Re: Buying vs renting

"Stephen D. Williams" <[email protected]>
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The rules around the qualified business income deduction are cometragically, stupidly complex:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2017/12/26/tax-geek-tuesday-making-sense-of-the-new-20-qualified-business-income-deduction/#50e1053644fd

> On December 22nd, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, finalizing a once-in-a-generation overhaul of the 
> existing Code and leaving the once-burdensome tax law so simple, we'll all be preparing our returns on postcards come the spring 
> of 2019.
>
> HAHAHAHAHAHA
>
> /wipes tear from cheek
>
> Simple. That's rich. I'll make a deal with you: how about we spend some time diving into/just one/ aspect of the bill -- the new 
> deduction bestowed upon owners of sole proprietorships, S corporations, and partnerships -- and then you decide for yourself just 
> how/simple/this all will be?
>


sdw

On 2/28/18 3:16 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> Yes.
>
> And federal as well. I'm not even itemizing will make sense.
>
> On Feb 28, 2018 3:07 PM, "Gregory Alan Bolcer" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I was just lamenting that, at least in California, for the first time I
>> have no idea what my taxes are going to be like for 2018. California-world
>> problems, ya know?
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On 2/28/2018 2:06 PM, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
>>
>>> I thought I had friends here who knew all the things; I expect that they
>>> could spout off in depth at a moment's notice about anything!  I'm crushed.
>>>
>>> Each law has to have a way of being applied to each type of entity.  I'll
>>> have to research it soon.  I suspect a lot of what actually goes on isn't
>>> clearly out there.  So far, this seems like it is an area where the useful
>>> details are between high-end accounts, attorneys, wealthy clients, and IRS
>>> agents who have no interest in sharing everything that is acceptable,
>>> possible, or beneficial.  A few well-known public cases that mention
>>> details I'd never heard of or seen reinforce that.
>>>

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