Farm Taxes
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Be Careful With LDPs
Several wheat growing areas of the US are now seeing the option to receive Loan Deficiency Payments (LDP) in lieu of doing a loan with the Commodity Credit Corporation. These payments represent the spread between the current loan rate per bushel and the lower of the 30 day Posted County Price (PCP) or the alternative […]
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How to Pay Your Children
The Tax Court released a case earlier this week (Embroidery Express LLC TC Memo 2016-136) that provides very good advice on how to pay your children (or how not to pay them). As we have previously indicated, one of the best deductions for farmers is to pay their children under age 18 (for sole proprietors […]
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Will CCC Loans Limit My Farm Loss
The tax laws require excess farm losses to be limited if the farmer receives an applicable subsidy or has a loan from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). Applicable subsidies were direct, counter-cyclical and ACRE payments under the old 2008 Farm Bill. These payments were repealed by the 2014 Farm Bill, however, loans from the CCC […]
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Key Aspects of House Tax Reform Proposal for Farmers
The House Republicans issued a proposal last week detailing their plans for tax reform (likely to occur in 2017). The Tax Foundation has issued several articles on how this reform may affect business and individuals and I am going to recap what I see as the key aspects of their proposals. Farmers must be aware […]
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FICA Wage Base Likely to be $126,000 in 2017
The Social Security Administration’s Office of the Chief Actuary has projected, based on two out of three of its methods of forecasting, that the 2017 FICA wage base will increase from $118,500 in 2016 to $126,000 in 2017. The current wage base subjects employee’s to maximum FICA tax of $7,328.40. If the new base goes […]
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Help – I Forgot to Take Depreciation
Many times we will be reviewing a farmer’s tax records and notice that the farmer forgot to take depreciation on an asset they placed in service several years ago. If they sell the asset, the Tax Code may force them to pretend that they took depreciation on the asset and report gain even though they […]
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Have you Locked in Positive Working Capital Changes
FarmDoc Daily issued a report on how recent crop price increases have improved working capital for the 2016 crop. The report went through the working capital changes for Central Illinois Lower Productivity Farmland assuming a 50/50 corn/soybean crop mix. The working capital changes were shown for owned, cash rent and crop share farmers on a […]
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Will You Be Able To Deduct Interest?
The House Republicans will release a blueprint on June 24 regarding their plans for a tax code overhaul. This plan includes the following major changes to the tax code: Reduce the corporate tax rate to 20% (from the current 35% rate). Allow 100% business expensing of capital purchases. Eliminate the interest deduction. This blueprint will […]
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Alaska – A Chance for Education and Vacation
I did a two-day seminar last week in Western North Carolina and this was my first trip to this part of the country. My wife and I then drove over to Nashville and went through the Smokey Mountains. This is a very beautiful part of the country. When we were headed into Chattanooga to spend the […]
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Long-Term AFR’s Hit All-Time Lows
The IRS issues the Applicable Federal Rates (AFR) each month. These rates are broken down into short-term (less than three years), mid-term (between 3 and 9 years) and long-term (more than 9 years). The IRS just issued the rates for July, 2016 and the long-term rate hit an all-time low of 2.18%. The old low […]