After Alabama made its state law conform to the federal law, California and New Jersey are the only two remaining states that don't recognize Health Savings Accounts. After reading my updated Best HSA ...
Paying Taxes: By The Book Or Catch Me
As the calendar flipped over to 2018, the frenzy of prepaying property tax is finally over. As I observed in emails and Internet postings it occurred to me there are two opposite camps when it comes ...
IRS Advisory On Prepaying Property Tax In 2017
At the end of the previous post on making the mortgage payment due on January 1 in December, I wrote: Similarly, if the 2018 property tax bill hasn’t come out yet, prepaying now to just have the ...
Make Mortgage Payment Due On January 1 In December
This is a quick follow-up to my email to subscribers yesterday. I said I wasn't sure whether making the mortgage payment due on January 1 in December would save taxes when you will switch from ...
High Income In Blue States Under New Tax Law
Now that the new tax law is official, it's time to update this post. One of the big changes on the individual side is the $10,000 cap on the state and local income tax and property tax deductions. ...
ACA Self-Employed Health Insurance In H&R Block Software
Last time when I looked at how different tax software handled the circular calculation of the ACA tax credit and theself-employed health insurance tax deduction, H&R Block software failed at the ...