The major purpose of Legal Environments of Business is to provide you with a concise summary of the major legal principles affecting businesspeople and business transactions.  It provides a quick, yet comprehensive, review of this vital and wide-ranging area of the law.  You will be able to analyze business decisions from a legal responsibility perspective.

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Revision Date:   4/17/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description

The IRS, one of the world's largest tax administrators, collected about $4.7 trillion in taxes from 275 million annual returns in FY 2023. However, with an estimated $574 billion in back taxes uncollected in 2023, the IRS, also the world's largest collection agency, actively seeks payment of tax debts. The IRS can collect back taxes for 10 years from the date of assessment. To collect delinquent tax debt, the IRS may take a series of actions, such as filing a Notice of Federal Tax Lien, levying assets (e.g. wages, bank accounts), and offsetting federal tax refunds, unless taxpayers make arrangements to settle their debt. Tax resolution is the process of developing and implementing a solution to solve a taxpayer's IRS problem.  
Since every tax situation is unique, this course is designed to help you understand several methods used by tax professionals to resolve tax disputes with the IRS and reduce tax liabilities allowed by law. It is divided into five parts. Part I identifies taxpayers' rights and responsibilities under the law. It discusses the role of taxpayers and the "Taxpayer Bill of Rights" by describing what taxpayers can expect if they need to work with the IRS. Part II explores practical options, such as payment plans, Offers in Compromise, and delay collection request, for taxpayers who cannot pay in full immediately. It also identifies common reasons the IRS might consider penalty abatement. The statute of limitations on a tax debt is explained.
Part III focuses on IRS collection actions. It explains how the IRS determines taxpayers' ability to pay delinquent tax liabilities. It also covers everything taxpayers need to know about lien and levies from the IRS filing criteria, procedures, consequences, and how to remove them. Part IV addresses the IRS long-term payment plan (Installment Agreement) by explaining different payment options, ways to apply, and how to deal with defaulted payment plans. Part V discusses how to settle taxes with Offers in Compromise by explaining submission rules, how to prepare a Collection Information Statement, and the IRS evaluation process. The course includes many examples to help you understand tax rules and procedures.

Field of Study    Taxes
Level of Knowledge    Overview
Prerequisite    None
Advanced Preparation    None

Revision Date: 9/4/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description
Accounting for income taxes is one of the more challenging topics of financial accounting. Corporations must file income tax return following the guidelines developed by the IRS.  Because GAAP and tax regulations differ in a number of ways, so frequently do pretax financial income and taxable income. Hence, the amount that a company reports as tax expense will differ from the amount of taxes payable to the IRS.  Those differences produce a complex accounting standard.
This course is designed to help you navigate the complexities of this topic. It covers the accounting and financial reporting requirements for income taxes discussed in ASC 740 Income Taxes. It addresses the basic principles such as the asset and liability method, assessment for uncertain tax positions, and the effect of temporary differences.  It explains the process of accounting for income taxes, including valuation allowance, asset acquisition, intraperiod allocations, and interim reporting. It describes presentation and disclosure requirements. It also provides specific examples to illustrate the application. Relevant references to and excerpts from ASC 740 are discussed throughout the course.

Learning Objectives
After studying this course, you will be able to:
1.    Recognize the basic principles of accounting for income taxes
2.    Identify recognition and measurement requirements for uncertain tax positions
3.    Recognize temporary differences and identify how these differences may arise
4.    Distinguish between permanent and temporary differences
5.    Identify method for computing deferred taxes
6.    Recognize basic rules for income taxes in interim reporting
7.    Recognize the reporting requirements for income taxes

Field of Study    Accounting
Level of Knowledge    Intermediate
Prerequisite    Understanding of GAAP
Advanced Preparation    None
CPE    6

Revision Date: 12/1/22

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This mini-course integrates federal taxation with overall financial planning. The course explores tax strategies relating to the central financial tactics of wealth building, capital preservation, and estate distribution. The result is a unified explanation of tax-economics that will permit the tax professional to locate, analyze, and solve financial concerns. Designed to improve the quality of services to clients and the profitability of engagements, this program projects the accountant into the world of financial planning.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

Learning Objectives:

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Identify investment purposes and retirement misconceptions, the multi-step retirement process, and the elements of investment planning.

2. Determine income types, from a tax perspective, to be budgeted in-to cash so that income-producing assets can be acquired and managed for an effective investment plan.

3. Recognize the means of achieving tax deferral recognizing like-kind exchanges, retirement plans, and installment sales, and specify the double financial benefit of exchanging through tax postponement and possible tax elimination.

4. Determine how to use tax credits, estimated taxes, and basic deductions to effectively reduce federal income tax and thereby increase discretionary income for investment purposes.

5. Specify formats for income splitting that can benefit taxpayers by lowering overall taxes as a unit and permitting wealth and tax allocation among individuals or entities.

6. Identify the tax benefits of the $500,000 home sales exclusion, municipal bonds, divorce and separation settlements, gifts and inheritances, life insurance, fringe benefits, and Social Security to eliminate tax on realized gain and ordinary income.

After studying the materials, answer the exam questions 1 to 15.

Revision Date: 2/18/2025

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Asset Protection

The current litigation explosion has created tremendous Interest in asset protection. Not only does this area have financial and estate aspects but it directly impacts tax planning.
This mini-course is designed to survey opportunities for asset protection that can arise during tax planning and to determine how to properly report such transactions.


Learning Objectives
After reading the materials, participants will be able to:
1. Recognize misconceptions about and the main reasons for asset protection, determine fraudulent transfers stating how to structure asset protection planning transfers so that they are not fraudulent, identify goals associated with undertaking asset protection measures, and specify how life insurance can be used as an asset protection vehicle.
2. Identify how the various types of entities relate to asset protection and how the various types of joint ownership of property and various trusts directly impact asset protection and tax liability.
3. Determine the concepts of common law property, community property, and equitable ownership specifying which states base distribution laws on those concepts, specify asset division principles, and recognize premarital and post-nuptial agreements and how they can be used to advise clients in individual asset protection.
After studying the materials, answer exam questions 1 to 10.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.
Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.
Field of Study: Taxes
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.
Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date: 1/8/24

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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2 Credits

Operating costs for vehicles used in the course of a taxpayer’s business are deductible. Thus, when taxpayers use their vehicles in their businesses or employment, they can deduct that portion of the cost of operating their vehicle. Such costs that can be deducted are property taxes that are paid on their vehicle if deductions are itemized on Schedule A. This mini-course reviews apportionment of personal and business use, the actual cost method and the standard mileage method, and expensing. Moreover, this presentation informs practitioners about topics such as the benefits and costs of leasing versus owning, and working condition fringe benefits.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

• Apportionment of personal & business use
• Deduction limitations using actual cost method
• Expensing - §179
• Predominate business use rule
• Auto leasing
• Standard mileage method
• Auto trade-in vs. sale
• Employer-provided automobile
• Nonpersonal use vehicle
• Reporting of employer-provided automobile

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and implement various tax vehicle depreciation (§168) and expensing (§179) methods describing their requirements and limitations under MACRS and make basis, business use and deduction computations.
2. Explain the predominate business use rule emphasizing the result of less than 50% qualified business use, name the pros and cons of auto leasing and calculate monthly lease payments indicating what factors affect payments so clients may financially analyze leasing and know common leasing terms.
3. Review items included under the standard mileage method distinguishing items that may be separately deducted, determine the taxable fringe benefit value of an employer provided automobile using the general and special valuation methods ands list several qualified nonpersonal use vehicles discussing what reporting standards apply.

Revision Date: 2/19/2025

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act was enacted to minimize abuse of the bankruptcy system. Included in this Act were tax law changes and other changes that individuals, partnerships, and corporations will see in the bankruptcy procedures and qualifications. This mini-course both examines these changes that debtors will face when filing for federal bankruptcy and also explores the many tax issues of bankruptcy. Practitioners will also learn about other issues such as homesteading and garnishment by creditors.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

• Tax law changes
• Bankruptcy types
• Automatic stay
• Preferences
• Priorities
• Debt discharge
• Individual bankruptcy estate
• Individual debtor
• Corporate bankruptcy
• Homesteading & garnishment

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Analyze the 2005 Bankruptcy Act by identifying changes to bankruptcy procedures and qualifications comparing the three most common types of bankruptcy filings and select the appropriate bankruptcy filing using a debtor’s status as an individual or business and their ability to pay off creditors.
2. Explain the scope of the automatic stay, the recoupment preferential transfers, and the priority of creditor claims categorizing dischargeable and nondischargeable debts based on bankruptcy filing.
3. Outline the creation of a separate individual bankruptcy estate determining its taxable income, appropriate deductions, and special tax year elections and contrast individual with partnership and corporate bankruptcy comparing filing bankruptcy requirements, debt discharge and asset liquidations including reorganizations.
4. Describe the purpose of homestead laws and available homestead types including the degree of homeowner protection afforded and identify the special rules, terms, and application of garnishment laws.

2024 Easy Update & Inflation Adjustments
Mini-Course Description
This mini-course examines key individual, business, retirement, and estate tax provisions recently enacted or indexed for inflation in an overview format that is easy to reference. The emphasis is on quick access to major tax changes having special meaning to the tax practitioner and return preparer. The course is a great resource and a way for professionals and staff alike to easily get the "big chunks" and bring their professional knowledge up to speed.


Learning Assignment & Objectives
As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below:
After reading the materials, participants will be able to:
1. Recognize the various issues affected by inflation and recent tax law developments especially as they relate to individual tax brackets, exemptions & deductions, the AMT, the child tax credit, alimony,  HSAs,  education plans, and energy credits.
2. Determine the key business tax issues affected by inflation adjustments and recent legislative changes, including corporate tax rates, entertainment expenses, tax credits & deductions, bonus depreciation, expensing, standard mileage rates, employment taxation, repatriation of foreign income, small business stock, partnership taxation, and excessive compensation.
3. Specify differences between various retirement plans, including inflation-adjusted contribution limits and phaseout limits, and determine estate taxes by identifying trust income tax rates and determining applicable exclusion amounts.
After studying the materials, answer exam questions 1 to 30.


Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.
Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.
Field of Study: Taxes
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.
Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date: 2/19/2025

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description

Practitioners are brought up-to-date information on tax issues affecting estate planning and business issues. A major emphasis of this mini-course is practical estate planning solutions that are cost effective. Devised to reduce or eliminate estate problems and death taxes, this comprehensive guide examines wills, trusts, gifts, insurance, private annuities, and other general estate planning tools. The planning issues and problems that arise from owning a business interest are also addressed.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

• Unlimited marital deduction
• Simple will
• Types of trusts
• Charitable trusts
• Family documents
• Private annuities
• Business valuation
• Redemptions
• Lifetime dispositions
• Installment payment of federal estate taxes
• Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the unlimited marital deduction, its effect on the gross estate evaluation and the impact of stepped-up basis as they affect survivors and heirs. Summarize the benefits of establishing even a simple will and its control over certain assets.
2. Discuss the primary ways to dispose of assets using trusts and annuities specifying the importance of family documents to manage assets.
3. Identify the starting point used to value a business’s tangible assets, continue by reviewing the R.R. 59-60 business valuation factors and listing the four steps in R.R. 68-609’s valuation formula for intangible assets and goodwill noting the effect of both rulings on the total value of a business. Then, analyze the adjustment caused by minority interests in a closely held business and their impact on final evaluation.
4. Illustrate how to use the various ways to dispose of business interest before death to family members while avoiding the provisions of the constructive ownership rules.
5. Analyze deferred compensation agreements as a valuable estate planning tool and identify when to recommend the option of paying federal estate taxes in installments indicating the basis of the election and its eligibility requirements.

Revision Date: 2/24/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Mini-Course Description:

Business expenses are the costs of carrying on a trade or business, and they are usually deductible if the business is operated to make a profit. This mini-course reviews various expenses that businesses may deduct and the requirements that must be met for those expenses to qualify for deduction. Furthermore, practitioners can use this as a guide to determine which of their clients’ taxes are deductible as business expenses.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

 Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

 Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

 Advanced Preparation: None

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Section 162

* Expenses of not-for-profit activities

* Rent expenses

* Interest expense

* Deductible taxes

* Other selected deductible costs

* Amortization

* Depletion -§613

* Business bad debts

* Depreciation

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Cite the elements of §162 and the limitations imposed by the not-for-profit provisions stating how these elements and restrictions impact business deductions such as cost of goods sold, leases, taxes, loan points, and interest expense.

2. Determine the corporate dividends received deduction, identify the cost allocation on the business use of a residence and specify casualties, thefts, and research costs in the context of business deductions under §162.

3. Recognize methods of amortization for business startup, organizational costs, and §179 intangibles with the cost depletion methods used on natural resources.

4. Identify depreciation rules related to ACRS and MACRS, and cite the elements of the business bad debt provisions under §166.

After studying the materials, answer exam questions 1 to 10.

Revision Date:  2/6/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

How can you help your clients protect their assets? What is the best way for your client to “go bankrupt”? How can you help your client avoid the tax trap when going through a divorce? This course addresses all of these and many other, critical legal issues for the tax practitioner in a quick and effective potpourri of legal topics and their tax impact. The emphasis is on the tax consequences of common legal issues in today's litigatious society. From the Americans with Disabilities Act to Social Security taxes, a generous sampling of key areas is examined and explored. Tax practitioners will be quickly surprised to find how often the "tax tail" can wag the legal dog.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

• Asset protection
• COBRA coverage
• Bankruptcy
• Divorce settlements & divisions
• Employment & Social Security
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Entities and title
• Insurance & foreclosure
• Involuntary conversions
• Torts and personal injuries

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and analyze the business law concepts of asset protection, bankruptcy, condemnation, and damages by evaluating their tax, economic, and legal impact on the small business planning.
2. Define the business relationships of principal, employee and independent contractor noting the legal and tax consequences of their relationship to a business, detect and solve business and legal risks posed by these parties, including co-ownership, employment, Worker's Compensation, COBRA and Disability Act provisions by developing proactive techniques such as buy sell agreements and regulatory compliance procedures.
3. Explain and advise small-business clients on the variety of personal tax and legal issues such as divorce, foreclosure, legal title, and income needs that can directly impact their business and how investment, insurance, and government benefit planning can address these issues.

Revision Date:  2/24/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Taxpayers are once again looking to CPAs for guidance and planning related to travel and entertainment expenses. This comprehensive mini-course examines and explains the practical aspects of business travel and entertainment deductions. To determine the expenses that taxpayers are able to deduct, fundamentals are reviewed and planning opportunities are identified. Practitioners will learn to master the proper administration of these complex and often cumbersome provisions.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

• Transportation & travel distinguished
• Definition of “tax home”
• Temporary & indefinite assignments
• Business purpose requirement for business travel
• Convention & meetings
• Statutory exceptions of ordinary & necessary requirement
• Entertainment facilities
• Employee expense reimbursement & reporting
• Self-employed persons
• Employers

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize the “away from home” requirement and related deductions, determine what constitutes transportation and travel expenses noting the tests for tax home and recognize the differences between temporary and indefinite work assignments including their effect on a tax home.

2. Identify the business purpose requirement using the 51/49 percent test, determine deductible conventions and meetings, and specify the limitations applied to meals and lodging when traveling.

3. Determine what constitutes business entertainment and identify business entertainment activity deduction restrictions and disallowance.

4. Specify the Statute 274(e) exceptions to entertainment deduction disallowance, recognize the necessity of expense substantiation, and determine accountable and nonaccountable plans noting the impact on deductions.

Revision Date:  2/19/2025

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Getting Cash Out Of Your Business

Mini-Course Description:

This mini-course examines the various ideas, methods, and techniques capable of optimizing the overall compensation package for key employees and principals in small to medium-sized businesses. Qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation, benefit targeting, insurance programs, statutory fringe benefits, interest-free loans, and investment planning are investigated. Consideration is given to indirect compensation in the form of business entertainment, expense accounts, auto use, travel, and transportation. The new field of professional services is probed to provide tax, financial, and estate planning to the key executive.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

 
Learning Objectives:
After reading the materials, participants will be able to:
1. Identify types of income, from a financial and tax perspective, to be budgeted into cash so that income-producing assets can be acquired and managed for an effective investment plan.
2. Determine compensation to maximize the net dollar return using strategies that involve all aspects of how the client relates to the company for which they may be an owner, employee, or both.
3. Specify the differences between qualified deferred compensation plans and nonqualified deferred compensation plans, and recognize defined contribution plans from defined benefit plans identifying the characteristics of each so that business owners may choose the most suitable plan to accomplish their financial and worker incentive objectives.
4. Recognize the scope and variety of excluded fringe benefits including tax treatment, operational details, and level of incentive-based compensation.
5. Identify the disallowance of entertainment expenses, determine the tax treatment of reimbursements paid under accountable and unaccountable plans, and recognize deductible travel expenses undertaken for business.
6. Specify types of insurance that a company can provide its employees, define the various types of equity participation available from which companies may choose, and identify the basic types of buy-sell agreements.
After studying the materials, answer exam questions 1 to 15.
Notice
This course and test have been adapted from materials and information contained in the above text and any supplemental material provided. This course is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional advice and assumes no liability whatsoever in connection with its use. Since laws are constantly changing, and are subject to differing interpretations, we urge you to do additional research and consult appropriate experts before relying on the information contained in this course to render professional advice.

 

Revision Date:  1/23/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This mini-course describes and compares sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability companies, “C” corporations and “S” corporations. It examines their advantages and disadvantages, permitting the participant to properly select the right business entity for their tax and liability needs.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

• Advantages and disadvantages of sole proprietorships
• Taxes for self-employed individuals
• Definition of partnership
• Partnership tax return & year taxable
• Contributed property, assets & services
• Sales & exchanges of partnership interests
• Limited liability companies
• C corporations & PSC corporations
• Inventories
• S corporations

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Compare and contrast the central differences among business entities and the advantages and disadvantages associated with five basic business entity types.
2. Explain the tax attributes sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs, S corporations and C corporations and how each entity can be used to enhance tax and financial purposes and objectives.
3. Direct clients about the unique (e.g., self employment) and general taxes applicable to particular entities and the tax forms that may be required.
4. Describe the basic deductions that are permissible for each entity type and the conditions under which they are allowed.
5. Summarize the tax years, accounting methods and valuation methods that each entity type may use, and how the entities can be terminated.
6. Determine for different entity types the basis and the tax effect of sales, exchanges, transfers, contributions and distributions.

Revision Date: 2/3/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

The various ideas, methods, and techniques to optimize the overall compensation package for key employees and principals are examined in this mini-course. Generally, businesses may deduct employees’ pay including wages, salaries, and other perks. Certain fringe benefits that can provide an unusually tax favored manner of supplementing compensation are described and evaluated. In addition, equity participation is explored through stock sales, repurchase agreements, incentive stock options, ESOT’s, stock options, and bonuses. Finally, deferred compensation arrangements are investigated. The goal of this mini course is to provide participants with a working knowledge of types of compensation necessary to structure a compensation package minimizing tax liabilities and cost.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the material, participants should identify the following topics for study:

• Wages, salary & pay
• Tests for deducting pay to employees
• Selected types of compensation
• Payroll taxes
• Selected fringe benefits
• Interest-free & below-market loans
• Equity participation
• Advantages of nonqualified deferred compensation
• Funded company account plans
• Segregated asset plans

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the twenty common-law rules used by the IRS to determine whether a person is an employee for purposes of FICA, FUTA and federal income tax withholding.
2. Recognize employee and officer compensation deductibility factors and the related employment taxes and reporting obligations to ensure compliance with regulations.
3. Analyze and compare fringe benefits to provide deductible incentive based employee compensation.
4. Explain equity incentive opportunities available to employers emphasizing the variety, tax treatment, and use of stock plans.
5. Discuss using deferred compensation agreements to attain compensation and retirement objectives.

