If you share a vacation home with family members, holding it in a limited liability company (LLC) is one option that offers several important benefits. Here are a few: Asset protection. By establishing an LLC to own the home and transferring interests to family members, you can protect the home against claims by a family [...]
Save Time By Memorizing Transactions in QuickBooks Do you create the same transactions repeatedly? QuickBooks allows you to memorize them. Accounting involves a lot of repetition. You send invoices and receive payments and pay bills, over and over. Sometimes they’re similar enough every month that you’d swear you already processed them. QuickBooks has a feature [...]
Stock market swings may bring fortune or fear, so investors shouldn’t forget about the helpful balance of bonds. Perhaps the most “user friendly” is a U.S. government savings bond. Buying one means you’re essentially lending the federal government money at a certain interest rate in exchange for a future return. U.S. savings bonds don’t offer [...]
Trusts can be a useful tool for affluent individuals and families when it comes to wealth management, protection and growth. But there are a wide variety to choose from, so it’s important to clearly understand the benefits and limits of a trust before choosing any one type. WHAT’S A TRUST? A trust is a legal [...]
If you’re a parent, or soon will be, you’re no doubt aware of how expensive it is to pay for food, clothes, activities and education. Fortunately, the federal child tax credit is available to help many taxpayers with children under the age of 17, and there’s a dependent credit for those who are eligible with [...]
Among the primary goals of estate planning is to put in writing how you want your wealth distributed to loved ones after your death. But what if you want to use that wealth to help a family member in need while you’re still alive? This has become an increasingly common and pressing issue this year [...]