Best of Tax Planning - VIRTUAL
8.00 Credits
Member Price $300
Non-Member Price $350
Overview
Give the very best tax advice to your individual and small business clients with TaxSpeaker’s newly updated planning guide! This course is designed to guide practitioners through dozens of old and new planning concepts and equip you with tools to help clients through unusual income years, long-term guidance for small businesses and high or low-income individuals. This rare instruction allows optimal tax and retirement planning rather than mere tax compliance.
Whether you are a seasoned accountant looking for professional development or new to the tax preparation business, our instructors meet you where you are to fully benefit your clients, as well as yourself. We’ve included key updates from 2023 and 2024 Congressional and IRS changes, too!
Overall, this course comprises three sub-topics: planning ideas for the W-2 taxpayer, planning for the small business owner, and planning for everyone. Each unit includes 15-30 planning tools, checklists, and example guidance illustrating the rules and tools needed to utilize the idea presented.
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
CPAs working in accounting and audting
Objectives
What a thorough course. Designed to review old rules and explain new rules, this course covers the gamut of current and future tax planning moves for W-2 employees and retirees; estate and gift planning and business owners; good years, bad years and future years; taxpayers and heirs. Complete with pages of checklists, over 50 immediately useful ideas and deductions this course is guaranteed to provide the student with ideas, clearly defined compliance guidelines, written clear examples, and practitioner oriented implementation steps.from each regulatory organization and be able to apply them when preparing financial statements. Designed for accountants in public practices and industries, we’ve taken care to build material around the most recent auditing and accounting pronouncements. It’s no wonder practitioners come back to this critical course year after year to prepare for a smooth year’s practice!
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Terry Bakker, TaxSpeaker
Terry O’Leary Bakker CPA, EA, LTC 67985-C is the owner of O’Leary’s Tax Service, Ltd. in downtown Vancouver, Washington, across the river from Portland, Oregon. Terry graduated with her BS in Business Administration: Accounting from Portland State University in 1988 and has worked in tax ever since. Terry is an Enrolled Agent and a CPA licensed in Washington and Oregon. In addition to running an active tax practice serving the needs of individuals and small business, Terry has a commitment to the profession. She is a Past President of the Oregon Association of Independent Accountants, as well as holding other positions, including head of the Education Committee. As part of her commitment, she teaches the Enrolled Agents Preparation course for her Association and has spoken for all of the tax preparation associations in Oregon.
Non-Member Price $350
Member Price $300