Revision Date:  2/19/2025

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This course examines and explains the basics of corporate taxation. The focus is on regular or C corporations, their formation, and operation under tax law. The advantages and disadvantage of corporations are examined; incorporation and capitalization issues are discussed; and, basic tax rates and specialty taxes are reviewed. The tax treatment of operational expenses and deductions are outlined; and accounting periods and methods are explored. Finally, the dangers of multiple corporations and corporate distributions are highlighted.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

• Corporation defined
• PSC corporations
• Incorporation
• Small business stock exclusion
• Start-up & organizational expenses
• Alternative minimum tax
• Capital gains & losses
• Accumulated earnings
• Accounting periods & methods
• Inventories

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize the key elements of regular corporations, explain their advantages and disadvantages, including tax treatment and tax advantages and disadvantages, and how to distinguish them from PSC corporations.
2. Direct clients on §351 requirements for tax free incorporation, explain the impact of the transfer of money, property or both by prospective shareholders pointing out the availability of §1244 for stock losses and §195 amortization of start-up expenditures.
3. Compute corporate alternative minimum tax recognizing the small corporation exemption, explain the corporate tax consequences of capital gains and losses, and describe several ways to avert the accumulated earnings trap noting the potential use of the accumulated earnings credit.
4. List accounting periods and methods available to corporations describing the tax consequences of liquidating property distributions.

Revision Date:1/17/2025

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Participants will learn how to apply, implement, and evaluate the strategic tax aspects of marital dissolutions and living together arrangements. Current perspectives on property transfers and asset divisions are examined with an emphasis on planning considerations. This mini-course reviews property settlements and other transfers incident to divorce. Basis allocation, third party transfers and purchases between spouses are also examined. Common pitfalls for the unwary such as transfers in trust, installment notes, and purchases between spouses are analyzed. Application of these tax principles is exampled in selected asset divisions of the residence, business interests, insurance, and pension benefits.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

• Property rights
• Premarital agreements
• Application of §1031
• Incident to divorce
• Property basis
• Purchases of residence between spouses
• Purchases of business interests between spouses
• Selected asset divisions of residence & business interests
• Real & personal property
• Pension benefits

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Inform clients on the various forms of marital property and how to proceed with a tax structured property settlement pointing out the benefits of premarital agreements to avoid potential divorce problems.
2. Demonstrate a working knowledge of property settlements under §1041 by explaining:
   a. its application to interspousal and third party transfers,
   b. the factors that determine whether or not a property transfer is incident to divorce under §1041,
   c. property basis for the transferor and transferee spouse under §1041.
3. Discuss and suggest remedies for the deferred tax pitfall of §1041 by:
   a. describing the deferred tax liability of interspousal purchases,
   b. explaining the tax deferral of §1031 exchanges,
   c. listing the key elements of the home sale exclusion and how to apply it;
   d. pointing out benefit distribution problems and the tax advantages of QDROs.

Revision Date: 1/6/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

Today taxpayers must plan for their children's education. Touching on various topics such as qualified tution programs (QTPs), scholarships and fellowships, this mini-course examines the tax treatment of costs related to education.  Practitioners will learn the ins and outs of the tax benefits concerning education and will be able to identify those educational expenses that are deductible.  Additionally, financial planning strategies and techniques are outlined to better prepare taxpayers for future educational costs. 

Learning Objectives:

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1.  Identify deductible education expenses and travel costs under the requirements of Section 162.
2. Determine the qualified credit amounts under the HOPE ("American Opportunity") Credit and the requirements of Coverdell education savings accounts.
3. Identify the deductible amount to claim for Section 221 student loan interest and recognize the permissible benefits of Section 529 qualified tuition programs.
4. Specify the tax free benefits of Section 117 scholarships and fellowships and who is eligible for a  Section132 qualified tuition reduction.
5. Identify educational incentives and financial aid requirements to meet college funding needs.

Course Description:

Before launching into an estate planning program, it’s important to know who owns what and exactly for whom you are planning. This requires that methods of holding title must be analyzed, considered, and selected. Sole proprietorships, S corporations, C corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies are analyzed as to formation, operation, and ultimate disposition. Since who or what holds title imposes its own unique tax and legal consequences on the estate plan, emphasis is given to the maximization of tax benefits in each business format. While each has its own separate characteristics, several may be used together in more sophisticated planning.

Learning  Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

Distinguish between the various types of corporations, clarify S corporation rules and their tax advantages and disadvantages, contrast the advantages and disadvantages of corporations relative to other types of entities, and explain how leasebacks to corporations work;

Differentiate between the types of joint ownership, describe how to use the benefits of partnerships, trusts and limited liability companies to hold property;

List the various retirement plans and how they can be used to provide substantial lifetime benefits to a business owner and to employees.

Revision Date: 2/7/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

Everyone needs to do estate planning. It is more than just planning for death. Estate planning is designing a program for effective wealth building, preservation, and disposition of property at the minimum possible tax cost. This exceptional mini-course surveys wills, living trusts, gifts, marital property, and probate avoidance. Designed to eliminate estate problems and death taxes, the emphasis is on practical solutions that are cost effective. The text reviews and explains both federal gift and estate tax systems giving practice pointers and planning observations.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

• Build, preserve & distribute
• Legal documents
• Estate planning team
• Estate administration
• Estate planning techniques & devices
• Trusts

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

       dentify the key participants and their roles in a coordinated estate plan and explain probate process including trust administration;

Compare and contrast specialized estate planning tools emphasizing the use of trusts and demonstrating how such tools save death taxes and transfer wealth while accentuating asset control;

Summarize recommended trust provisions and requirements pointing out how these terms and rules impact estate and trust taxation.       

Revision Date: 1/23/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

While the nuclear family remains the center point of society, today it is under tremendous economic and social pressure. This mini-course is designed to cover "hot" topics having a direct impact on the practitioner who represents any client with family issues. The emphasis is on using tax solutions to ease family economic concerns permitting the practitioner to be a real tax hero.

Learning Assignment & Objectives:

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

Filing status & exemptions

Divorce costs

Child, dependent care & adoption credits

Education expenses, credits & deductions

Medical costs

Charitable contributions

Casualty & theft losses

Home sales & mortgage interest

Property rights

Elderly, disabled & estate planning

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date:  1/23/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Mini-Course Description & Study Guide

We are all (including tax practitioners) getting older, and the need for effective retirement planning has never been greater. This mini-course is essential for participants who wish to attain a comfortable retirement for themselves and their clients by maximizing tax saving strategies. Retirement income needs are analyzed; Social Security benefits are determined, and distribution options from IRAs and retirement plans are explored.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Installment Sales

Mini-Course Description

An installment sale is a sale of property where one or more payments are received after the close of the tax year. This mini-course discusses the particulars of installment sales, including requirements, calculations, and pitfalls. Cross issues such as a combined installment sale and like-kind exchange, the impact of related parties, pledging, repossession and contingent payments are reviewed. Also, the importance of recognizing the dangers of dealer status, inventory, purchase price allocation, and installment note disposition are emphasized.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Installment method

* Installment income

* Imputed interest & OID

* Related party sales

* Like-kind exchanges

* Contingent payments or price

* Sale of a business

* Dealer dispositions

* Installment notes in excess of $5 million

* Dispositions of installment obligations

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize the importance, particularly in tax deferral, of the installment method and, identify §453 requirements and installment method terminology.

2. Specify the imputed interest, OID, and §1038 repossession rules affecting installment sales and subsequent repossessions.

3. Identify the following §453 pitfalls and complexities:  the related party limitation, the regulations governing the use of the installment sale method in like-kind exchanges, and the contingent payment sale rules.

4. Determine how to allocate and report installment payments among identified asset classes using R.R. 76-110 and the residual method recognizing §453 prohibitions on certain assets regarding dealer dispositions and inventory.

5. Identify the amount of interest payable on tax-deferred income when §453 dispositions exceed $5 million and circumstances considered taxable dispositions of installment obligations to determine when any gain or loss is recognized.

After studying the materials, answer exam questions 1 to 10.

Revision Date:  2/6/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Estate planning is when tomorrow becomes today! As a result of recent legislation, estate planning has been made surprisingly simple. This mini-course surveys wills, living trusts, gifts, insurance, marital property and probate avoidance. The will and trust forms are explored along with living wills, durable powers of attorney and nominations of conservator.

Learning Objectives
At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for
study:
* Estate planning team & administration
* Unlimited marital deduction & applicable exclusion amount
* Primary dispositive plans
* Trusts
* Annual gift tax exclusion
* Annuities & installment sales to family members
* Charitable remainder trusts
* Family limited partnerships
* Buy-sell agreements
* Family documents
After reading the materials, participants will be able to:
1. Recognize members of the estate planning team including their role in the
estate administration process, specify the unlimited marital deduction
requirements, cite the applicable exclusion amount and identify the effects of
stepped-up basis particularly, the repealed of modified carryover basis.
2. Determine the limits of a simple will and the advantages and disadvantages
of living trusts.
3. Identify specialized estate planning tools and how they permit clients to
pass more wealth and save death taxes, cite the uses of a durable power of
attorney, and specify instances when a conservatorship is appropriate.

Revision Date: 1/23/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

This mini-course will teach participants how to apply, implement, and evaluate the strategic tax aspects of marital and financial setbacks. Property transfers, asset divisions, alimony, filing status, exemptions, and child support are examined.

