Tax Planning
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Your Tax Return Is Full of Opportunities. Are You Finding Them?
Our firm offers annual tax planning as part of our comprehensive financial planning service. While often overlooked, robust tax planning is one of the most valuable pieces of a complete financial plan, and we are excited to offer it to you.
What Is Tax Planning
Tax planning refers to our review of your tax return to identify potential planning opportunities - both now and in the future - to keep your lifetime tax liability as low as possible. This is different than tax preparation (usually done by your CPA or an online service like TurboTax), which is focused on keeping you compliant with what the government thinks you owe each year.
Who Is Tax Planning For
Everyone! Regardless of your income sources or filing status, nearly anyone can benefit from having a review of your tax return to identify relevant planning opportunities. At worst, we'll review your return and conclude you are currently maximizing every tax saving opportunity . Alternatively - and more frequently - we'll identify a handful of tax saving opportunities, both in the current year and in future years.
Taxes touch every part of your financial life. Your tax return is a financial fingerprint: it's completely unique to you, complete with valuable clues and information, all of which is buried in dozens of pages and hundreds of numbers. Understanding your return equips us to have more valuable and actionable conversations with you. Additionally, we can demystify the world of income taxes and help you understand this important piece of your financial picture.
What Kind Of Opportunites Might Be Identified
We will evaluate a number of opportunities during tax planning, including topics like
Tax Retirement Vehicles
Realizing Capital Gains
Charitable Giving Strategies
Roth IRA Conversations
We can run projections to see how potential changes (e.g., filing status, dependents, the sale of a business, stock option exercises, etc.) may impact your upcoming tax liability.
What Do We Need From You?
An electronic PDF copy of your most recent tax return.
Thats It!
One Tax Return. A Lot of Opportunity.
All we need to get started is a copy of your most recent return. From there we will identify what is possible and show you how tax planning fits into your complete financial picture.