Individual Income Tax Return Mistakes & How To Fix Them [INB4]

Subject:

Sep 19, 2017
Time: 12:30pm-4:00pm
Taxation

Credit Hours:

4.00

Price:

Member: $150.00
Non-member: $295.00

Discussion Leader:

Susan Smith, CPA

Susan Smith manages her own firm specializing in tax planning for individuals and business owners and is also a frequent speaker at tax conferences. Smith was a Senior Manager in the tax departments of Price Waterhouse and Peat Marwick (the predecessor of KPMG). While at Price Waterhouse, she also held the national specialist designation for the real estate and partnership tax practices. During her time at Peat Marwick, Smith led the real estate and tax practices locally. She was an associate adjunct professor at Widener University in the master’s taxation program. Her ratings have consistently exceeded 4.8 on a scale of 5.0. Smith is a four-time recipient of the James L. McCoy Discussion Leader of the Year Award for excellence in teaching. And in 2015, 2016, and 2018, she received the Surgent Outstanding Discussion Leader Award because of her consistently high evaluations for knowledge and presentation skills. Smith earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree with an accounting concentration, from the University of Toledo.

Full Description

Individual Income Tax Return Mistakes and How to Fix Them (INB4)

September 19, 2017

ACS Business Technology Center
600 East 36th Avenue, Suite 100
Anchorage, AK

LATE REGISTRATION POLICY
For registrations received less than 21 days from the course date will be charged a late fee of $50 for each 8 hour course and $25 for each 4 hour course and $12.50 for each 2 hour course.

The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray, the same is true for taxpayers. Every practitioner has been confronted with a client who had a different twist on a tax idea. This course focuses on the law in order to break down 25 situations in which a taxpayer has attempted to push one of these ideas. The study of the law underlying the tax mistakes made will assist practitioners in satisfying their professional standards of practice and will help you in preparing Form 1040.

Major Topics:
- Applicable coverage of recent tax acts and any new legislation enacted before presentation
- Individual income tax cases regarding income, adjustments, passive activities, and itemized deductions
- When "Gifts" can be taxable
- Hazy situation, two seemingly similar cases, yet one results in ordinary tax treatment, the other capital treatment. (Heads they win, tails we lose).
- When a "Rollover" is not a rollover, the Claim of Right Doctrine
- I want to protect my identity, but I also need to protect my PTIN
- Failing alimony's written instrument requirement
- Failing alimony's same household requirement
- Failing to understand the limits on 401K loans
- Trying to carry back a tax loss that has yet to occur
- No deduction for donating a house to fire department
- Failure to report income witnessed by 20 million people
- Form 8938 for reporting foreign financial assets and updated rules. How much trouble results in not filing a FinCEN Form 114?
- Financial planning -- Ignoring the future of Social Security; miscues in rollovers and retirement plan distributions; the bad, the good, and the ugly of early retirement

Learning Objectives:
- Achieve significant insight into the major mistakes that can be made in individual tax and financial planning
- Develop strategies that will assist in not only avoiding mistakes but also in providing the best advice to your clients

Designed For: CPAs who wish to get a deeper insight into underlying tax law for some common client transactions that many offices have seen, plus some not so common client transactions

CPE Credits: 4, Taxation

Level of Knowledge: Intermediate

Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of individual income taxation

Acronym: INB4

Discussion Leader: Susan Smith, CPA