Are you meeting the ACA’s additional Medicare tax withholding requirements? Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), beginning in 2013, taxpayers with FICA wages over $200,000 per year ($250,000 for joint filers and $125,000 for married filing separately) had to pay an additional 0.9% Medicare tax on the excess earnings.
Now that we’re in the new year, it’s time for an estate plan checkup. Why? First, various exclusion, exemption and deduction amounts are adjusted for inflation and can change from year to year, so it’s a good idea to see if they warrant any updates to your estate plan:
Many valuable tax breaks expired at the end of 2013. But Congress probably will revive at least some of them, likely retroactively to Jan. 1, 2014. The question is exactly which breaks they’ll extend and when they’ll pass the necessary legislation to do so.
Here are several that may benefit you or your business if extended…
IRA Contribution limit remains at $ 5,000 for 2012
Recently the Internal Revenue Service announced the 2012 contribution and cost of living increases regarding IRAs and 401k plans. The following can be found on the IRS’s website at www.irs.gov.