Contributions made with after - tax funds; earnings excluded from income for
federal tax purposes when used for qualified college expenses
Contributions made with after - tax funds; earnings excluded from income for
federal tax purposes when used for qualified college and K - 12 expenses
Not exact matches
When 529 funds are used for these qualified
purposes, there is no
federal income
tax on investment gains (no capital gains
tax, ordinary income
tax, or Medicare surtax).
Withdrawals, including any earnings, are
federal tax - free
when withdrawn to pay for qualified higher education expenses.1 Contributions are not deductible for
federal income
tax purposes.
Any amount of debt forgiven by a creditor is generally considered to be income for
tax purposes, so you will have to pay
taxes on the amount forgiven
when you file your
federal income
tax return in the year the debt forgiveness occurs.
When everything works well, that can simplify things for taxpayers, as it avoids having to use two completely different sets of rules to calculate
tax liability for
federal and state
purposes.
A second level, that we might call savings level 2, would be realized in the form of a lower
federal estate
tax at the time of the asset owner's death
when the gross estate is tallied for
federal estate
tax purposes.
Broadly speaking,
when individuals or businesses set up corporate entities in low or no -
tax foreign jurisdictions for the
purposes of avoiding
taxes in their home countries, it raises serious questions about how the
federal government should address it, including expanding the responsibilities of the Canada Revenue Agency to tighten enforcement.
For
Federal income
tax purposes, the entire amount withheld can be treated as having been made as four timely quarterly payments of estimated
tax regardless of
when the withholding actually occurred, no questions asked, and if you meet the 110 % of last year's
tax criterion, it is not necessary to go into the level of detail that Maryland wants.
The main dispute arose
when the Halifax Regional Municipality and the minister of Public Works and Government Services disagreed on the Citadel's value, which needs to be determined for
federal tax purposes.
When Parliament repeals the prohibition against drug trafficking (at least with respect to pot) it may become a by - law issue — though, given that the
federal government and the provinces continue to heavily regulate the sale of other substances such as cigarettes and alcohol, and if the sale of pot (other than for medicinal
purposes) is ever legalized we should expect it to be heavily
taxes, the notion that the sale of pot will ever only become a by - law issue seems far - fetched — but until it does it's simply wrong to say this is a by - law issue.
If you own part or all of the policy
when you die, the value of the policy can be included in your gross estate for
federal estate
tax purposes.
Charles Benway, a CPA and certified financial planner with Main Street Financial in Mount Kisco, N.Y., told me many owners are not aware that
when they pay down their original mortgage amount over a period of years, their acquisition debt for
federal tax computation
purposes declines.