Lawsuit form an a desk with pen and calculator getty Things have not been great for the syndicated conservation easement (SCE) industry. Late in December, two accountants who focused on SCE pled guilty to conspiracy. The circumstances of their pleas indicate that they are cooperating with the prosecution. The latest is that David Deary’s firm
Month: January 2021
Sold house sign on house in a sellers market. getty The 2020 housing market was a year of extremes. Within the span of just a few months, we saw homes bounce between hit decade highs and decade lows. Going into 2021, economists and industry players project home prices will continue rising by 5.7% in 2021 and that
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks as he announces his Justice Department nominees at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., January 7, 2020. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters President-elect Joe Biden plans to release more doses of the Covid vaccines once he takes office, breaking from the Trump administration’s policy of holding reserve doses to ensure
The Going Jessies. Derek Wood (center), Angela Paradis (right) and James Breeding (left) Photo: Derek Wood Derek Wood was about to achieve a lifelong dream. Unemployment benefits may prove to be his foil. Wood, 49, a guitar player and songwriter from the Little Rock, Ark., area, who sings with a soulful country-blues croon, quit his
Make an estimated tax payment If you’re like nearly half of Americans, you can’t remember the last time you updated your withholding, which tells your employer how much federal income tax to take out of your check. “Inaccurate withholding can lead to an unpleasant surprise come Tax Day,” says Gregory Anton, chairman of the AICPA’s
Daniel Loeb, chief executive officer of Third Point LLC, speaks at the Skybridge Alternatives conference in Las Vegas, May 18, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images In light of the global pandemic, it comes as no surprise that activism in 2020 was down. There was less 13D activism, less UTT-activism and less
Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images No, you didn’t hit the $520 million Mega Millions jackpot. The lottery game’s top prize has climbed to a whopping $600 million for Tuesday night’s drawing, following no ticket matching all six numbers drawn Friday night. The amount marks the 8th-largest jackpot in lottery history. And
A series of strategies for tax-wise investors. Table of Contents. Conversion getty You can prepay income tax on some of your IRA, making future withdrawals tax-free. This is very clever if (a) your tax bracket is fairly low at the moment, and (b) you can cover the tax bill with money from outside the account.
A series of strategies for tax-wise investors. Table of Contents. Asset handover getty You can move appreciated assets from this person to that person, in order to reduce or eliminate the tax on the capital gain. You could, for example, transfer a winning stock position to your daughter to help her pay off college loans
Marc Romanelli | Tetra images | Getty Images The Covid-19 crisis has hit Latino small businesses particularly hard, including not being able to access PPP funding at a similar rate to other business owners. And many individual proprietors or small, family-owned businesses may feel the impact of Covid more directly, as the pandemic has disproportionately
Liam Payne performs on stage during day one of Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball with Seat at London’s O2 … [+] Arena. PA Images via Getty Images Here’s one New Year’s resolution Liam Payne can already cross off his list. The singer-songwriter of One Direction fame has sold his scenic retreat in the mountains above Malibu
The new logo for General Motors is only its fifth major redesign since the autoamker was founded more than 110 years ago. Source: GM General Motors is changing its corporate logo as it launches a new marketing strategy focused on all-electric vehicles. It is only the fifth time the Detroit automaker has conducted a major
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Tesla — The electric vehicle company surged more than 7% to a new record high. Tesla’s market capitalization jumped above $800 billion for the first time on Friday, making the company more valuable than Facebook, and the fifth-most valuable component of the S&P 500. Evercore ISI
The math behind Bezos’ eight hours of sleep Bezos is very calculative about why he believes eight hours of sleep is the key to boosting productivity and making high-quality decisions. He offered a very convincing example: “So let’s go crazy and say I slept four hours a day. I’d get four so-called productive hours back.
Jersey City, New Jersey. Dong Wenjie | Moment | Getty Images Whether they were tired of the chilly winters or the high income taxes, a lot of residents fled New Jersey, New York and Illinois in 2020. New Jersey was the top “outbound” state last year, according to an analysis of 2020 moving data by
A series of strategies for tax-wise investors. Table of Contents. Annuitant getty A Qualified Longevity Annuity Contract is a contract with an insurance company that (a) pays out a fixed monthly amount beginning at an advanced age and (b) is bought inside an IRA. The most you can put into a QLAC is $135,000 or
Tax-hungry legislators may go after incomes over $400,000. But they will likely leave in place a rich collection of avoidance devices. Here are ways that investors minimize damage from the IRS. Democrats, narrowly in control of Congress, are equipped to undo parts of the 2017 Trump tax cut and, perhaps, to attack some of the
The Vanderbilt mansion was once a prime spot for the Gilded Age wealthy. Gavin Preuss One of the crown jewels of America’s historic homes, a grand Vanderbilt family home that straddles the Massachusetts towns of Stockbridge and Lenox, is on the market for $12.5 million. The property, which was built in the Berkshires in 1886,
General manager of Covid Recovery, Becky Board, prepares to administer the first Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in London to patient George Dyer, 90, at Croydon University Hospital, at the start of the largest ever immunisation programme in the UK’s history on December 8, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Dan Charity | Getty Images The coronavirus is
Richard Clarida Scott Mlyn | CNBC Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida said he expects the central bank to maintain the pace of its asset purchases through the balance of 2021. “My economic outlook is consistent with us keeping the current pace of purchases throughout the rest of this year,” he told the Council on
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