Business | Tax Considerations
Here are several 在2020年底之前,您可以实施的强大的营业税减免策略:
Delaying Income
Stop Billing Customers, Clients, and Patients
在2020年12月31日之前,停止向你的客户、客户和病人收费. (We assume here that you or your
corporation is on a cash basis and operates on the calendar year) Customers, clients, patients, and insurance companies
generally don’t pay until billed. 不向客户和病人收费是一种久经考验的税收规划策略
business owners have used successfully for years.
Maximizing & Accelerating Deductions
Prepay Expenses
IRS regulations contain a safe-harbor rule that allows cash-basis taxpayers to prepay and deduct qualifying expenses up
to 12 months in advance without challenge, adjustment, or change by the IRS.
For a cash-basis taxpayer, 符合条件的费用可能包括商务车辆的租赁费、车辆的租金
offices and machinery, and business and malpractice insurance premiums.
Buy Business Equipment
奖金折旧现在为100%,同时增加了第179条费用的限额, buy your vehicles, equipment or
machinery and place it in service before December 31, 2020 and get a deduction for 100 percent of the cost in 2020.
合格的奖金折旧和第179条购买包括新的和使用过的个人财产,如机器,
设备、电脑、桌椅和其他家具(以及某些符合条件的车辆).
Use Your Credit Cards
如果您是单人有限责任公司或独资经营者,为您的业务提交附表C, the day you charge a purchase to
your business or personal credit card is the day you deduct the expense. Therefore, as a Schedule C taxpayer, you should
考虑用信用卡在最后一刻购买办公用品和其他商业必需品.
If you operate your business as a corporation, and if the corporation has a credit card in the corporate name, the same
规则适用:费用的日期是公司的扣除日期.
但如果你是一家公司,你是信用卡的个人所有人, the corporation
must reimburse you if you want the corporation to realize the tax deduction, and that happens on the date of
reimbursement. Thus, 提交你的费用报告,让你的公司在12月31日前给你报销, 2020.
Other Year-End Housekeeping Items
Health Insurance for >2% S-Corp Shareholders
If you pay for health insurance through, or are reimbursed by your S Corporation, the correct tax reporting for any
拥有公司2%以上股份的股东将在他们的2020年W-2表格中包括支付的医疗保险
Boxes 1 & 16 and Box 14. The health insurance payments are not subject to payroll taxes. All you need to do is inform
公司为股东支付了XX美元的健康保险. The payroll
税务部门应该知道这意味着什么,然后应该在股东的W-2表格上写明金额, as appropriate, added
to wages reported in Boxes 1 & 16, with the amount of health insurance also reported in Box 14. If this is not done, the
美国国税局的立场是,健康保险将被视为一个逐项扣除受制于7.5% of AGI limitation.
(Please make sure the payroll is done correctly to include the health insurance premiums for >2% Shareholders on their
2020 Form W-2).
Personal Use of Company Car (PUCC)
If you reimburse yourself for auto mileage from your company, then read no further on this subject, as what follows will
not apply to you. 然而,如果你的公司为你支付所有的汽车费用,你就必须包括
PUCC fringe benefit amount in your W-2. 它被认为是你的应税收入,需要缴纳工资税
also appear in Box 14. 加上这个附加福利,你就可以勾销公司所有的汽车费用. The
这个附加福利的计算并不十分复杂——你所需要知道的就是这个的近似值
auto when it was placed in service, 以及2020年驾驶的里程数——包括个人和总里程数
year. Click links to download a worksheet and table that will allow you to make this calculation. An alternative calculation is
使用“通勤价值法”,即包括每天3元作为补偿,或每年780元. Including PUCC in
your W-2 will show that you are complying with the fringe benefit rules, and if this does apply to you, we recommend you
include the appropriate amount on your W-2. 您将需要通知您的工资服务的PUCC附带福利
should be included on your 2020 W-2. 或者,你可以报销公司的个人使用金额,而不是
include any amount as a fringe benefit.
Download PUCC Worksheet
Download PUCC Table
Reimburse Yourself
请务必报销您在本年度可能代表公司支付的费用.
Related expenses may include travel, business meals and mileage, supplies, postage, phone, home office expenses, dues and subscriptions,
etc. 这样做很重要的原因是,这样费用就会在公司全额扣除
level. Otherwise you may be leaving deductible expenses on the table, because if you try to deduct them as employee
business expenses on your individual return, they are considered miscellaneous itemized deductions and are no longer
deductible for federal tax purposes. Click here for an Excel template to organize and help document your expense
reimbursement, 然后你剩下要做的就是给自己开一张支票或者抵消你之前可能有的分配
already made to yourself.
Download Expense Reimbursement Template
Unemployment (without Withholding)
如果你今年一直在领取失业救济金,并且没有代扣联邦或州所得税,
考虑一下你今年的收入,以决定你是否应该进行第四季度的预估纳税.