The cancellation of indebtedness income inclusion rules are discussed in the context of debt forgiveness and property foreclosure. Emphasis is given to the exceptions from income inclusion contained in Statute 108. The tax treatment of property repossession under Statute 1038 and bad debt treatment under Statute 166 is reviewed.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

 Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Marital tax liability

* Transfers incident to divorce

* Alimony & child support

* Debt cancellation & income inclusion rule

* Reduction of tax benefits

* Foreclosure

* Repossession of personal property

* Repossession of real property

* Non-business bad debts

* Business bad debts

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize tax considerations and tax guidance for marital breakdowns and, identify marital status specifying the effect marital status has on filing status and federal income tax obligations. 

2. Identify state marital property provisions, cite the elements of  Statute 1041 identifying at least two tax traps for the unaware, and specify variables that determine whether a payment is alimony.

3. Determine the exceptions to the general income inclusion rule specifying their tax impact, and recognize the various issues related to calculating gain or loss resulting from foreclosure or repossession including the differences between personal and real property repossession, amount realized on sale, or other distribution of property in a foreclosure, and basis calculation on repossession of property.

4. Identify nonbusiness and business bad debts under Statute 166 determining their differences in Code requirements and amount allowed.

Revision Date: 2/24/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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In this mini-course, initial marital tax matters such as living together, property rights, premarital agreements, filing status, exemptions, and dependents are explored. The detailed support test for children of divorced or separated parents, the tax treatment of back child support, the deduction of divorce costs, and estimated tax payments are reviewed. Emphasis is given to marital property rules, married versus unmarried tax rate comparison, head of household status, and treatment of refunds and deficiencies.

Learning Objectives
At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:
* Marital status
* Joint return
* Separate returns
* Head of household
* Exemptions
* Divorce costs
* Withholding & estimated tax
* Community property states
* Ending the community
* Living together

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:
1. Identify marital status and the effect marital status has on filing status, cite the tax advantages and disadvantages of a filing status and, specify the requirements for filing as head of household and the exemptions associated with spouses and dependents.
2. Recognize the differences between custodial and non-custodial parents including how the status affects dependency, identify the application of special support rules, and specify the dependent child income standards.
3. Determine common law and community property specifying their effect on marital and divorce planning, and identify the circumstances when payments qualify as Statute 71 alimony.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date: 1/28/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

We may all confront issues that directly impact how much we can deduct. This course is designed for participants who want to explore and examine the tax consequences of medical costs, charitable contributions, and casualty and theft losses, especially in relation to their deductibility. The emphasis is examining a wide variety of situations related to these items and the extent to which they may or may not result in a deduction and what limitations on deductibility may be imposed.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Deductions for medical costs

* Health Savings Accounts

* Health insurance for the self-employed

* Limitations on charitable contributions

* Contributions of cash

* Contributions of property

* Contributions of services

* Substantiation

* Casualty and theft losses

* Disaster area losses

*Losses on Deposits

Learning Objectives

After reading the chapter, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the various deductions related to medical costs by

a. Recognizing the differences between deductible and nondeductible items including the types of deductions for dependents; and

b. Specifying the basic characteristics of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and the tax consequences of withdrawals from HSAs and determining self-employed health insurance.

2. Recognize the charitable contribution provisions, identify how contributions of cash, property, and services affect deductibility of contributions of the different types of charitable contributions, and specify the requirements related to substantiation. 

3. Determine what constitutes casualty losses, theft losses, and losses on deposits and recognize the issues related to the deductibility of these losses.

Revision Date: 1/28/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

With the adoption of the passive loss limitation rules, taxpayers are looking to CPAs for guidance related to what deductions are allowed, disallowed, or suspended. Updating practitioners on the practical aspects of Statute 469, this course addresses the needed skill to handle these pragmatic issues. Fundamentals are reviewed, planning opportunities are identified, and creative strategies are discussed and evaluated along with remaining traditional approaches. The goal of this instructive course is to understand and solve client problems under Statute 469, with emphasis on tax savings ideas. Participants will learn to master the proper administration of these complex and often cumbersome provisions.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Passive loss rules

* Material participation

* Activity definition

* Passive & nonpassive activities

* Passive activity loss

* Rental activities

* Recharacterization of passive income

* Passive activity credits

* Passive activity audit guide

* At-risk limits

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Identify affected taxpayers, categories of income and loss, and passive losses under Statute 469 and necessary Statute 469 calculation steps and specify the Statute 469 & Statute 1211 limits and the ordering and suspension of any disallowed losses.

2. Recognize a taxpayer’s material participation in an activity by:

a. Identifying the material participation tests and their application to entities such as partnerships and corporations;

b. Specifying the activity grouping rules and exempt activities;

c. Determining passive activity particularly, the treatment of rental activity as passive; and

d. Identifying “nested” activities.

3. Identify special passive loss rules and calculations by:

a. Determining alternating use affects on amount realized and adjusted basis and citing additional loss limitations outside of Statute 469;

b. Recognizing requirements for the special $25,000 allowance; and

c. Specifying recharacterization rules and their purpose.

4. Recognize the passive activity audit guidelines identifying audit issues, determine the real estate rental activity credit exception, and cite the at-risk limit rules as they relate to Statute 469.

 Revision Date: 2/6/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

Tax reform provisions have frequently changed the tax on profits realized from the disposition of real estate. This has forced investors to seek “escape hatches” from fluctuating capital gains taxes. Tax-deferred exchanges permit the disposition of property often with the taxpayer receiving significant cash but without the payment of any tax. Functionally, an exchange is a “bridge” over the normally taxable event of moving from one property to another. This course alerts the practitioner to the different planning opportunities that surround exchanging and also identifies the tax consequences of home sales, foreclosure, repossession, and other real property dispositions. Additional tpics of interest include involuntary conversions and at-risk limits.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Capital gains

* Home sales

* Installment method

* Contingent payments or price

* Section 1031 like-kind exchanges

* Delayed exchange regulations

* Actual & constructive receipt rule

* Foreclosure

* Repossession

* Condemnations

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Identify capital gains rates with applicable assets using the "basket" approach, cite the requirements of the home sale exclusion, and determine gain under the installment method recognizing the application of the unstated interest rules.

2. Specify the types of property that qualify for a like-kind exchange and recognize the methods of identifying such property in a delayed exchange including the mechanics for such an exchange.

3. Recognize the differences between recourse and nonrecourse indebtedness identifying their impact on foreclosures, determine how various types of property affect the repossession rules of Statute 1038 including basis and gain or loss for both installment and non-installment method sales.

4. Determine how easements affect condemnations and how to report gain or loss associated with involuntary conversions, cite the types of payments included in a condemnation award, and specify the types of entities that qualify for exclusion from at-risk limits recognizing the impact of recourse and nonrecourse financing.

 Revision Date: 2/6/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

We are all (including tax practitioners) getting older, and the need for effective retirement planning has never been greater. This course is essential for participants who wish to attain a comfortable retirement for themselves and their clients by maximizing tax-saving strategies. Designed to improve the quality of services to clients and the profitability of engagements, this presentation integrates federal taxation with retirement planning. The emphasis is on practical simplicity in dealing with the self-employed and highly compensated individual. Distribution options from IRAs and other retirement plans are explored.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

Qualified deferred compensation

Basic requirements of a qualified pension plan

Basic types of corporate plans

Types of defined contribution plans

Self-employed plans - Keogh

Distribution & settlement options of IRAs

Tax-free rollovers for IRAs

Roth IRAs

Simplified employee pension plans (SEPs)

SIMPLE plans

Revision Date: 1/17/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This presentation integrates federal taxation with overall financial planning. The course will explore tax strategies relating to the central financial tactics of wealth building, capital preservation, and estate distribution. The result is a unified explanation of tax-economics that will permit the tax professional to locate, analyze, and solve financial concerns. Designed to improve the quality of services to clients and the profitability of engagements, this program projects the accountant into the world of financial planning. This course will give the participant practice in analyzing problems, developing solutions, and presenting final personal financial plans to clients. The emphasis is on practical simplicity in dealing with the self-employed and highly compensated individual.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%
 

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Revision Date: 9/4/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This presentation integrates federal taxation with overall financial planning. The course will explore tax strategies relating to the central financial tactics of wealth building, capital preservation, and estate distribution. The result is a unified explanation of tax-economics that will permit the tax professional to locate, analyze, and solve financial concerns. Designed to improve the quality of services to clients and the profitability of engagements, this program projects the accountant into the world of financial planning. This course will give the participant practice in analyzing problems, developing solutions, and presenting final personal financial plans to clients.

The course surveys wills, living trusts, gifts, marital property, and probate avoidance. Will and trust forms are explored along with living wills, durable powers of attorney, and nominations of conservator. Designed to eliminate estate problems and death taxes, the emphasis is on practical solutions that are cost effective.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes
Prerequisite: General understanding of estate and gift taxation.
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date:3/14/23

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description

This informative course covers traditional planning tools and their utilization to protect assets. The Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Bankruptcy Code and various aspects of the tax law are highlighted in describing asset protection aspects of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, family partnerships, trusts, retirement plans, insurance products, and other conventional tools. Special topics include protection against lawsuits, costs of long-term illness, divorce settlements, foreign asset protection trusts, statutory protections, homestead provisions, exempt assets, cancellation of indebtedness taxation and marital agreements.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

 Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date: 8/29/2024

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Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

While accounting and the practice of law are separate professions, the accountant must be conversant with essential legal concepts. Modern accounting practice requires familiarity with corporate legal structure, business entities, partnership operations, contracts, property rights, employment law, divorce, consumer protection, will & trusts, and even bankruptcy law. This course explores these specific areas with emphasis on business and accounting issues. This informal and clear guide to the basic concepts of business law provides accountants with an excellent review of legal concepts that arise in any tax professional’s practice. The attendees will gain the ability to recognize and discuss general legal concepts with both client and their counsel.

