WHAT TAX KNOW-HOW RELATED ARTICLES ARE ABOUT!
Tax Know-How Articles deal with any and all taxes that affect your. These are income tax, gift tax, estate tax, and tax on investments. Even how Social Security is taxed too - and affected by working. Here is where you'll get how the tax works in each of these situations.  Some tax-related articles my occur in Social Security and other categories, so keep reviewing them all for the information you need.

TAX KNOW-HOW RELATED aRTICLES BELOW

Estate Tax – A Moving Target
How your estate is taxed when you die is a moving target. This article summarizes where we are right now...read more

2010 Estate Tax Alert – Retroactively Imposed is Unconstitutional 
For 10 years the estate tax was set in law to be abolished in 2010. If congress didn’t act to keep it abolished or modify it for 2011 and beyond, then the 2011 estate tax would just revert to that of 2000. Now congress is considering retroactively imposing an estate tax for 2010 later in 2010...read more

Even Less Reason in 2010 to Withdraw From Your Tax-Deferred Accounts
During your retirement, you’re often advised to live off your taxable accounts first before using your tax-deferred accounts. That’s because withdrawing from your tax-deferred accounts will tax you more whereas keeping them untouched allows them to grow faster than your taxable accounts...read more

No Stepped-Up Basis for Estate Inheritors of Those Dying in 2010
Up until 2010, property owned by a decedent at the time of death of his death had its tax basis changed from what the decedent’s basis was to its fair market value – whichever was higher. For the year 2010 – and only that year – the law has been changed to ‘whatever is lower’...read more

Estate Taxes Can Bite You Bad after the Year of Kevorkian
The estate tax is the government’s last bite out of you when you die. It’s a tax on the value of your estate at your death. And it can be a big bite. You better read on....read more

Gift Taxes – What, When, How Much, and Exclusions
When you transfer your wealth by gifting or dying, the federal government wants part of ‘the action’. Active giving can trigger a federal gift tax whereas dying triggers the federal estate tax too. Both are paid when you die out of your estate....read more

Your Home Carries a Huge Capital Gains Exclusion Benefit
Home ownership carries a couple of major tax-benefits. One is the deductibility of your interest portion of your mortgage payments. The other is that much of your gains can be excluded when you sell your home.  Let’s take a look at the latter to show you the conditions under which you can reap ‘tax-free’ so much of the equity increase of you home...read more

How Much Income Tax Are the Feds Really Taking from You?
If you’re trying to save money, you ought to know how much the federal government is taking from what you earn. Most people just don’t know. Finding out will show you why it’s hard to get ahead...read more 

How Taxation Rules Your Investment Options
You grow your savings so to use them later. Outside of contributing they grow according to how you invest them. Government’s taxation plays an important part in how you choose what to invest in and how to hold that investment...read more

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