Taxation Guide

2. Investing Offshore Via Cross-border Trading - By: Michael Russell
How can one go about investing one's dollar in an offshore market without incurring traveling expenses and enduring bureaucratic procedures imposed by foreign financial institutions on non-residents? There is a service offered by brokerage firms, frequently referred to as cross-border trading, ...

3. Practical Real Estate Techniques - By: Thomas K. Bryan
Hey say that "death and taxes" are the only two certainties in this life. When it comes to achieving financial independence, death and taxes are essentially the same thing. Just as friction wears the tread off your tires, tax friction rubs the shine right off your financial statement. O...

4. 10 Items You Need For Your 2005 Tax Return - By: Arik Rozen Cpa
The following list includes the 10 items you are likely to needwhen preparing your tax return. Although you may be required toprovide additional information, this list brings you the mostcommon items we have identified based on hundreds of ourclients' tax returns.1. IRS form W2 -summ...

5. Accountability? Mutual Funds Must Come Clean - By: Marc J. Lane
the SEC should deal directly with fund managers' conflicts of interest by requiring funds to disclose the fees they earn from companies in which they invest and highlight the votes they cast in support of the management of those companies The most powerful mutual fund companies ...

6. It Might Not Pay To Delay Director's Fees - By: (see Article)
Under the new tax law, however, the advantages of deferred payment may be outweighed by disadvantages. It may no longer pay to wait. Until now, it was smart for a company director to defer receiving director's fees until after retirement, when a lower income tax...

7. Business Overhead Expense Insurance – Do I Need It - By: Andy Puls
Personal disability insurance protects a physician’s ability to earn income, but what protects his or her medical practice? Business overhead expenses are just as relentless for those who suffer a disability. A practice that relies on a small number of people (or one person) to produce revenue is ...

8. 1031 Exchange As A Marketing Tool - For Realtors - By: Arik Rozen Cpa
How Can 1031 Exchange Help You In Generating Business?The 1031 tax deferred treatment of capital gains is one of themost attractive real estate investor vehicles for preserving andbuilding real estate wealth: This provision of the tax codeallows property owners to exchange their property f...

9. Merely Setting Up A Trust Agreement Does Not Place Any Property Into The Trusta Separate Transaction Is Needed For Each Asset - By: Driskill
Wills often contain instructions on who should be appointed legal guardian of the decedent's minor children. Legitimate educational seminars on trusts and other legal and financial topics are sometimes offered by attorneys, financial planners and trust officers from banks and trust companies. There ...



10. Career Opportunities In Accounting - By: Michael Russell
Accounting is known to be the study of how businesses keep track of their income and assets over a period of time.  There are a lot of things one can learn from a career in accounting.  One of the most important lessons is learning how businesses work.  To point out, one of the many s...

11. Supervises A Trust, It Makes Sure That The Terms Of The Trust Are Carried Out - By: Driskill
The court supervises a trust, it makes sure that the terms of the trust are carried out. The court is dedicated to providing the citizens of the county, personal service with the compassion, fairness, and professionalism that they deserve. The court can be petitioned by interested parties...

12. Small Business Franchise Opportunities - By: Randy Wilson
Many businesses offer small business franchise opportunities. There are many things that are needed for a small business of this kind, but the rewards are great. Franchising allows you to take on a proven and marketable brand and logo, without having to go through the time, effort, and money to buil...

13. Health Insurance For Seniors On The Web - By: William Pritchett
Health Insurance For Seniors On The Net When a good friend of mine inquired where he could obtain information about medical insurance for his out-of-state, elderly mother, I told him to try the Internet. He reported back to me about a week later, in desperation: "I am givi...

14. Long Term Care Insurance For Seniors - By: William Pritchett
When a good friend of mine inquired where he could obtain information about medical insurance for his out-of-state, elderly mother, I told him to try the Internet. He reported back to me about a week later, in desperation: "I am giving up, I am too confused." He had taken on a...

15. Investment Politics 2008: What's (left) In Your Wa - By: Steve Selengut
The parade of promises is marching down Main Street. For too many months to come, politicians of all descriptions, parties, and ideologies will be courting our votes... they have the cure for all that is wrong in the world, they tell us. With crystal clear hindsight, every candidate criticizes the d...

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