Knowledge is power and nowhere is that truer than in the field law. To gain such a working knowledge of law, readily understandable explanations are given to essential and related business law subjects. The accountant is guided through the complex maze of literally hundreds of legal principles from acceptance to zoning.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 8/29/24

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Americans who want to be their own boss are not entirely on their own. They have a rich uncle - Uncle Sam - who is there to help, as well as to make demands. The nation's tax laws are intended to encourage people to start new businesses and are chock full of incentives and tax breaks, as well as sometimes onerous reporting requirements.

This course is a fast-paced and entertaining guide through tax issues affecting business entities and their owners. The focus of this class is on tax devices and techniques available to the small-business owner. Emphasis will be given to operational deductions, fringe benefits, compensation, family income splitting, retirement plans, and estate planning.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 6/12/24

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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While tax reform visions have changed the tax on profits realized from the disposition of real estate, investors still seek escape hatches from the capital gain tax. Tax-deferred exchanges permit the disposition of property often with the taxpayer receiving significant cash but without the payment of any tax. Functionally, an exchange is a bridge over the normally taxable event of moving from one property to another. This course alerts the practitioner to the different planning opportunities that surround exchanging. Participants will be able to identify, analyze, and handle effectively the complex tax problems that arise under 1031. This understanding will be directly applied to the structuring and audit survival of multi-party and delayed exchanges.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%
 

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Revision Date: 8/29/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This comprehensive book describes and compares sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability companies, “C” corporations and “S” corporations. It examines their advantages and disadvantages, permitting the reader to properly select the right business entity for their tax and liability needs. Major emphasis is given the maximization of tax benefits in each business format. Fringe benefits, retirement plan alternatives, and nonqualified deferred compensation are discussed in detail.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 6/24/24

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This course examines and explains the practical aspects of using the closely held corporation to maximize after-tax return on business operations. Recent developments giving corporations a competitive edge over other entities are explored and detailed. Practitioners are alerted to often missed fringe benefits, retirement planning opportunities, corporate business deductions, income splitting possibilities and little known estate planning techniques. The program covers step-by-step tax procedures to form, operate, and ultimately dispose of a closely held corporation. Distinctions between S and C corporations will be unraveled and guidelines for client direction given.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%
 

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Revision Date:  4/18/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This course brings the practitioner up-to-date information on tax issues affecting interest and debt. It covers the definition of bona fide debt, the avoidance of equity and lease treatment, imputed interest rates and debt modification. The various types of interest and their required allocation are explored and reviewed. For the economically troubled client, special attention is devoted to debt cancellation, repossession, discounts, and foreclosure. The program also discusses installment sales, equity participation debt, taxable interest, and bad debts.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 10/2/24

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This course will teach participants how to apply, implement, and evaluate the strategic tax aspects of marital dissolutions and living together arrangements. Current perspectives on property transfers, asset divisions, alimony, filing status, exemptions, and child support are examined with an emphasis on planning considerations. Property settlements, basis allocation, third party transfers, and purchases between spouses are explored and analyzed. Special attention is given to the division of business interests, retirement plans (including QDROs), insurance policies, and the family residence.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 2/25/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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"Just the facts ma'am; just the estate planning facts." Designed to give a quick overview of estate planning essentials, this course surveys wills, living trusts, gifts, marital property, and probate avoidance with an Internet flair. Will and trust types are examined in the context of general estate and gift taxation. Designed to eliminate estate problems and death taxes, the emphasis is on practical solutions that are cost effective. Talk about having it all in an overview course - there is even a quick review of immediate postmortem death tax planning and filling out the Form 706.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 10/16/24

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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While the nuclear family remains the center point of society, today it is under tremendous economic and social pressure. This course is designed to cover “hot” topics having a direct impact on the practitioner who represents any client with family issues. The emphasis is on using tax solutions to ease family economic concerns permitting the practitioner to be a real tax hero.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 3/10/2025

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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We are all (including tax practitioners) getting older, and the need for effective retirement planning has never been greater. This course is essential for participants who wish to attain a comfortable retirement for themselves and their clients by maximizing tax saving strategies. Retirement income needs are calculated; net after tax Social Security benefits are determined; and distribution options from IRAs and retirement plans are explored. Special consideration is given to the tax treatment of the home and business on retirement. Buy-sell agreements are discussed and eldercare planning is examined.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date:  6/19/2023

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Designed to make the practitioner comfortable with “high traffic” issues, this program enables participants to discuss and handle business/personal tax essentials. The course examines and explains the practical aspects of individual & corporate planning, bridging the gap between theory and application. Significant new developments are summarized with emphasis on tax savings ideas. This course examines and explains the practical aspects of using the closely held corporation to maximize after-tax return on business operations. Recent developments giving corporations a competitive edge over other entities are explored and detailed. Practitioners are alerted to often missed fringe benefits, retirement planning opportunities, corporate business deductions, income splitting possibilities and little known estate planning techniques.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 9/4/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Throw away the tax Code and regulations and make sense of estate planning. Learn how to structure an effective estate plan using a highly visual, real-life situation approach. Diagrams, charts, tables, and calculation sheets are used to present key elements of any successful estate plan - from the simplest to the most complex.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 10/16/24

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This exceptional course surveys wills, living trusts, gifts, marital property, and probate avoidance. Will and trust forms are explored along with living wills, durable powers of attorney, and nominations of conservator. Designed to eliminate estate problems and death taxes, the emphasis is on practical solutions that are cost effective.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This course will teach participants how to apply, implement, and evaluate the strategic tax aspects of marital dissolutions and living together arrangements. Current perspectives on property transfers, asset divisions, alimony, filing status, exemptions, and child support are examined with an emphasis on planning considerations. The cancellation of indebtedness income inclusion rules are examined in the context of debt forgiveness and property foreclosure. Emphasis is given to the exceptions from income inclusion contained in Statute 108. The tax treatment of property repossession under Statute 1038 is explored with detail given to the calculation of gain and received property basis. Finally, bad debt treatment under Statute 166 is reviewed and critical distinctions made between business and nonbusiness debts.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date:  10/16/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Taxes aren't taxes - they are dollars in terms of the net return on investment. All tax professionals need to know the tax-economics of investing for themselves and their clients. This need is accentuated by the rapid rise of the Internet as a broad-based and effective investment tool.

The tax professional is in a special position to detect a client's need for financial planning. Preparing returns discloses assets, savings, business entities, and family members. Knowledge of the client's assets, activities and the tax characteristics of available entities permits investment matching for maximum after-tax return.

The basic tax characteristics of the primary tax entities are explored and analyzed. Their ability to defer, reduce, and eliminate tax is examined. Client goals, purposes and risk tolerances are determined and quanitated using the Sharp ratio. Investments and assets are then evaluated using a variety of tools found on the Internet. Finally, investments and entities are matched to produce the best after-tax return for the client.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 10/16/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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The program will examine tax issues relating to the formation and operation of partnerships. Participants will gain a familiarity with basic areas of partnership taxation so as to recognize a problem and have at hand some practical knowledge for its solution. This course is presented in four practical segments: (1) the formation of partnerships, (2) the basic day-to-day operations of partnerships, (3) distributions of assets to partners, and (4) the termination of partnership affairs.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 7/17/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This course addresses the practical aspects of §469 and the needed skill to handle pragmatic issues. Fundamentals are reviewed, planning opportunities identified, creative strategies discussed and evaluated along with remaining traditional approaches. The goal of this instructive program is to understand and solve problems under §469, with emphasis on tax savings ideas. Readers will overview the proper administration of this complex and often cumbersome provision.

Course Level: Overview: This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of Federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date:  10/17/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This book is designed to survey selected “hot” topics having a direct impact on the property owner and investor. The emphasis is on problem areas where the unwary beginner and expert alike can be trapped. You will learn to identify dangers involving installment sales, imputed interest, exchanging, equity participation, condemnation, passive loss rules, and transactions with foreign investors.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date:  10/17/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Updating practitioners on current developments, this core program examines and explains the practical aspects of travel and entertainment deductions. Fundamentals are reviewed and planning opportunities identified. Creative strategies are discussed and evaluated along with traditional approaches. Taxpayers are once again looking to their tax professional for guidance and planning related to travel and entertainment expenses. The goal of this course is to understand and solve problems. Participants will learn to master the proper administration of these complex and often cumbersome provisions in a humorous and entertaining format.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date:  7/17/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This presentation integrates federal taxation with retirement planning. The course will examine tax and savings strategies related to determining retirement income needs, wealth building, capital preservation, and estate distribution. The result is a unified explanation of tax-economics that will permit the tax professional to locate, analyze, and solve financial aspects of retirement. Designed to improve the quality of services to clients and the profitability of engagements, this program projects the accountant into the world of retirement planning. This course will give the participant practice in analyzing problems, developing solutions, and presenting final personal retirement plans to clients. The emphasis is on practical simplicity in dealing with the self-employed and highly compensated individual.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Revision Date: 10/2/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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The digital divide is upon us! There are those who are getting on the information highway and those who will be left behind. This course gives the practitioner the ability to immediately access information-rich tax Websites at tremendous savings. Emphasis will be given to the substantial speed and cost advantages of the Internet over traditional paper and CD tax “services.” If you want “instant” tax information that’s down to the wire - this is the course.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

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Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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In this course, the intricacies of setting up and terminating an S corporation are detailed and taxation is discussed. The numerous advantages and disadvantages of this entity are identified to help practitioners determine whether the S corporation is most suitable for their clients. Eligible domestic corporations can avoid double taxation by electing to be treated as an S corporation under the rules of Subchapter S. Subchapter S provides an optional method of corporate taxation and allows small business corporations to elect unusual tax treatment. The S corporation is taxed like a partnership, but in other respects, S corporations are taxed like C corporations.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

 Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

 Field of Study: Taxes

 Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

 Advanced Preparation: None

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Advantages & disadvantages

* S corporation status

* Termination

* Income & expense

* Built-in gain

* Passive income

* Basis of stocks & debts

* Distributions

* Form 1120S

* Fringe benefits

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will able to:

1. Recognize a client's potential use of the S corporation format and its tax advantages and disadvantages by citing the requirements for an S corporation election, identifying eligible S corporation shareholders, specifying the one-class-of-stock regulations, and determining the ways an S corporation election can be terminated.

