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Here you'll find regular tips to help with your business and personal finances, as well as strategies to grow and more efficiently run your organization. 

Table of Content

1. Tax Implications Of The Sharing Economy
2. Timing Strategies Could Become More Powerful In 2017, Depending On What Happens With Tax Reform
3. Tax Break Helps Storm Survivors
4. Accelerate Your Retirement Savings With A Cash Balance Plan
5. Which Tax-advantage Health Account Should Be Part Of Your Benefits Package?
6. How Charitable Giving Could Help Save On Your 2017 Tax Return
7. Thorough Due Diligence Can Protect Your Acquisition From Fraud
8. What's New at Machen McChesney?

Tax Implications Of The Sharing Economy

Timing Strategies Could Become More Powerful In 2017, Depending On What Happens With Tax Reform

Projecting your business income and expenses for this year and next can allow you to time when you recognize income and incur deductible expenses to your tax advantage. Typically, it’s better to defer tax. This might end up being especially true this year, if tax reform legislation is signed into law. Continue reading.

Tax Break Helps Storm Survivors

How to claim the casualty loss deduction after a disaster. Continue reading.

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Accelerate Your Retirement Savings With A Cash Balance Plan

Business owners may not be able to set aside as much as they’d like in tax-advantaged retirement plans. Typically, they’re older and more highly compensated than their employees, but restrictions on contributions to 401(k) and profit-sharing plans can hamper retirement-planning efforts. One solution may be a cash balance plan. Continue reading.

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Which Tax-advantaged Health Account Should Be Part Of Your Benefits Package? 

On October 12, an executive order was signed that, among other things, seeks to expand Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs). HRAs are just one type of tax-advantaged account you can provide your employees to help fund their health care expenses. Also available are Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs). Which one should you include in your benefits package? Here’s a look at the similarities and differences: Continue reading.

How Charitable Giving Could Help Save On Your 2017 Tax Return

How to boost the impact of charitable gifts and save more on taxes. Continue reading.

Thorough Due Diligence Can Protect Your Acquisition From Fraud

In today’s rough-and-tumble world of mergers and acquisitions (M&As), buyers need to get to know business sellers and their executives, test their representations about asset condition and financial performance, and screen for common fraud schemes. Here’s why. Continue reading.

What's New at Machen McChesney?

Sponsorships, new hires, announcements

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