Those who want to contribute annually to a Roth but exceed the income cap may also take advantage of
a loophole in the tax law by doing a backdoor conversion, which entails contributing money to a traditional, nondeductible IRA each year and then immediately converting it into a Roth.
The focus of the report was the sale of «boutique» tax avoidance schemes which exploit
loopholes in the tax law to reduce the amount the client pays.
The second way you can give the taxman the miss is to exploit
loopholes in tax laws in order to earn outsized tax deductions.
Not exact matches
Under the Trump
tax plan,
loopholes for real estate investors like him and his son -
in -
law Jared Kushner will be bigger than ever.
Rockefeller expects state and local
tax revenues to fluctuate over the coming quarters as a result of the
tax bill, as high - income taxpayers look for new
loopholes in the
law and adjust their behavior accordingly.
What's more, the
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was signed into law in December 2017, officially closed the tax loophole that allows crypto investors to use the like - kind exchange to sidestep taxati
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was signed into
law in December 2017, officially closed the
tax loophole that allows crypto investors to use the like - kind exchange to sidestep taxati
tax loophole that allows crypto investors to use the like - kind exchange to sidestep taxation.
The
tax bill, signed into
law in June 2001, failed to remove
loopholes, and it reduced
taxes, largely for the wealthy, by $ 1.35 trillion across a ten - year period.
There are five or six major landholders who are benefiting from
loopholes in the
laws and administrative shortcomings, and who are thus accruing all the value
in the appreciation
in land without being
taxed.
A coalition of labor unions, religious groups, and others are urging Governor Cuomo and the legislature to close what they say are
loopholes in the
law that protect large corporations from paying their fair share of
taxes.
It appears NRG still qualified for a 100 - percent refund of its property
taxes because of a
loophole in the zone
law.
The combined fiscal impact of the six «100 hours» bills (which implement 9/11 Commission recommendations, close energy
tax loopholes and more) is significant: the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated $ 21.1 billion
in savings and revenue over the next ten years if the bills are signed into
law.
Empire Zone
tax credits also went to real estate management companies, power plants, lawyers and accountants - people
in industries that were not
in danger of leaving New York state, and people who were
in the best position to know the
laws and its
loopholes.
The study detailed
loopholes in the federal
tax law that states and some taxpayers could exploit to preserve the benefit of the state and local
tax deduction, or SALT.
DeFrancisco's Syracuse
law firm received $ 187,525
in state
tax credits between 2002 and 2013 by taking advantage of a
loophole under the now - defunct Empire Zone program that was designed to attract big businesses and jobs to needy areas, public records show.
This change
in EU
law is designed to close that specific
tax loophole, and provide a level playing - field for everyone.
But again, we'll see if this «
loophole»
in tax law lasts the next round of
tax overhaul legislation.
There are major differences
in how the new
tax law and its various
loopholes affect different industries, according to InvestmentNews.
Until recently a controversial
loophole existed
in the
tax law allowing buyers of high - end luxury SUVs, to write - off the entire expense of the vehicle
in the year of purchase.
For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times
in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than
in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits
in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined
in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of
tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and
loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and
tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.
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in researching
tax laws and regulations, aiming to ensure that
loopholes and problems are dealt with appropriately.