Dallas, Texas, January 2018 – The “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (the “Act”) makes significant changes to the U.S. regime for the taxation of international business structures and cross-border transactions.   Key aspects of these changes are: Deemed repatriation of off-shore earnings. S. shareholders owning at least 10% of a foreign subsidiary must include in income for […]

Dallas, Texas, January 2018 – The Howard, LLP team congratulates Kelly Fisher and Julia Koonsman who graduated from the 2017-2018 Class of the Dallas CPA Society Leadership Development Academy (LDA) on January 11, 2018. The Dallas CPA Society’s Leadership Development Academy was created to assist emerging leaders in the accounting and financial services industries in developing the skills […]

Dallas, Texas, January 2018– With the passage of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”, clients are asking how these changes will impact them personally. Below are a few of the items we believe could impact you. The majority of the provisions take effect for tax years starting after December 31, 2017. Standard deduction: Increased from $13,000 […]

Dallas, Texas, January 2018– With the passage of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”, we now have major tax changes for the first since the Bush era tax cuts in 2003.  Several provisions will help both large and small businesses.  The largest benefit results in a new deduction for Qualified Business Income (QBI). For years, a […]