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Sales Tax Florida Oct 1, 2025
As of late 2025, Florida has permanently eliminated sales tax on commercial leases and made several sales tax holidays permanent. There was also a proposal in the legislature to permanently lower the overall sales tax rate, but it was not passed. New permanent tax law effective October 1, 2025 Elimination of commercial lease tax: House […]
Big Beautiful Bill – Excerpts
The BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL is over 1,000 pages…. Here is some info on a couple provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill No Tax on Tips: Effective Tax Years 2025 – 2028 The first $25,000 of tips are tax deductible. Taxes are still taken out of employees pay so it doesn’t affect paychecks. The tax benefit […]
DUE DATES EXTENDED
DUE DATES EXTENDED For all of the State of Florida, the extended due date for 2023 is May 1 2025 AND the filing due date for 2024 is May 1 2025 IRS announces tax relief for victims of Milton; various deadlines postponed to May 1, 2025 in all of Florida | Internal Revenue Service Regarding […]
2025 & 2024 MILEAGE RATES
2025 & 2024 MILEAGE RATES Standard mileage rates are used to calculate deductible vehicle operating costs for various purposes, including: Medical, moving, and charitable are unchanged from 2024. […]
QUALIFIED CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTION (QCD)
If at least 70 ½ and want to donate from your traditional IRA, DON’T take a distribution to yourself (that is taxable). Instead use the QCD rules…. Transfer up to $105k DIRECTLY from the IRA to charity. It is not taxable to you, does not affect your Adjusted Gross Income and can use it to comply with […]
WHAT IS THE LONG TERM CAPITAL GAIN TAX RATE?
That’s an excellent question. Answer is it depends! Profits from the sale or exchange of capital assets held for over a year generally taxed at 0%, 15% or 20%. The rate depends on income limits that move (adjust for inflation).. In 2024, the 0% rate applies to taxable income up to $47,025 for singles, $63,000 […]
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Gifted versus Inherited Property
If property is GIFTED, the receiver of the gift never pays a tax. The giver of the gift has to deal with gift taxes. If property with a basis (original cost plus improvements) is $200k and the property sells for $500k, there is a $300k profit and is taxable. If instead the property is INHERITED, […]
IS LIFE INSURANCE TAXABLE?
SOMETIMES the life insurance company is required to pay interest from date of death to the date they issue the check. i.e. You receive $100,010. The life insurance $100k is not taxable. The extra $10 is interest and is taxable. […]
A word of caution on property transfers…..
Let’s say you gave someone $600k of property at today’s market value. It has been owned along time and only $30k is the original purchase price. We can add improvements to the original $30k say a pool, additional room,…. Add those improvements of $40k to the $30k and we have what we call BASIS of $70k. That […]