Overview and Analysis of the New Tax Law: Part 1 – Focus on Individual Taxation
Overview
The passage of OBBBA represents the most consequential tax law since The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2017. It is now up to accounting and finance practitioners to digest this new legislation so they can adequately advise their clients regarding its effect. This course includes detailed coverage of all the individual tax provisions contained in OBBBA. Our experts have broken down this voluminous legislation and distilled its presentation into two parts, each offering four CPE credits. These courses are independent of each other and do not need to be taken in order. For coverage of all business tax provisions, please see Overview and Analysis of the New Tax Law: Part 2 – Focus on Business Taxation (NEW2).
Surgent is providing first-to-market coverage of the legislation in a comprehensive but easily digestible manner. We will, of course, bring our customers future clarifications and corrections emanating from the legislation. Clients will be immediately asking about these enactments, and a real-time understanding of them will be critical to properly provide advice.
Highlights
- Treatment of state and local taxes (SALT)
- Taxation of overtime pay
- Treatment of income from tips
- New deduction for senior citizens
- Marginal tax rates, personal exemptions, itemized deductions, Child Tax Credit, alternative minimum tax, casualty losses, and other return items
- Moving expense exclusion
- Dependent care assistance program and child and dependent care tax credit
- Home mortgage interest deduction
- Deduction for new vehicle loan interest
- Non-itemizer tax deductions
- Trump accounts/pilot program
- Estate and gift tax changes
- Energy deductions and credits
- Education: expanded use of 529 plans; student loans
- Many, many other newly enacted individual tax provisions in the far-reaching legislation affecting nearly all taxpayers and their advisors
Prerequisites
A basic rudimentary understanding of the tax rules impacting individuals
Designed For
Accounting and finance professionals who wish to be informed for their own knowledge or who will be advising clients regarding the individual tax changes brought about by the recent legislation
Objectives
- Be well informed about individual tax changes resulting from the enactment of the recent legislation
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Mike Frost
Mike Frost, CPA, of Jacksonville, Alabama, provides tax consulting, continuing education, and motivational speaking services through his company, Mike Frost Enterprises. Mike is a former shareholder of MDA Professional Group, PC, where he managed the tax department of the Albertville office. Mike has 31 years of experience in public accounting, including but not limited to: Business and individual income tax preparation and planning; mergers and acquisitions; estate, gift, and trust tax preparation; small business consulting; Medicare planning and other elder care; audit representation; and religious groups and clergy. Mike has conducted CPE engagements and seminars throughout the United States and has served as technical advisor for tax articles in The Sand Mountain Reporter, a local newspaper. Mike has been a featured presenter at the Alabama Society of CPAs Annual Meeting and the Federal Tax Clinic held annually at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Mike graduated with “high honors and distinction” from Jacksonville State University with a major in accounting, a minor in finance, and a 4.0 GPA. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants. In addition, he is a graduate of the Tax Planning and Advising for Closely Held Businesses Certificate of Educational Achievement Program sponsored by the AICPA.
Non-Member Price $249.00
Member Price $199.00