Taxes

Surgent’s Essential Depreciation and Expensing Update (SSTX237/25)

By |2024-08-22T22:51:37-04:00June 22nd, 2024||

The "permanent" changes from the TCJA may stand like a lion in the pathway of change, but Washington has its own definition of permanent. Inflation adjustments and technical corrections are included within this deep analysis of the complex maze of ru...

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Surgent’s Reducing a Business Owner Client’s Exposure to Social Security and Self-Employment Taxes (SSTX207/25)

By |2024-08-22T19:38:47-04:00June 22nd, 2024||

Many business owner clients wish to minimize their Social Security and self-employment tax liabilities. This course provides tax practitioners with the background to understand what kinds of income constitute self-employment income and earned income....

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Surgent’s Max the Tax: Schedule C (SSTX182/25)

By |2024-08-23T00:59:09-04:00June 22nd, 2024||

In this scavenger hunt game, you're a tax associate at Surging CPAs, LLC. It's the busy time of year, and you arrive at work to find an urgent assignment in your inbox from your senior manager, Caroline. Another colleague suddenly quit, and Caroline ...

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Surgent’s Max the Tax: Common 1040 Items (SSTX180/25)

By |2024-08-23T00:57:11-04:00June 22nd, 2024||

During this interactive simulation, you will act as an IRS tax agent tasked with analyzing a tax return with various items flagged for review. After you interview the taxpayers, you must make any necessary changes to the return based on the latest ta...

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Surgent’s A Complete Tax Guide to Exit Planning (SSTX143/25)

By |2024-08-22T19:21:59-04:00June 22nd, 2024||

When exit planning, it is important to weigh various issues, including tax implications, to achieve an effective management and/or ownership change. Many envision tax-free reorganizations being the most preferable structure to avoid capital gains tax...

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Surgent’s Employee Stock Options: What Financial Professionals Should Know When Advising Their Clients (SSOT143/25)

By |2024-08-22T18:58:25-04:00June 22nd, 2024||

Companies often offer stock options as an additional form of compensation to attract and retain the best talent. Used appropriately, stock options can generate significant wealth. Yet many employees are unfamiliar with how stock options work and why...

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Surgent’s Real Estate Taxation: Critical Considerations (SSTX205/25)

By |2024-08-22T19:02:35-04:00June 21st, 2024||

This course is a 'deep dive' into many aspects involving the taxation of real estate for the mid-level practitioner moving into this complex area. You will deepen your understanding of the complex considerations and strategies that individuals must n...

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Surgent’s Establishing State Residency and Saving Your Clients Money (SSTX134/25)

By |2024-08-23T00:38:09-04:00June 21st, 2024||

Many of our clients are moving to one of the seven states with no personal income tax, particularly Florida and Texas. Others may maintain multiple homes with an eye toward eventually establishing residency in a state with no income tax. This course ...

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Surgent’s Individual Income Tax Fundamentals (SSTX157/25)

By |2024-08-22T19:48:16-04:00June 21st, 2024||

This course will take new and administrative staff from the most basic concepts to a full understanding of individual tax return preparation - just in time for the crunch of busy season! Updated for impacts of recent legislation, including the SECUR...

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Surgent’s Multistate Income Tax Issues (SSTX176/25)

By |2024-08-22T20:58:22-04:00June 21st, 2024||

With the largest overhaul of the federal income tax code in 30 years and the repeal of the physical presence nexus standards for sales tax in the Wayfair case, the states are working fast and furious to overhaul their tax laws. As some states scrambl...

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Surgent’s Buying and Selling a Business: Tax and Structuring Overview (SSTX217/25)

By |2024-08-22T21:02:12-04:00June 21st, 2024||

One of the major transactions CPA clients are faced with is the purchase or disposition of a business. To help tax professionals advise those clients, this course offers a comprehensive analysis of the business and tax aspects of buying and selling a...

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Surgent’s Top Ten Questions from Partnership Clients Regarding the Section 754 Election (SSTX232/25)

By |2024-08-22T21:09:14-04:00June 21st, 2024||

This program is an in-depth analysis of the Section 754 election and the two adjustments associated with the election under Section 743(b) and Section 734(b). The 754 election is a highly technical provision that provides great tax benefits to the ow...

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Surgent’s Comparing and Contrasting Retirement Plans for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses (SSTX127/25)

By |2024-08-22T19:53:18-04:00June 21st, 2024||

Clients often ask their tax advisors whether they have the "best" pension plan and whether they are using it to its maximum advantage. This program explains how various pension plans work and analyzes why a small or medium-sized business owner would choose one plan over another.

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Surgent’s Taking Advantage of Like-Kind Exchanges (SSTX172/25)

By |2024-08-23T00:38:14-04:00June 21st, 2024||

When real property is sold for a gain, we always try to find ways to defer recognizing income so that it won't be necessary to send a check to Uncle Sam. There is a provision within the Internal Revenue Code that allows the taxpayer to defer recognit...

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Surgent’s The Top Five Tax Issues in Dealing with LLCs and Partnerships (SSTX174/25)

By |2024-08-22T19:53:13-04:00June 21st, 2024||

Partnerships and LLCs involve unique problems that require careful attention. This course covers selected critical tax issues that practitioners need to know when working with partnerships and limited liability companies, with a focus on planning opportunities and pitfalls.

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Surgent’s Taking Advantage of Installment Sales (SSTX160/25)

By |2024-08-22T19:53:11-04:00June 21st, 2024||

When real property is sold for a gain, we always try to find ways to defer recognizing income so that it won't be necessary to send a check to Uncle Sam. There is a provision within the Internal Revenue Code that allows the taxpayer to defer recognit...

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Surgent’s Form 1120-S Boot Camp: Step-by-Step Preparation With Completed Forms (SSTX230/25)

By |2024-08-22T22:04:29-04:00June 21st, 2024||

The objective of this course is to train new, rusty, or returning-to-practice staff to prepare complicated federal subchapter S corporation tax returns. The course utilizes a chapter-by-chapter, hands-on approach. As more details are discussed in eac...

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Surgent’s Hot IRS Tax Examination Issues for Individuals and Businesses (SSTX142/25)

By |2024-08-22T19:24:12-04:00June 21st, 2024||

Although the IRS continues to lose its audit workforce due to budget cuts, it continues to examine specific individuals and small business taxpayers. Now, more than ever, Accounting and Financial Professionals need clients to understand the need for ...

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Surgent’s Taking Advantage of Installment Sales and Like-Kind Exchanges (SSTX163/25)

By |2024-08-22T23:57:14-04:00June 21st, 2024||

When real property is sold for a gain, we always try to find ways to defer recognizing income so it won't be necessary to send a check to Uncle Sam. There are two provisions within the Internal Revenue Code that allow the taxpayer to defer recognitio...

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Surgent’s Form 1065 Boot Camp: Step-by-Step Preparation with Completed Forms (SSTX103/25)

By |2024-08-22T21:15:30-04:00June 21st, 2024||

The objective of this course is to train new, rusty, or returning-to-practice staff with a hands-on, pencil-pushing gold standard for preparing Form 1065. Common to advanced issues of partnerships are explored in the current course that can double as...

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