2. Identify the concepts of S corporation taxation by:

a. Recognizing the application of passive income taxation, accumulated adjustments accounts, built-in gains, net operating losses, tax preference items, and potential capital gains taxes,

b. Determining a shareholder’s stock basis from capitalization and loan activity,

c. Specifying the related party rules including their impact on deductions, available fringe benefits, and tax forms to use when filing as an S corporation.

After studying the materials, answer the exam questions 1 to 15.

Revision Date: 2/25/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence&a

Course Description:

This course explores many tax issues that arise from filing for bankruptcy. Also addressed are asset protection for the tax practitioner and medical costs covered under Statute 213. There is an examination of property settlements and other transfers incident to divorce. A tax surprise for many taxpayers is the taxability of debt cancellation and repossessing property sold on the installment method can also be taxable. Finally, practitioners are brought up-to-date information on tax issues affecting estate planning and business issues.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

 Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

 Field of Study: Taxes

 Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

Federal bankruptcy

Marital property settlements - Statute 1041

Asset protection

Medical costs -Statute 213

Casualty & theft losses - Statute 165

Debt cancellation & foreclosure, repossession & bad debts

Elderly & disabled planning

Catastrophic illness & healthcare decisions

Supplemental security income & disability benefits

Estate planning & primary dispositive plans

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Identify common types of bankruptcy filings and related provisions that impact individual or business filings.

2. Specify marital property transfers and asset protection strategies including insurance and organization structures to achieve protection and access objectives while avoiding fraudulent transfers.

3. Recognize medical costs and casualty and theft losses that may be deductible.

4. Identify debt cancellation, foreclosure, and the deductibility and reporting of bad debts.

5. Recognize elderly, disability, and estate planning programs and provisions to be considered for catastrophic and death planning purposes.

After studying the materials, answer the exam questions 1 to 15.

Revision Date: 3/29/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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This course examines the various ideas, methods, and techniques capable of optimizing the overall compensation package for key employees and principals in small to medium sized businesses. Qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation, benefit targeting, insurance programs, statutory fringe benefits, interest free loans, and investment planning are investigated. Effective pay plans essential to attract, motivate, and retain key people are described and evaluated. Consideration is given to indirect compensation in the form of business entertainment, expense accounts, auto use, travel, and transportation. Equity participation is explored through stock sales, repurchase agreements, incentive stock options, ESOTs, stock options, and bonuses. The new field of professional services is probed to provide tax, financial and estate planning to the key executive.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.  
Field of Study: Taxes 
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation. 
Advanced Preparation: None
Passing Percentage: 70%

Revision Date: 8/29/24

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Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course description and objectives: Designed to make the practitioner comforta-ble with “high traffic” issues, this program enables participants to discuss and handle individual tax essentials. The course examines and explains the practical aspects of return preparation and individual planning, bridging the gap between theory and application. Significant new developments are summarized with em-phasis on tax savings ideas. Practical applications and illustrations are used to systematically explore tax deferral, reduction, and elimination opportunities ac-companying return preparation. For example, the analysis of gross income is dis-cussed together with income splitting techniques; property transactions are ex-amined alongside like-kind exchanges and involuntary conversions. The result is an extraordinary blend of the latest developments affecting individual returns and their related planning ideas.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provid-ed.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all or-ganizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Passing Percentage: 70%

Revision Date 1/5/25

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Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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2025 Easy Update & Inflation Adjustments

Mini-Course Description
This mini-course examines key individual, business, retirement, and estate tax provisions recently enacted or indexed for inflation in an overview format that is easy to reference. The emphasis is on quick access to major tax changes having special meaning to the tax practitioner and return preparer. The course is a great resource and a way for professionals and staff alike to easily get the "big chunks" and bring their professional knowledge up to speed.


Learning Objectives:
As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below:
After reading the materials, participants will be able to:
1. Recognize the various issues affected by inflation and recent tax law developments especially as they relate to individual tax brackets, exemptions & deductions, the AMT, the child tax credit, alimony,  HSAs,  education plans, and energy credits.
2. Determine the key business tax issues affected by inflation adjustments and recent legislative changes, including corporate tax rates, entertainment expenses, tax credits & deductions, bonus depreciation, expensing, standard mileage rates, employment taxation, repatriation of foreign income, small business stock, partnership taxation, and excessive compensation.
3. Specify differences between various retirement plans, including inflation-adjusted contribution limits and phaseout limits, and determine estate taxes by identifying trust income tax rates and determining applicable exclusion amounts.
After studying the materials, answer exam questions 1 to 30.


Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.
Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.
Field of Study: Taxes
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.
Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date: 1/2/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Perhaps the term "fringe benefits"  is somewhat of a misnomer, since it connotates peripheral importance. With many companies expending over a third of their payroll on such items, they are hardly inconsequential. A fringe benefit is a form of pay for the performance of services. For example, taxpayer provides an employee with a fringe benefit when they allow the employee to use a business vehicle to commute to and from work. A person who performs services for a taxpayer doesn't have to be their employee. A person may perform services as an independent contractor, partner, or director.

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Revision Date: 2/19/2025

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

The mini-course will examine tax issues relating to the formation and operation of partnerships. Participants will gain a familiarity with basic areas of partnership taxation so as to recognize a problem and have at hand some practical knowledge for its solution.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Partnership definition

* Partnership income

* Partnership tax return

* Year taxable

* Transactions between partner & partnership

* Contributions to partnerships

* Sales & exchanges of partnership interests

* Partnership distributions

* Partnership liquidations

* Limited liability companies

Learning Objectives

After reading the chapter, participants will be able to:

1. Explain the tax treatment of partnerships listing advantages and disadvantages and demonstrating their affect on income attribution.

2. Calculate and report partnership income by:

a. Identifying filing requirements and the impact partnership K-1’s on individual or partner taxation; and

b. Specifying loss deduction limitations and explaining the tax treatment of guaranteed payments, organizational expenses and other fees.      

3. Analyze the tax treatment of contributions of property to a partnership under Statute 721 and describe the impact on tax basis.

4. Determine the tax treatment of partnership distributions and sale of partnership interests by:

a. Explaining the tax treatment of partner liabilities and of sales and exchanges of partnership interests and property; and

b. Distinguishing between liquidating and nonliquidating payments including determination of a partner’s basis on such an event.

Revision Date: 3/19/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Tax Cuts & Jobs Act ("TCJA") Summary

The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act ("TCJA") was approved by Congress December 20, 2017, and signed by President Trump on December 22, 2017. The Act impacts virtually every individual and business in a way not seen in over 30 years. With most provisions effective 2018, it lowers the individual and corporate tax rates, repeals numerous tax credits and deductions, enhances the child tax credit, boosts business expensing, and impacts the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by effectively repealing the individual mandate. 

This course is an overview providing reference to selected individual, education, business, retirement, insurance, international and estate tax provisions enacted or indexed for inflation by the TCJA. The resulting major tax changes carry special meaning to the tax practitioner and return preparer. The course is intended to be a resource for tax professionals and staff alike to gain easy access to the most important major changes enacted by TCJA.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Learning Objective:

After completing this course, you should be able to:

1. Apply changes imposed by the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (TCJA) relating to individual income taxes by identifying:

a. modifications to tax rates & the personal exemption,

b. AMT exemptions,

c. changes to the child tax credit,

d. new educational incentives & student loan discharge rules,

e.  Mortgage interest & suspended deduction provisions, and

f.  Alimony & estate taxation changes.

2. Point out key TCJA business provisions, including new corporate tax rates, expanded §179 expensing, denial of certain entertainment expenses, and business credits.

3.  Recognize TCJA  changes to:

a. insurance taxation,

b. tax treatment of excess of compensation,

c. deferred foreign income provisions, and

d. exempt organization and international taxation.

Revision Date 1/20/2020

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

This mini-course brings the practitioner information on tax issues affecting interest and debt. The various types of interest and their required allocation are explored and reviewed. For the economically troubled client, special attention is devoted to debt cancellation, repossession, discounts, and foreclosure. The program also discusses installment sales, taxable interest, and bad debts.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

 Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date: 2/19/2025

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Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Interest

This course focuses on tax issues affecting the treatment of interest and debt. It covers the definition of bona fide debt, the impact of related parties, the avoidance of equity and lease characterization, and deductible versus nondeductible interest factors. Sticky cross issues such as the impact of at-risk rules under §465, passive loss restrictions of §469, and below-market rate loans under §7278 are examined. In addition, the accounting method treatment of interest, points, prepaid interest, and discounted loans are reviewed. Particular attention is given to imputed interest and original issue discount.

