http://www.marconews.com/news/business/taxsecrets/?partner=RSSmarconews.com Stories: Tax Secrets of the Wealthyen-usbusiness/taxsecretshttp://www.marconews.com/news/2011/mar/29/marco-residents-concerned-over-taxes-water-sewer-r/?partner=RSSTaxes, water and sewer rates, police staffing and illegal aliens are the four topics of most concern to Marco Island residents, according to the results of a long-range planning survey conducted by city leaders in November. However, there is a slight discrepancy among the level of concern and actual research findings, which were completed by city and Collier County staff members. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:26:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-271108-734225business/businessCANDACE ROTOLOMarco, FLMarco residents concerned over taxes, water sewer ratesmarconews.commarco-residents-concerned-over-taxes-water-sewer-rurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-271108-734225Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2010/feb/19/taxes-227-ways-beat-em/?partner=RSSThere are three main ways the federal tax law picks your pocket and becomes your legal partner... Outrageous! The purpose of this article is to show you how to fight back. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:19:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-229919-733822business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTaxes: 227 ways to beat ‘em marconews.comtaxes-227-ways-beat-emurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-229919-733822Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/aug/18/tax-secrets-wealthy-who-should-own-business-real-e/?partner=RSSThe first commandment of my someday-I-will-write-it bible of taxation would be “Thou shalt not put real estate into a corporation.” We see it at least a dozen times year: When readers of this column ask us to do a tax consultation (usually for transfer/succession/estate planning), we find the business real estate in a separate C corporation (sometimes an S corporation) and leased to the operating corporation. Often, the real estate is owned by the operating corporation. Wrong! All are wrong. Actually a tax disaster waiting to happen. Why? wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:48:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-208348-733637business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: Who should own business real estate?marconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-who-should-own-business-real-eurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-208348-733637Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/aug/11/tax-secrets-wealthy-solve-your-business-succession/?partner=RSSOwn a family business? Want to transfer it to your kids? Then you’ll love this article. It’s about an old IRS letter ruling that is one of my favorites. It might be labeled “the lazy man’s way to plan your business transfer.” The ruling shows you how to take advantage of some favorable tax law while avoiding pitfalls. Good stuff! There is a bit of a problem to using the technique: You see, you must drop dead before your family can enjoy the benefits of Letter Ruling 9116031. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:21:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-207861-733630business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: Solve your business succession problemmarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-solve-your-business-successionurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-207861-733630Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/aug/04/tax-secrets-wealthy-business-succession/?partner=RSSMany of the columns I write and the seminars I give deal with family business succession planning. Can you guess the most common succession situation and related problems? Getting the business from dad and/or mom to one or more of their kids. Yes, that’s where the action is. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:22:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-207392-733623business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: Business successionmarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-business-successionurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-207392-733623Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/jul/28/tax-secrets-wealthy-captive-audience-are-you-among/?partner=RSSThe Internal Revenue Code is not a friendly creature. It is designed to “taketh” your money; “giveth” is not in its vocabulary. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:30:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-206918-733616business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: Captive audience: Are you among them?marconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-captive-audience-are-you-amongurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-206918-733616Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/jul/14/tax-secrets-wealthy-tale-two-clients/?partner=RSSSuccession planning has always been and still is a hot topic. Let’s start with a classical fact pattern and the tragic tax results that are sure to follow for the uninformed. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:54:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-205896-733602business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: A tale of two clientsmarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-tale-two-clientsurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-205896-733602Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/jun/30/tax-secrets-wealthy-roth-ira-sure-tax-winner-tax-f/?partner=RSSEvery tax newsletter, journal, and other publication (I read a bunch of them in my never-ending struggle to stay current on the tax law) has had one or more articles on the virtues of Roth IRAs in the past three months. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:20:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-204816-733588business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: Roth IRA a sure tax winner; tax-free E/R plan even bettermarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-roth-ira-sure-tax-winner-tax-furn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-204816-733588Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/jun/23/tax-secrets-wealthy-big-breakthrough---reader-insu/?partner=RSSAbout six months ago this tax column ran a long two-part article titled: “Slash premium costs, yet increase life insurance benefits. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-204214-733581business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: A big breakthrough - Reader-insurance-analysis test yields hard to believe positive resultsmarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-big-breakthrough---reader-insuurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-204214-733581Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/jun/16/tax-secrets-wealthy-succession-planning/?partner=RSSDo you own all or part of a closely-held business? Like it or not, some day you’ll have to value that business. