#tax-planning
Стратегическо данъчно планиране за минимизиране на задълженията и максимизиране на спестяванията
Program-related investments let a private foundation count loans, equity stakes, or guarantees toward its mandatory 5% annual payout, then reclaim the capital as it's repaid, but PRIs to non-charitable recipients trigger IRS expenditure-responsibility rules with a 20% excise tax and personal manager penalties for noncompliance.
The IRS raised 2026 HSA limits to $4,400 self-only and $8,750 family (Revenue Procedure 2025-19). A small business owner's guide to the S-corp more-than-2% shareholder rules, the 35% comparability excise tax, cafeteria plan workarounds, and how to avoid excess-contribution penalties.
Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor subscriptions are fully deductible under IRC Section 162 as ordinary business expenses, while Section 174 R&D amortization only applies to labor and compute tied to genuine new product development — and the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act restored immediate deduction for domestic R&E costs.
Американските наземни аренди за билбордове плащат на собствениците на земя 15–20% от рекламните приходи или фиксиран наем — данъчно третиране и ескалатори за 10–20 години.
The IRS standard mileage rate rises to 72.5 cents per mile for 2026. Here's how it compares with the actual expense method, why your first-year choice can be irreversible, and what a mileage log needs to survive an IRS audit under Section 274(d).
California's SB 122, signed June 29, 2026, extends sales and use tax (7.25% state rate plus local add-ons) to prewritten software and SaaS starting January 1, 2027. Custom software and cloud infrastructure like AWS stay exempt; sellers over 5 million dollars in digital receipts shift collection to purchasers. Here is what's taxable, how billing-address sourcing works, and a compliance checklist.
Chimney sweep businesses earn 60-70% of annual revenue in a five-month window (September-January), so reserve fund planning, per-service-line margin tracking, and the IRS annualized income installment method for estimated taxes matter more than they do for evenly-billed businesses.
Ecuador's SRI automatically recategorized roughly 70,000 RIMPE taxpayers on July 1, 2026 — about 14,000 moved from Negocio Popular to Emprendedor and 56,000 were pushed into the General Tax Regime — here's how to check your new bracket and what changes.
Equipment rental fleets should capitalize purchases as depreciating assets tagged to individual unit IDs, apply MACRS as the default recovery schedule, use Section 179 (up to $2,560,000 in 2026) plus 100% bonus depreciation to front-load deductions, and track time and financial utilization per asset to know which units are actually earning their keep.
CoreWeave depreciates GPU servers over 6 years, Lambda over 5, and Nebius over 4 — a difference in useful-life estimates that can shift reported profit by tens of millions of dollars per 10,000-GPU fleet without any cash changing hands, and sits at the center of Michael Burry's $176 billion overstated-depreciation claim against major AI infrastructure spenders.
Illinois eliminated its 200-transaction economic nexus threshold under HB 2755 effective January 1, 2026, leaving a single $100,000 revenue test and offering a limited amnesty window from August 1 to October 31, 2026 for unregistered remote sellers.
Powerboat and pontoon rental income is reported on Schedule C, not Schedule E, which subjects net profit to the full 15.3% self-employment tax — a distinction that shapes how these seasonal businesses should handle depreciation, off-season cash reserves, and an eventual S-corp election.
