Live Stream: Individual and Financial-Planning Tax Camp
145 | Livestream | Intermediate | Scheduled
Description
Each year brings its own set of tax planning challenges, and this year is no exception. This course aims to arm tax planners with planning strategies and ideas that all clients, but in particular, wealthy clients, middle-income clients, and closely held business owners need to consider right now to take advantage of present opportunities and plan for future tax advantages. Learn strategies that can really have an impact on client lives, while also bringing value to you and your firm. This material is continuously updated for recent legislation impacting individual taxpayers.
Credits
| Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
|---|---|
| 8.00 | Taxes |
| 8.00 | CFP |
| 6.75 | CLE |
Designed For
Those involved in tax planning for individuals, including those who may be partners or shareholders
Prerequisites
Experience in individual income tax planning and income tax return preparation
Highlights
- Comprehensive coverage of the SECURE Act 2.0
- Understanding the environment: what's new, what's expired or expiring, and what's likely to change
- Reading a tax return for developing client-specific tax strategies
- Will there be more changes in the individual tax laws?
- Changes to the lifetime estate tax exemption in light of proposed regulations
- The net investment income tax: planning for compliance
- Family income-splitting strategies that need to be considered
- Income tax issues: impact on timing of other income
- Selling a principal residence
- Two principal residences at the same time
- Use of life insurance to protect families
- Using Roth IRAs and Roth contribution programs to best advantage
- Conversions: do they still make sense?
- Taking distributions: matching timing to client requirements
- Qualified plan contributions to reduce current income and Social Security tax: implications for business owners and self-employed
- Social Security solvency issues
- Incentive Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plan considerations
- What to do about itemized deductions
- Trans-generational planning: conversions, income, and gain-splitting
- Tax benefits of HSAs and other tax-advantaged acccounts
- Recent case law, as applicable
- Identifying tax opportunities: reviewing the prior-year return to develop a plan for the future
- Planning for middle-income taxpayers: financial planning for the young, the working, and those approaching or in retirement
Objectives
- Mine a tax return for tax planning with a client
- Understand the planning implications of the current environment
- Determine the best tax strategies for retirement
- Understand tax planning for the middle-income client
Prices
- Member (Early Bird)
- $299.00
- Non-Member (Early Bird)
- $399.00
- Member
- $299.00
- Non-Member
- $399.00
Instructors
John Evanich, CPA
John L. Evanich, Jr., CPA, is a retired tax partner, formerly with CohnReznick, LLP -- the 10th-largest CPA firm in the country. For more than 40 years, John specialized in working with professional service businesses, LLCs, LLPs, and S corporations on tax planning and other tax matters important to them. John has represented taxpayers on hundreds of IRS appeals and court petitions. With over 40 years of experience in public accounting, John is a past president of the Connecticut Society of CPAs (CTCPA), a past member of their Board of Governors, and a former trustee of their Educational Trust Fund. He is also a former member of AICPA Council. Mr. Evanich has lectured and written extensively on tax issues, both locally and nationally. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs.
In 2015 and 2016, he received the Surgent Outstanding Discussion Leader Award because of his consistently high evaluations for knowledge and presentation skills. He has also served as chairman of many CTCPA committees, most notably the Federal Taxation, State Taxation, Public Relations, and Technical Consultation Services committees.
John has also testified on tax matters of concern to middle- and upper-income taxpayers, as well as small businesses, before the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as various Connecticut state legislative committees.
Mr. Evanich received a bachelor's degree in accounting with honors from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut and completed all course work in the Master's in Taxation program at Pace University in New York City.
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