CLE Presentation by Shamsey Oloko
The $10,000 SALT Limit and the Rental Real Estate
The $10,000 SALT Limit and the Rental Real Estate
Under the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, State And Local Tax (SALT) deductions are limited to $10,000. How does this affect the individual taxpayer?
QUESTION: Are SALT payments made on my rental real estate subject to the $10,000 cap?
ANSWER: Generally, under the old law, all SALT payments were deductible. However, the new law caps deductible SALT at an aggregate of $10,000 for individual taxpayers.
President Trump’s 2005 Tax Returns – What It Tells Us
President Trump’s 2005 Tax Return – What It Tells Us
Yesterday, Tuesday March 14, 2017, while most of the New England area was buried in snow, MSNBC published President Trump’s 2005 income tax return – or at least the first two pages of it. What does the return tell us and what does it not?
The Basics – We know he had a positive income in the amount of $152,737,866 and $103,201,242 in tax write-offs. He paid a total of $38,435,451 in taxes for the year.
About Trump’s Tax Plan
It remains to be seen the specific tax plan that Donald Trump will implement as President of the United States. The effects of Donald Trump’s tax plan will depend on taxpayers’ income and tax planning. Some think that Trump’s plan will significantly reduce income and corporate taxes, and eliminate the estate tax. It seems the plan’s largest effect on individual taxpayers will be to reduce the top tax bracket 6.6 percentage points from 39.6 percent to 33 percent.
The (Trump’s) Net Operating Loss (NOL), Explained
At the beginning of October, the New York Times released pages from Donald Trump’s Connecticut, New Jersey and New York 1995 tax returns, apparently reflecting that the Donald declared “other income” of negative $916 million and was prepared to forego any federal income tax liability for up to 18 years by carrying forward this “net operating loss” (NOL). So what is a net operating loss?