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Machen McChesney returns value to clients through our monthly e-newsletter, The Value Report, October 2017 edition.

| Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. At Machen McChesney we are committed to Returning Value to you through our monthly e-newsletter, The Value Report. 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 Tax Implications Of The Sharing Economy Timing Strategies Could Become More Powerful In 2017, Depending On What Happens With Tax Reform Tax Break Helps Storm Survivors Accelerate Your Retirement Savings With A Cash Balance Plan Which Tax-advantage Health Account Should Be Part Of Your Benefits Package? How Charitable Giving Could Help Save On Your 2017 Tax Return Thorough Due Diligence Can Protect Your Acquisition From Fraud What's New at Machen McChesney? Tax Implications Of The Sharing Economy Do you provide car rides through a mobile app, rent out your spare room using an online platform or repair computers for local businesses on demand? If so, you may be considered part of the "sharing economy" also know as the Gig or on-demand economy. Continue reading. 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. 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. 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 Continue reading. We hope you found value in The Value Report you've received this month. We look forward to finding, even more, ways to Return Value to you in the future.  Please feel free to visit our website or visit our blog at any time during the month to interact with additional valuable resources and helpful information.   If you have any questions on the topics above, please feel free to send us a message.   Thanks, Machen McChesney  Share our insights with your connections:      Auburn-Opelika: 1820 East University Drive \| Auburn AL 36830 Montgomery: 1761 Taliaferro Trail \| Montgomery AL 36117 www.machenmcchesney.com You received this email because you are subscribed to Monthly E-Newsletters from Machen McChesney. Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive.  Unsubscribe from all future emails  |
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