Stocks Sales
Gain = Excercise price + Ordinay income recognized a grant
Character of Gain
If held more than one year after excercise, the gain is a Long-term capital gain.
Employee stock purchase plans
Are a type of statutory stock option plan.
Incentive stock options (ISOs)
Don’t report compensation income when you get the option. Instead, you might have tax consequences later when you exercise the option or sell the stock.
Incentive stock options (ISOs)
ISOs must be exercised within 10 years of the grant date
For which type of employee stock option plan does the employee recognize taxable income at the time the options are granted?
Nonstatutory stock options with readily determinable value.
Employee recognizes ordinary income on the grant date equal to the fair market value of the options.
Other types (nonstatutory without readily determinable value, employee stock purchase plans, incentive stock options) recognize income later, typically at exercise or sale.
Restricted stock award
Employee recognizes ordinary compensation income for the fair market value (FMV) of the restricted stock on the date the stock vests and the restrictions lapse
Restricted stock award
Employee receives actual shares of company stock.
Interest on below-market loans
Imputed Interest Income=
(Loan Amount×AFR)−(Loan Amount×Stated Interest Rate)
Gift or loan less than 10.000
The rule of imputed interest does not apply; ZERO interest.
foreign income
330 days outside the USA exclusion up to $130.000
back to regular taxable income to calculate alternative minimum taxable income (AMTI)
Taxes deducted as part of itemized deductions, including income, sales, real estate, and personal property taxes, are an adjustment that is added back to regular taxable income
Alternative Minimum Taxable Income, Individual Taxpayer can take as a deduction:
Alternative Minimum Taxable Income, Individual Taxpayer adjustments are always added to regular income to determine AMT income?
Interest income from certain private activity bonds
standard deduction for a dependent
For dependents, the standard deduction is the greater of:
$1,350 (minimum standard deduction for dependents),
or
Earned income + $450, but it cannot exceed the regular standard deduction ($15,000).
Estimated tax payments
If you owe less than $1,000 in tax after withholding and credits, you are not required to make estimated tax payments and won’t face penalties for underpayment.
If you owe more than $1,000, you must make estimated tax payments to avoid penalties, unless you meet safe harbor rules (like paying 90% of the current year’s tax or 100% of the prior year’s tax, whichever is “the lesser”).
11% if AGI is more than 150K
QTP Section 529
Qualified Tuition Programs
Sole proprietor with no employees, self-employment earnings reduced by
One-Half of the self-employment tax
Employeer Sponsored defined contributons (DC)
Employees bear the entire financial risk of the plan’s performance.
Capital Losses Corporation C
Capital losses and only be offset against capital gains
Capital Loss is carried back three years and forward five years
NOTE: The Net Capital Loss Carryback cannot be carried back if it creates or increases Operating Losses for that year. The amount to be offset must not exceed the taxable income to prevent operating losses.
Capital Losses corporation C
Can offset 80% of the taxable income for 2021 and future years after deducting Pre-2018 NOL carryforwards.
For NOLs arising in tax years ending after December 31, 2017,
For NOLs arising in tax years ending after December 31, 2017, and deducted in tax years ending after December 31, 2020, the NOL deduction in any year is limited to 80% of that year’s taxable income.
NOL beginning after 12-31-2020
NOL deductions can only reduce taxable income by up to 80% of that year’s taxable income.
This ensures you never reduce taxable income below 20% of its amount in any year after 2020, regardless of how large your NOL is.
YEAR 2020 APPLY 100% After that 80%
Testing Period for Section 382 restricts how much of the old losses can be used after a big ownership shift to protect the tax base
The testing period for determining whether a Section 382 corporate stock ownership change has occurred is the three-year period ending on, but including, the date of the change in ownership (the testing date).