Reviewing Individual Tax Returns: What Are You Missing

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Reviewers often miss common errors practitioners make on individual tax returns. This informative CPE course is designed to sharpen the reviewer’s skills by:

• Examining case studies
• Discussing issues for which additional information from the client may be warranted
• Reviewing areas of tax law that require additional analysis and information.
• The course covers multiple issues, Section 199A, the qualified business income deduction, the home office deduction, hobby losses, rental properties, hiring of spouses, depreciation, Section 179 issues, organization and start−up costs and more!

CPE Credits: 5

Topics Discussed

• Section 199A qualified business income deduction
• Time share properties
• Home office
• Hobby losses
• Self-employment health insurance
• Business start-up costs
• Depreciation
• Unreported income
• Schedule C issues
• Like-kind exchanges
• Self-employment tax
• Sections 1202 and 1244 stock
• Charitable contributions of property

Learning Objectives

• Identify potential errors or omissions of information on tax returns
• Recognize planning opportunities for your clients based upon information reported on a tax return.
• Determine the proper tax treatment for certain rental property activities.
• Identify Section 199A qualified business income deduction opportunities and the safe harbor for rental properties.
• Apply Section 199A regulations to specified service trade or busniess activities.
• Apply IRC regulations to losses on time share and vacation properties.
• Analyze the effect a home office deduction has on depreciation recapture.
• Determine the proper tax treatment for various start-up costs by a new business.
• Recognize the possibility that clients may not be disclosing all of their reportable income.
• Determine proper tax return reporting of a like-kind exchange transaction.

Who will benefit

• CPAs working with clients requiring up-to-date expertise in individual income taxation for the current tax season