If foreign tax credits exceed the limitation in a given taxable year, these can be carried back one year and forward up to ten years. Excess credits on general limitation income...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 12/25/2015
Capital gains and losses receive a special treatment under U.S tax law. Individual capital gains and losses are netted. Non corporate taxpayer’s net capital gains get a preferred...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 12/23/2015
General Income: It includes all income other than passive income. It includes most of the foreign source active business profits of domestic corporations and their foreign subsidiaries. Passive...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 12/21/2015
Taxes can be quite muddling and what complicates it even further is when people create certain myths and misconceptions about taxes. These make people wary of filing their returns...
Posted by Allan J Rolnick, CPA, CTC on 12/21/2015
After computation of creditable foreign income taxes, next step is to compute foreign tax credit limitation. Example: USAco has U.S source income = 200 Foreign source taxable...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 12/18/2015
The United States restricts the credit to foreign income taxes that duplicate the U.S income tax against which the credit is taken. Under code section 901, a foreign levy must...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 12/18/2015
Young families can keep their tax bills low by following some significant measures. Our list will help them to save for college, benefit from their flex account, and through many other...
Posted by Cheryl Panattoni Forensic Accounting and Tax Inc on 11/30/2015
Everyone wants to reduce their taxes and their taxable income, especially retirees and those who are living on a fixed income. They want to lower their tax liability more than anyone...
Posted by Cheryl Panattoni Forensic Accounting and Tax Inc on 11/30/2015
People generally try to include as many deductions as possible in their tax return forms so that they have to pay as less as possible. If you have a family member with special needs,...
Posted by Stephen Elmore on 11/30/2015
