2025 Tax Essentials: What You Need to Know WEBCAST

Overview

This 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.

Highlights

Key individual, business, retirement, and estate tax provisions.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

CPAs.

Objectives

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. Determine the key business tax issues affected by inflation adjustments and recent legislative changes, including corporate tax rates, entertainment expenses, tax credits, tax deductions, bonus depreciation, expensing, standard mileage rates, employment taxation, low-income housing tax credit, Section 1031 exchange property, partnership taxation, insurance deductions, excessive compensation, and investment income. Specify differences between various retirement plans, including inflation-adjusted contribution limits and phaseout limits. Determine estate taxes by identifying trust income tax rates and determining applicable exclusion amounts.

Preparation

None.

Notice

None.