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Fowler EA brings you tax Talk for you right here
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As an enrolled agent and a national leader in tax
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resolution as well as Trucker bookkeeping and tax planning.
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With over thirty years of experience.
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Barry will break down taxes, book keeping, tax planning, and
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So let's have some tax Talk for you with your hosts.
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Barry G.
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Foul Hey, welcome to tax Talk for you.
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there you know here today Veterans Day. You know, we
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take a few moments to pause honor the brave men
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and women who have put their.
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Lives on the line to defend.
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Our freedoms, the freedoms we cherish here in the United States.
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You know, it's not just a holiday.
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You know, it's a reminder of the sacrifices that these
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brave men and women are veterans put on them, put
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themselves out there for us to allow us to live
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our everyday lives and the freedoms that we have. It's
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about remembering those soldiers who left home facing the unknown,
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miss their families and their family gatherings, maybe watch their
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children's birthdays and birthday parties, and you know, face unguidly
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challenges out there just for the love of our country,
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and so we should take the time to remember them
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and give thanks. We have a lot of good friends
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both at our truckers and veterans personal friends of mine
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who sacrifice their family to be out there and to
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defend our freedoms. Michael a dear friend of ours. You know,
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he's a veteran. He put his life out there. He
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came back with some injuries, and you know we appreciate
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we help him wherever we can and take care of
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and honor his sacrifice and his services, and you know
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many others that we have known throughout the years and
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been friends with over the years that have put their
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lives out of hold just to make this sacrifice for
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us and our country. So you know, again, if you
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see a veteran out there, you know, tell them thank you.
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And it doesn't have to be here on Veterans Day,
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only any day you see somebody in the military, thank
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them for their service. These are men and women who
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are stopping everything to get out there and protect years
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and my freedoms and freedoms for our children and our grandchildren.
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You know, here today we get to actually talk about
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something that you know, it kind of excites.
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Me because we're getting a new administration.
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And yes it's an old one Trump coming back, but
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the possibility of all the tax cuts. We had no
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idea where we were going to be heading after twenty
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twenty five with the tax and what was going to
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happen with the tax policy. The current administration wanted to
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get rid of the tax policy that we are living
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under currently and go back to what we had back
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in twenty seventeen.
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Because these Trump tax.
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Cuts that took effect expire at the end of twenty
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twenty five. Now we're expecting with Congress coming in both
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the House and the Senate and President Trump that the
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twenty twenty seventeen tax cuts, hopefully they will come in
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and make those permanents, so we won't live under a
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temporary tax policy, but we'll actually live under a known
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tax policy that we have currently. And so that was
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the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of twenty seventeen, and
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you know, it lowered the individual tax rates, It set
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a higher standard to duck, gave us higher child tax credits,
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It put a cap on deducting state and local taxes.
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It gave a larger lifetime.
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A state and gift tax exemption, and all those we're
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going to be slated to end. So now we're hoping
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that Conmerse will come in and do this and put
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this in and make this a permanent part of the
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tax code, not just temporary. So you know what we're
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looking at at the moment. We look at the standard deduction.
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The standard deduction is for single for twenty twenty four
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is going to be fourteen thousand, six hundred. If you're married,
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finally jointly, it's twenty nine thousand, two hundred, and if
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you're head of household, it's twenty one thousand, nine hundred.
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Now you can choose to deduct the standard deduction or
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the itemized.
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The reason you choose itemized is.
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You're going to be able to get over the standard
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amount and the standard deduction. So if you're single and
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with and you bought a house recently in the higher
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interest rates and everything, you might between your interest deduction,
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your state in local tax deduction, and charitable deductions, you
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just might get over that standard deduction of fourteen thousand,
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six hundred. And it's the same with Mary finally, joint,
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you know, if you're going to itemize, you've got to
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get over that. So you know, if you're very charitable
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and you give a lot of money to charity, that
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will be a.
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Big hurdle for you to.
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Get over and get that as an itemized deductions. But
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combined with your mortgage interest in properly property taxes and
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stayed in local taxes, you might get over that twenty
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nine thousand, two hundred. So you've got to take a
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look at it for your situation. And then the standard
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deduction also is going to bump you up, So if
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you're at least sixty five or blind, you can claim
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an additional standard deduction of one nine and fifty dollars
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if you're using single or at a household filing status.
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If you're both sixty five and blind, the additional deduction
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amount is doubled. So keep those things in mind because
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it gives you a little bit more of an advantage
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out there. So with those things in mind, you know,
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you've got to really sit down and look at it.
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You know, what's your filing status, how old are.
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You, what is your standard deduction versus itemized seductions? And
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every good tax preparer out there should be looking at
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this across the board for every person that they prepare taxes.
