Understanding Employee Taxes

Employee taxes can be one of the most difficult to understand areas of running a business and hiring employees. If you don’t understand all of the complexities involving employee payroll tax, it can also get you into a heap of trouble.

The first employee tax factor you should understand is…

Figuring Your Basis, Get It Right, Reduce Your Taxes, Get It Wrong and Pay Much Higher Taxes

The scenario is as follows

Ed purchased a house on an acre of land from Ruth. Prior to the purchase Ed has been renting the house from Ruth for $1000 per month. Ed paid the following:

$100,000 in loan proceeds to Ruth
$2,000 in points to the bank
$1,000 in real estate taxes<…

Saving Taxes Offshore

Many believe that if you open a bank account offshore at any of the popular jurisdictions such as Panama or Belize, then that bank account would be out of the reach of home tax authorities and you can pretty much do as you please with it. Further it is thought by some that any earnings from said …