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Under OBBBA, Section 250 renames FDII to FDDEI, sets the deduction at 33.34%, eliminates the QBAI offset, and removes interest and R&E allocation — producing an effective 14% federal rate on qualifying foreign-derived income for U.S. C corporations filing Form 8993 in 2026.
A practical 2026 guide to Family Limited Partnership valuation discounts — how high-net-worth families combine 10–25% lack-of-control and 20–35% lack-of-marketability discounts to cut estate and gift tax exposure, with worked numerical examples, the IRC Section 2036 traps that have collapsed estates in Tax Court, setup costs, and the bookkeeping required to defend the structure on audit.
The Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax imposes a 15% levy on Adjusted Financial Statement Income for corporations averaging over $1 billion in AFSI. A practical guide to who qualifies, how AFSI is computed under section 56A, the FPMG $100M U.S. test, Form 4626 mechanics, and the interim simplified safe harbor.
AI bookkeeping tools now hit 85–95% categorization accuracy and shrink month-end close from days to under two hours, but the 2–5% confidently wrong residual is where audit risk hides. A practical workflow for small businesses covering daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly review steps.
A payroll operations guide to wage garnishment: how to calculate disposable earnings under the CCPA, apply the correct caps for creditor, child support, IRS, and student loan orders, prioritize multiple orders on one paycheck, and keep records that hold up under audit.
The IRS Voluntary Classification Settlement Program lets eligible employers reclassify 1099 workers as W-2 employees for roughly 1.068% of last year's compensation, with no interest, no penalties, and no employment-tax audit of prior years on those workers.
How the IRS Section 83(b) election converts phantom ordinary income on unvested startup stock into long-term capital gains, what the new Form 15620 online portal requires, and when filing is the wrong move.
How Section 79 actually works in 2026 — the $50,000 employer-paid group-term life exclusion, the IRS Table I rates (unchanged since 1999) that turn excess coverage into W-2 Box 12 Code C imputed income, plus the straddle rule, the $2,000 dependent de minimis, and the 2% S-corp shareholder trap.
Section 7702A's 7-pay test reclassifies overfunded cash-value life insurance as a modified endowment contract, switching lifetime distributions to LIFO ordering, taxing policy loans as ordinary income, and adding a 10% penalty before age 59½. The classification is permanent and cannot be reversed after the 60-day refund window.
A fiduciary guide to the Section 663(b) 65-day election and the Section 643(g) Form 1041-T allocation, with the March 6 deadline, DNI mechanics, a worked example saving roughly $11,776 in federal tax, and the procedural traps that void the election.
Section 6418 lets clean energy developers sell federal tax credits to unrelated corporate buyers for cash, typically at a 6 to 15 percent discount to face value. A practical guide to registration, pricing, recapture risk, the 20 percent excessive transfer penalty, and how the OBBBA preserved transferability through the rest of the decade.
Section 531 imposes a 20% accumulated earnings tax on C-corps that retain profits beyond a $250,000 credit ($150,000 for personal service firms) without specific, feasible plans. This guide explains the Bardahl working-capital formula, the Section 534 burden-of-proof statement, and the contemporaneous documentation that defends an accumulation in IRS audit.