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So if you've got mortgage interest and property taxes and
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charitable contributions both cash, you know, and if you're making
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donations of non cash items, both of those count towards
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getting to the itemized deductions to get over your standard deduction.
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But you got to take a look at that now.
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To be honest, there are a lot of people that
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don't qualify because they're still under low interest rates and
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maybe they don't give very much to charity or a
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lot less. I mean, everybody's world is different, so you know,
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you've got to get over that standard deduction amount, so
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you take a look at it. It's not something that
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everybody gets out there and is able to do. Now,
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one of the other benefits of the Trump tax cuts
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was the child tax credit. So the child tax credit
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increased under the Trump tax laws, and you know, there
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were forty million families nationwide each year uses to help
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offset some of the costs for raising children. Now you
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get a two thousand dollars credit for each child that's
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under seventeen.
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The government acts as if.
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If you're seventeen or eighteen, it doesn't cost you that
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much to raise your child, so you don't get the
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child tax credit. I've never understood that. I don't know
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anybody understands that sometimes those seventeen and eighteen year olds
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costs me more than when they were, you know, thirteen,
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fourteen or fifteen. You know they started driving. Now all
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of a sudden, you've got more insurance, you've got more
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vehicle costs, and vehicle insurance isn't cheap once you get
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another driver out there. So you know, I've never understood
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why the child tax credit stops there.
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But if they are seventeen.
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Or older, you do get five hundred dollars credit for
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each one of them, and that goes for you know,
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other dependence too, So full time students nineteen through twenty
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four you'll be able to get that five hundred dollars
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credit as well. Now, we're expecting a lot of this
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to stay in place with the new Congress out there.
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You know, we're trying to find, you know, what's going to.
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Change based on you know, how Trump ran for reelection
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and what his promises are, and you know, as you're
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sitting down and looking at this, how it's going to
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affect you and your family in twenty twenty five and beyond.
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And hopefully some of the changes that Trump was looking
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at doing is going to come into play in twenty
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twenty four with Congress being they'll make it retroactive, but
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at the very least it's going to be in twenty
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twenty five. We see a lot of changes coming up
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for there. One of the other big advantages and we're
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going to talk about this a little bit and how
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this works in your favor as an American citizen and
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for families out there, is taking advantage of the lifetime
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of state and gift tax exemption. Also why you can
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and what Trump did under the twenty seventeen Trump tax
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laws that helped you or your family when you're passing
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in a state along and we will talk about that
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right after this quick break.
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We have only scratched the surface of place show. Please stays.
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Barrygfowler will be right back with tax talk for you.
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Let's get back to tax stock for you with more
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tax stock once again, here's your host, Barrygfower.
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Hey, welcome back. You know when I talk at truck
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to Success. It's a semin are put on by Owner
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Operator Independent Drivers Association, you know, talking to truckers and
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we get into the nitty gritty of taxes and how
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to save money on taxes. But we always talk about
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what's coming up in tax laws, and we talk about
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you know, politicians, we talk about celebrities, we talk about
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people that are rich, and.
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And we talk about you know, tax planning. One of
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the things that I really hit home.
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For is, you know, every politician I've ever known has
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never found a tax that they didn't like and finding
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ways to tax people. Now, you know, conservatives are more
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of hey, lower the tax rates is going to generate
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more economic boom and more to the economy. But you know,
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they still got to bring in the tax money to
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pay for the things that the government is supposed to
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do for us, and even pay for the things the
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government shouldn't be doing for us. But that's that's another
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topic for later in this that we'll get on my
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soapbox and be able to explain my philosophy and my thoughts.
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But give tax and a state tax, you know, this
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is taxing money that's already been taxed maybe once, maybe twice,
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maybe three times, and maybe even more. And so you know,
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when we deal with family businesses and passing the businesses
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on from one family member to another, or passing a
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family ranches.
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Or farms or.
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Just the estate for most families, if you're going to
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tax it, and you're going to tax close to you know,
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forty fifty. And then depending on whether you're in a state,
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you know, in what state you're in, you may get
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a state tax as well. But passing on family land
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even becomes very very expensive. But you know, luckily, under
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the Trump tax cuts in twenty seventeen, you're able to
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pass on about twelve thousand, nine hundred dollars nine hundred
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twelve million, nine hundred thousand dollars of state.
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Money to your family. So you can pass that down.
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Now, not everybody's going to hit it, but sometimes you
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do hit that just because the value of your land
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or the value of your business might get you to there.
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One thing that you can do if you have that
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kind of money, or if you're trying to maybe help
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your your child or grandchild or even great grandchild out,
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you do have some annual gift limits, and for twenty
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twenty four it's eighteen thousand dollars that you can give
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to a family member individual that's going to go to
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them and they're not have to file a gift tax
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return for But if you're married, then it can go