It doesn’t matter how much money you make or how much you have saved – there are certain asset protection tips everybody should know, and there is no excuse for not being familiar with them. Assets can be property, goods, a business or money you have saved or inherited. The term refers to anything of … Read more
“It’s not how much you make that counts,” my father told me many years ago, “but how much you keep of what you make.” I did not really understand that old adage at the time, but he was passing on some wisdom that his father had given him. It’s just common sense, but it is … Read more
HISTORICALLY, Americans have never had a great affection for being taxed. The great author and political commentator Mark Twain, once stated that the difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist is that a taxidermist only takes your skin. Thus, it usually sparks great interest whenever the Internal Revenue Service may appear willing to allow … Read more
In spite of decreasing real estate values across the nation, real estate investors continue to come up with innovative ways to make their investment turn out profitably. A powerful method for building real estate holdings is the use of 1031 Exchanges, which lets investors defer capital-gains assessment on investment property by reinvesting sale proceeds into … Read more
Inthe summer of 1990, the Internal Revenue Service announced the long awaited rules on Tax Deferred Exchanges. Section 1.1031 of the IRS Code laid out in detail the procedure for turning a sale and purchase type transaction into an Exchange. The revised rules allow owners of certain types of “like kind” real estate to sell … Read more