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:49:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-203569-733574business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: Succession planningmarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-succession-planningurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-203569-733574Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/jun/02/tax-secrets-wealthy-how-escape-your-qualified-plan/?partner=RSSDo you have a significant amount of money ($300,000 or more) in one or more qualified plans? For example, an IRA, profit-sharing plan, 401(k), etc. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:55:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-202398-733560business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: How to escape from your qualified plan tax trapmarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-how-escape-your-qualified-planurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-202398-733560Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/may/26/tax-secrets-wealthy-tax-game/?partner=RSSRecently, I read an article titled, “What makes for success?” by Kemmons Wilson, the founder of Holiday Inn. He said, “It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way — and hardly the best way — to keep score.” wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 27 May 2009 01:30:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-201839-733553business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: The Tax Game marconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-tax-gameurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-201839-733553Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/may/12/tax-secrets-wealthy-thank-you-tax-court-finally-un/?partner=RSSFirst, a simple question: How much would you pay for property worth $100,000, if you must spend $25,000 (to fix it: commissions, special taxes or whatever) prior to collecting your $100,000? ... Certainly not more than $75,000 … Or less, if you wanted to make a profit. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 13 May 2009 01:54:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-200797-733539business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: Thank you tax court for finally understandingmarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-thank-you-tax-court-finally-unurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-200797-733539Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/may/05/tax-secrets-wealthy-mommy-can-people-die-diabetes/?partner=RSSUnfortunately, the answer is ‘yes.’ The quote that is the title of this article is how a letter sent to me started. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 06 May 2009 01:53:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-200239-733532business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: ‘Mommy, can people die from diabetes?’ marconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-mommy-can-people-die-diabetesurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-200239-733532Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/apr/28/tax-secrets-wealthy-how-irs-clipped-yankee-clipper/?partner=RSSJoe DiMaggio, unquestionably one of the great baseball legends of all time, now plays in the big ballpark in the sky. He knew how to use his arm and his glove, but mostly his bat, to win countless ballgames. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:03:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-199629-733525business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: How the IRS clipped the Yankee clippermarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-how-irs-clipped-yankee-clipperurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-199629-733525Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/apr/21/tax-secrets-wealthy-thinking-making-your-kid-stock/?partner=RSSAre you thinking of transferring stock to your kids, or does one or more of your kids already owns stock in your closely held business? wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:49:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-199002-733518business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: Thinking of making your kid a stockholder?marconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-thinking-making-your-kid-stockurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-199002-733518Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/apr/16/tax-secrets-wealthy-winning-tax-game-without-beati/?partner=RSSRecently, I read an article titled, “What Makes For Success?” by Kemmons Wilson, the founder of Holiday Inn. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:41:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-198626-733513business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: Winning the tax game without beating up the IRSmarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-winning-tax-game-without-beatiurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-198626-733513Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/mar/24/tax-secrets-wealthy-how-turn-tax-trap-tax-victory/?partner=RSSThere are many types of qualified plans: Pension, profit-sharing, 401(k) and IRAs are the most popular. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:47:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-196558-733490business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: How to turn a tax trap into a tax victorymarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-how-turn-tax-trap-tax-victoryurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-196558-733490Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/mar/17/tax-secrets-wealthy-thank-you-tax-court/?partner=RSSFirst, a simple question: How much would you pay for property worth $100,000, if you must spend $25,000 (to fix it, commissions, special taxes or whatever) prior to collecting your $100,000? wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:45:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-195914-733483business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: Thank you, tax courtmarconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-thank-you-tax-courturn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-195914-733483Change0Usablehttp://www.marconews.com/news/2009/mar/10/tax-secrets-wealthy-mommy-can-people-die-diabetes/?partner=RSSUnfortunately, the answer is ‘yes.’ The quote that is the title of this article is how a letter sent to me started. The rest of the letter really tugged hard at your heart and had the single goal of getting you to send a donation to a well-known diabetes charitable foundation. I sent a check. wealthy@blackmankallick.com (IRV BLACKMAN)Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:05:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-195308-733476business/businessIRV BLACKMANMarco, FLTax Secrets of the Wealthy: ‘Mommy, can people die from diabetes?’marconews.comtax-secrets-wealthy-mommy-can-people-die-diabetesurn:publicid:www.marconews.com:news-Story-195308-733476Change0Usable