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
Tax season sends everyone into a frenzy and people who are often quite adept at their filing their taxes also are caught in the madness and end up making mistakes. This is often...
Posted by Asharp Bookkeeper 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
The National Association of Enrolled Agents reports even smart taxpayers can make mistakes, while filing their taxes. This is because of the complex tax code that confuses not...
Posted by ERNIE BUSTAMANTE on 11/29/2015
Bases for asserting jurisdictions Who to tax? What income to tax? Personal relationship between a taxpayer and the country This concept also applies to corporations and other type...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 10/13/2015
Gross income comes from following categories of income: Interest, Dividends, Personal Services, Rentals, Royalties, Gains from disposition of property. Leasing generates rental income....
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 03/05/2015
Source of income can have significant impact on calculation of foreign tax credit limitation. Formula for foreign tax credit limitation = Pre-credit U.S tax x foreign...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 02/18/2015