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:
1. Determine "interest" and select how much is tax deductible under §163 by:
  a. Identifying what constitutes bona fide debt considering economic substance and purpose and the differences that such debt has from installment sales, long-term & leveraged leases, and annuities;
  b. Specifying how transactions with family members and controlled corporations can recharacterize alleged indebtedness into gift or business equity naming the factors used in this recharacterization and;
  c. Recognizing incentives to use corporate debt instead of equity and the special treatment of failed equity investment under §1244.
2. Identify deductible interest and special calculation concepts and procedures by:
  a. Recognizing the allocation of interest based on the debt's business or personal purpose specifying the application of any carryover rules;
  b. Determining net investment income including its impact on the deductibility of investment interest;
  c. Recognizing the special tax treatment given to student loans, margin accounts, and market discount bonds stating what happens to any disallowed interest expense; and
  d. Specifying the timing considerations in interest reporting including interest paid in advance.
3. Recognize nondeductible interest types and provisions that through restriction create nondeductible interest by:
  a. Identifying when interest is nondeductible personal interest under §163(h)(1);
  b. Determining the disallowance of interest related to tax-exempt income under §265, the life insurance interest restrictions of §264; the §465 at-risk limitations and application of the §469 passive    loss rules; and
  c. Specifying the treatment of certain commitment fees and service charges based on R.R. 67-297 and caselaw.
4. Identify interest under the cash or accrual method recognizing the special elections applicable to and treatment of carrying charges under §266, below-market loans, and imputed interest.
After studying the materials, answer exam questions 1 to 10.

Revision Date: 2/24/25

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.
Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.
Field of Study: Taxes
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.
Advanced Preparation: None
 

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Introduction

When filing a federal income tax return, it is very important to know who is actually required to file a return and the criteria surrounding the filing of a federal income tax return. Due to the inclusion of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, filing requirements for individual taxpayers have been drastically altered.  This course will focus on the updated filing requirements surrounding individual taxpayers across all filing types. Additionally, this course will go into detail regarding the updated basic standard deduction, additional standard deduction, personal deduction, and penalty amounts. Finally, this course will go over the filing of a deceased taxpayer’s federal income tax return and the treatment of decedent income.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

·        Recognize the new standard deduction amounts across all filing statuses,

·        Identify the requirements that must be met to file as any of the five filing statuses,

·        Identify the new standard deduction and additional standard deduction amounts,

·        Recognize the circumstances that will disallow taxpayers from taking the standard deduction,

·        Identify when a taxpayer is required to file their federal income tax return,

·        Recognize the various penalties associated with filing a return or paying taxes late, and

·        Identify the tax responsibilities and treatment of income associated with a recently deceased taxpayer.

CPE Credit: 2 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Level: Intermediate

Instructional Method: Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study: Taxes

Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal tax code.

Revision Date: 4/23/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Individual retirement accounts are investing tools that permit individuals to set aside money for retirement in a way that is preferential from a tax standpoint. This course will review the following types of IRA accounts: Traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs and SEP IRAs. This course will describe who is allowed to open and contribute to an IRA account during the taxable year. This course will identify when contributions are deductible and when they are not deductible. This course will describe the time allowed to rollover distributions and the ramifications of not completing rollovers within the allotted time. Finally, this course will describe when taxpayers are permitted to take distributions from an IRA account.

Learning Objectives:

 At the end of this course, students will be able to:

·       Identify the requirements for serving as a trustee for an IRA account.

·       Recognize the requirements for opening a traditional IRA account.

·       Recognize the maximum contribution that can be made by a taxpayer to an IRA account.

·       Calculate the amount of a partial deduction to an IRA account.

·       Identify when a taxpayer must start receiving distributions form an IRA account.

·       Calculate the amount of minimum distributions from an IRA account.

·       Recognize prohibited transactions for an IRA account.

·       Recognize the maximum contribution that can be made by a taxpayer to a Roth IRA account.

CPE Credit: 4 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Level: Intermediate

Instructional Method: Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study: Taxes

Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal income taxation concepts.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date: 3/27/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Introduction

Gifts are a commonly used method to reduce the amount of estate taxes owed. This course has been updated to reflect all current changes to tax law as practitioners prepare returns in 2021. This course will explore the topic of gift taxes. It will explain when gifts are free of tax liability and identify various scenarios where filing a gift tax return is required.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be

•           Describe what financial transactions constitute a gift.

•           Recognize when a gift transaction is completed.

•           Identify the annual gift exclusion amount.

•           Differentiate between present interest and future interest gifts.

•           Recognize the types of gifts that are not subject to gift taxes.

•           Recognize the benefits of gift splitting.

•           Identify the form that is used for gift taxes and the due date for submitting it.

CPE Credit: 3 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Level: Intermediate

Instructional Method: Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study: Taxes

Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal income taxation concepts.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date: 4/23/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Introduction

Estate taxes are one of the taxes covered by the IRS’s unified transfer tax system. Estate taxes are designed to collect taxes from transferring property at death. Proper planning can save a substantial amount of money in taxes. This course will discuss estate planning and estate taxes. This course will describe the tools that are available for estate planning and will define the benefits of using each tool. This course will describe how to identify what is included in the gross estate and demonstrate how to calculate the gross estate amounts.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be

• Describe estate taxes and the purpose of estate taxes according to the Internal Revenue Code (IRC),
• Identify the various types of trusts that can be used for estate planning,
• Recognize what is included in the gross estate of a decedent,
• Calculate the gross estate of a decedent,
• Recognize the various deductions and credits available when calculating the gross estate of a decedent, and
• Describe the purpose of Generation Skipping Transfers and the Generation Skipping Transfer Tax according to the IRC.

Revision Date: 4/23/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (P.L. 115-97), enacted Dec. 22, 2017, created, under Statute 199A, a new deduction for up to 20% of qualified business income (QBI) from partnerships, limited liability companies (LLCs), S corporations, trusts, estates, and sole proprietorships for tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2017. However, determining the Statute 199A deduction amount and availability is a very complex multi-step process that may phase out some or all of the deduction.

In the face of this complexity, the text provides a selected overview of the basic components of this below-the-line deduction. Qualified business income, taxpayer's taxable income, wage/capital limit, specified services trade or businesses, and other key components are not only defined and calculated but their interaction is demonstrated and exampled.

Learning Assignment & Objectives

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

ASSIGNMENT

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:

* Deduction amount

* Wage/capital limit

* Qualified business income

* Qualified trade or business

* Specify service trade or business

* De minimis regulatory rule

* Domestic business

Learning Objectives

After reading the materials, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize Statute 199A's limited effective time period, its complex calculation process and the general exclusions, limits, and restrictions applicable to the provision.

2. Determine the Statute 199A deduction amount, the type of W-2 wages used in calculating the wage/capital limit and specify how the limit impacts the amount and availability of the deduction.

3. Identify qualified business income and loss, its basic components, and the ability of a taxpayer to aggregate businesses in its determination.

4. Recognize the specified services trade or business exclusion, the listed excluded services and the important exceptions provided by the regulatory de minimis rule. Identify a domestic trade or business.

After studying the materials, answer the exam questions 1 to 15.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date:  2/6/25

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

Estate taxes are one of the taxes covered by the IRS’s unified transfer tax system. Estate taxes are designed to collect taxes from transferring property at death. Proper planning can save a substantial amount of money in taxes. This course will discuss estate planning and estate taxes. This course will describe the tools that are available for estate planning and will define the benefits of using each tool. This course will describe how to identify what is included in the gross estate and demonstrate how to calculate the gross estate amounts. This course has been updated to reflect all current changes to tax law and amounts for 2021.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

•           Describe estate taxes and the purpose of estate taxes according to the Internal Revenue Code (IRC),

•           Identify the various types of trusts that can be used for estate planning,

•           Recognize what is included in the gross estate of a decedent,

•           Calculate the gross estate of a decedent,

•           Recognize the various deductions and credits available when calculating the gross estate of a decedent,

•           Recognize the benefits of electing portability and calculating portability exemption amounts, and

•           Describe the purpose of Generation Skipping Transfers and the Generation Skipping Transfer Tax according to the IRC.

CPE Credit: 6 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Level: Intermediate

Instructional Method: Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study: Taxes

Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal income taxation and estate concepts.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date: 4/18/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Coronavirus Tax Summary

Mini-Course Description:
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act was signed by President Trump on March 18, 2020. Later on March 27, 2020, he signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act,  with a $2.2 trillion price tag. These Acts have been supplemented by pronouncements from the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service. These emergency coronavirus provisions are intended to limit the spread of the pandemic, support relief efforts, and stabilize the economy.
This course is an overview and summary of tax provisions contained in the above legislation and government pronouncements. It provides a reference to selected individual, business, retirement, employment, filing, and charitable tax provisions adopted. The resulting major tax impact carries special meaning to the tax practitioner and return preparer. The course is intended to be a resource for tax professionals and staff alike to gain easy access to the most important major changes.

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

Field of Study: Taxes

Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

Advanced Preparation: None

Learning Assignment & Objectives
As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.
ASSIGNMENT
At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:
* Related Treasury & IRS notices and pronouncements
* Families First Coronavirus Response Act paid leave requirements
* Modified income tax filing & payment deadlines
* CARES & ARPA Act tax provisions
Learning Objectives
After reading the materials, participants will be able to:
1. Identify permissible HSA payments, allowable FFCRA payroll tax credits and paid leave, postponement of tax filing and payment deadlines, and the Stafford Act.
2. Recognize the tax provisions of the CARES, CAA & ARPA Acts including recovery rebates, above-the-line charitable contributions, deferral of payroll tax, loan forgiveness, employee retention credits, remote medical services, business losses, COBRA, and unemployment benefits.
After studying the materials, answer exam questions 1 to 17.
 

Completion Deadline & Exam: This course, including the examination, must be completed within one year of the date of purchase. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, no correct or incorrect feedback for any exam question will be provided.

 Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.

 Field of Study: Taxes

 Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.

 Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date: 4/5/24

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Introduction
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package, is a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021.
This act was passed to speed up the United States' recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession.
This legislation was first proposed on January 14, 2021, the package builds upon many of the measures in the CARES Act from March and in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, from December.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Identify the amount provided via direct deposit for individuals
• Distinguish the FPUC benefit amount
• Identify the age of eligibility for the childless Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
• Identify the increase maximum amount for Child Tax Credit
• Distinguish the maximum amount of employees businesses may employ to remain eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
• Identity the amount of funds allocated for restaurants, bars, and other eligible providers of food and drink
• Identify the amount of funds provided for the Veterans Health Administration (VA) to provide healthcare services and related support to eligible veterans
CPE Credit: 5 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Revision Date: 4/18/2024

Level: Intermediate
Instructional Method: Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study: Taxes
Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal tax code.
Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date:  4/18/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Introduction

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of forms the current foundation of the US tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is organized into four primary sections of: Individual Tax Reform, Business Tax Reform, Exempt Organizations and International provisions. This is an updated course for 2021 that will provide a quick review of all four portions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Bill (H.R.1.) and it also includes the provisions that have changed for 2021. This course will provide a summary description of all provisions referenced in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for each of the primary sections. It will identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Review the Individual Tax Reform provisions and identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021;

• Review the Business Tax Reform provisions and identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021;

• Review the Exempt Organizations provisions and identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021;

• Review the International Tax provisions and identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021; and

• Identify the effective dates for all provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

CPE Credit: 3 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Level: Intermediate

Instructional Method: Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study: Taxes

Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal tax code.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date:  4/18/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Introduction

The American Rescue Plan of 2021 is the latest COVID-19 relief package that provides $1.9 trillion in mandatory funding, program changes and tax policies aimed at mitigating the continuing effects of the pandemic. The bill was crafted to provide urgent and targeted funding to defeat the virus and provide workers and families the resources they need to survive the pandemic while the vaccine is distributed to every American.

The American Rescue Plan of 2021 was passed by the House Feb. 27, 2021, and the Senate March 6, 2021. It was signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021. The American Rescue Plan of 2021 will cost of $1.9 trillion making it one of the largest economic rescue plans in U.S. history.

The American Rescue Plan of 2021 is the latest legislation to facilitate recovering from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This legislation following the CARES Act of 2020 and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. This Act extends some aspects of those bills while also creating new recovery provisions. It mixes efforts to mitigate the economic effects of the pandemic with strategies to fight the virus itself.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify the amount of aid allocated for local governmental assistance

2. Identify the amount of aid provided to qualifying dependents in direct payments

3. Determine the date extension of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), as well as the FPUC amount

4. Identify the new amount of Child Tax Credit

5. Identify the amount provided for the Veterans Health Administration

CPE Credit: 2 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Level: Intermediate

Instructional Method: Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study: Taxes

Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal tax code.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date:4/18/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Introduction

The U.S has been met with unprecedented challenges during the Coronavirus pandemic. Over the course of 2020 and 2021, three major spending bills were enacted into law that were meant to provide aid to individuals, companies, and industries that were affected by the various changes and restrictions onset by the Coronavirus pandemic. Those bills were the American Rescue Plan Act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, and the CARES Act. This course will provide an overview of these three bills that were meant to address the hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This course will also provide a detailed look into the latest bill enacted from the three, the American Rescue Plan Act, and how that bill has affected the wider tax landscape within the U.S.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify the amount provided via direct deposit for individuals

• Distinguish the FPUC benefit amount

• Identify the age of eligibility for the childless Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

• Identify the increase maximum amount for Child Tax Credit

• Identify the amount of funding allocated to various programs within the Consolidated Appropriations Act.

• Identify which Division of the Consolidated Appropriations Act is meant to help which industries and individuals.

• Identify the amount of funding allocated for the various programs within the CARES Act including the Paycheck Protection Program

• Determine what the different provisions under the CARES Act are designed to perform

• Identify the maximum amounts of taxpayer income before being phased out of rebates

• Determine the maximum amount of employees an employer may have before losing employee retention credit capabilities

CPE Credit: 9 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Revision Date: 4/18/2024

Level: Intermediate

Instructional Method: Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study: Taxes

Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal tax code.

Advanced Preparation: None

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
Click here to view cancellation and record retention policies

Introduction

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of forms the current foundation of the US tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is organized into four primary sections of: Individual Tax Reform, Business Tax Reform, Exempt Organizations and International provisions. This is an updated course for 2021 that will provide a thorough review of all four portions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Bill (H.R.1.) as well as any changes for the 2021 tax yar. Part 1 of this course will provide a summary description of all provisions referenced in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for each of the primary sections. It will identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021. Each provision will reference a more detailed description of the provision in Part 2 of this course. The detailed description will review the pre-2018 law, provide a detailed description of the changes for 2018 and identify the effective date that the provision became effective.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Review the Individual Tax Reform provisions and identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021;

• Review the Business Tax Reform provisions and identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021;

• Review the Exempt Organizations provisions and identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021;

• Review the International Tax provisions and identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021.

• Identify where to find more information about each provision in part 2 of this course; and

• Identify the effective dates for all provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

CPE Credit: 30 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Level: Intermediate

Instructional Method: Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study: Taxes

Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal tax code.

Advanced Preparation: None

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
Click here to view cancellation and record retention policies

Introduction

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of forms the current foundation of the US tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is organized into four primary sections of: Individual Tax Reform, Business Tax Reform, Exempt Organizations and International provisions. This is an updated course for 2021 that will provide a thorough review of the Business Tax Reform portion of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Bill (H.R.1.) as well as any changes for the 2021 tax yar. Part 1 of this course will provide a summary description of all provisions referenced in the Business Tax Reform section of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It will identify which sections changed when the tax law was enacted in 2018 and which were updated for 2021. Each provision will reference a more detailed description of the provision in Part 2 of this course. The detailed description will review the pre-2018 law, provide a detailed description of the changes for 2018 and identify the effective date that the provision became effective.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Review the Business Tax Reform provisions and identify the provisions that have been changed, the provisions that were not changed, and those that were updated for 2021;

• Identify the modified corporate tax rates for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017;

• Recognize the new charitable contribution rules that apply to corporations;

• Identify where to find more information about each provision in part 2 of this course; and

• Identify the effective date for all provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

CPE Credit: 13 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Level: Intermediate

Instructional Method: Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study: Taxes

Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal tax code.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date:  4/18/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
Click here to view cancellation and record retention policies

Introduction

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of forms the current foundation of the US tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is organized into four primary sections of: Individual Tax Reform, Business Tax Reform, Exempt Organizations and International provisions. This is an updated course for 2021 that will provide a thorough review of the Individual Tax Reform section of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Bill (H.R.1.) as well as any changes for the 2021 tax yar. Part 1 of this course will provide a summary description of all provisions referenced in Individual Tax Reform section of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It will identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021. Each provision will reference a more detailed description of the provision in Part 2 of this course. The detailed description will review the pre-2018 law, provide a detailed description of the changes for 2018 and identify the effective date that the provision became effective.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Review the Individual Tax Reforms provisions and identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2021;

• Recognize the tax rate changes for the four types of individual taxpayers

• Recognize the new standard deduction amounts for the four types of individual taxpayers

• Identify where to find more information about each provision in part 2 of this course; and

• Identify the effective date for all individual tax provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

CPE Credit: 8 CPE for CPAs and EAs

Level: Intermediate

Instructional Method: Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study: Taxes

Program Prerequisites: Basic understanding of federal tax code.

Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date:  4/18/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Course Description:

For most of 2022, it was doubtful that Congress would enact any tax legislation. However, Democrats were finally able to negotiate and pass the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022. This course summarizes the tax legislation embodied in the IRA permitting students to advise clients on how these changes can impact tax planning.
This course is an overview providing reference to selected individual, business, and corporate tax provisions enacted, extended, or modified by the IRA. The resulting major tax changes carry special meaning to the tax practitioner and return preparer. The course emphasizes a general overview of energy tax credits and incentives, taxes and fees on fossil fuel, major features of the reinstated corporate AMT, electric vehicles, stock repurchases, and selected non-tax aspects of the legislation.
The course is intended to be a resource for tax professionals and staff alike to gain easy access to the most important major changes enacted by the IRA.

Learning Assignment & Objectives:

As a result of studying the assigned materials, you should be able to meet the objectives listed below.

At the start of the materials, participants should identify the following topics for study:
Electric vehicle credit modifications and changes
Home & residential tax credits, deductions & exclusions
Renewable energy credits & incentives
Research credit against payroll tax
Limitation on excess business loss
Repurchase of corporate stock
Corporate alternative minimum tax
Selected non-tax provisions

Learning Objectives

   Apply changes imposed by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) relating to credits allowed for the individual acquisition of qualified electric vehicles and energy-efficient home improvements and     property.
   Recognize a wide spectrum of renewable energy credits and the application of the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements.
   Specify key IRA business and Medicare provisions, including energy-efficient buildings, corporate AMT, loss limits, and drug reforms.

Course Level: Overview. This program is appropriate for professionals at all organizational levels.
Field of Study: Taxes
Prerequisite: General understanding of federal income taxation.
Advanced Preparation: None

Revision Date:  3/27/2024

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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Please note this course is a chapter from the larger 8 credit course "AI Essentials for CPAs - Exploring Cutting Edge Technology" . You cannot get credit for both courses.

AI Series Moduel 3 – Considerations in Tax Preparation & Research

Course Overview
This course provides an overview of the AI considerations with respect to tax preparation and tax research.  This includes a discussion of how AI technology can be used in tax preparation, including automated data collection and tax optimization strategies.  This course also addresses how AI can be used in tax research, including how CPAs can best leverage ChatGPT.  This course concludes with a discussion of how the IRS is also using AI technology in its enforcement efforts.  

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
     Recognize AI's role in tax preparation activities
     Identify how AI can assist CPAs in tax research
     Recognize how AI is being used by the IRS
     Identify how to write effective ChatGPT prompts when performing tax research

Revision Date: 3/27/24

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed
Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
Click here to view cancellation and record retention policies