interest payments with the new house. Selling your old house with a realized gain of less than $500,000 you will be able to exclude your gain and not pay

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