Tax Compliance (Preparation/Planning)

• Plan and prepare your individual federal and state tax returns on a married-filing-joint tax return, including your spouse.
• Assessment of trader tax status (TTS): If you qualify for TTS for any part of the year, we can add a Schedule C to deduct your trading business expenses, startup costs, and home-office expenses above the line from gross income. TTS does not require an election, whereas Section 475 MTM does.
• In a tax return footnote, we explain trader tax law, how you qualify for TTS, tax elections like Sections 475 MTM, the tax treatment on financial products, and more. Avoiding IRS questions is vital.
• If you traded securities, there is complicated accounting for wash sale loss adjustments or Section 475 MTM accounting, including a Section 481(a) adjustment for the first year of the election. Consider our trade accounting service in conjunction with our tax compliance service.
• A timely-filed Section 475 MTM election statement and Form 3115 (Change of Accounting Method) perfect the Section 475 election. (Preparing Form 3115 costs extra).
• Tax treatment for traders can be confusing, and we get it right, taking advantage of losses where possible and Section 1256 60/40 capital gains rates. Traders can depart from broker 1099-Bs where entitled, and we explain it in the tax return footnotes.
• The home-office deduction is one of the most significant deductions for traders, and a trader needs to make special moves on the tax return to unlock the full deduction.
• The 20% deduction on qualified business income: QBI includes 475 income net of TTS expenses; it excludes capital gains.
• If you have a pass-through trading entity, we maximize tax benefits between the individual and entity tax returns, including unreimbursed partnership expenses (UPE) and accountable plan reimbursements with S-Corps. We also focus on employee benefits, including health insurance and retirement plans with S-Corps. 
• Over twenty states have enacted SALT cap workaround strategies using partnerships and S-Corps.
• Proprietary traders: If your prop trading firm issued a Form 1099-Misc for Non-Employee Compensation, we add a Schedule C to report that revenue and deduct trading expenses, including a home office, to reduce net income, income tax, and self-employment taxes. You can maximize a retirement plan and health insurance deduction with self-employment income. If your prop trading firm issued a Schedule K-1, we would focus on deducting trading expenses as UPE on Schedule E.

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Thank you for trusting our firm GNM to help you. 

Sincerely,
Darren L. Neuschwander, CPA
Adam W. Manning, CPA
Members, Green, Neuschwander & Manning, LLC