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WAYS TO REDUCE TAXABLE INCOME IN 2024:

1. Traditional 401k Contribution:
This is a tax-advantaged retirement account that allows you to contribute up to $23,000 per year of PRE-TAX money - meaning every $1 you contribute will reduce your taxable income by that very same $1. This way, you show less income, you owe less in tax - and you have more money left over to invest.

2. HSA / Health Savings Account
This account is specifically used to pay for any out-of-pocket medical expenses or charges that you incur throughout your lifetime. You can also invest within the account and potentially grow your tax savings even further - as long as you have a high deductible health plan (you must qualify for this). Contributions are tax-free, and withdrawals are tax-free on medical expenses.

3. Long Term Capital Gains Tax Rate
These tax rates are significantly lower than earned income - In fact, the federal long-term capital gains tax is only 15% if you make between $47,025-$518,000 per year as a single filer…that could lead to MASSIVE SAVINGS for anyone who makes more than $50,000. Some income brackets even pay $0 in long term capital gains!

4. Running income through an S-Corporation or LLC
This is simply a legal entity that you create to run your business through…in essence, all of your “Self-Employed” business income goes into the S-Corp, expenses come out, and then you personally take what’s left over as distribution. Distributions made by an S Corporation are not subject to Social Security or Medicare taxes, which can save you 15.3% on your money.

5. The SALT Cap Workaround
In 2017, the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act limited your deductions on State And Local Taxes. Some states have issued guidance on a “SALT Cap Workaround” to be able to deduct your state taxes in their entirety - saving you a TON of money.

6. Real Estate / Homeowner Tax Benefits:
-The Capital Gains Exclusion.
This allows you to sell your primary residence and pay no tax on the first $250,000 worth of profit if you’re single, or $500,000 worth of profit if you’re married, as long as you’ve lived in that home for at least 2 out of the last 5 years.

-The 1031 Exchange
If you own a rental property, you can indefinitely defer paying taxes when you sell a property, as long as you “exchange” it for another one within a certain time period.

-Depreciation.
According to the IRS, your property has a lifespan of 27.5 years - this means that as the home gets older, it loses value - on paper - that can be deducted from your overall profit. There’s also something called a “cost-segregation analysis” that allows you to take a substantial amount of depreciation upfront.

-Cash Out Refinance
Unfortunately, this one doesn’t make too much sense with mortgage rates as high as they are - but, in the eyes of the IRS, loans you take against assets aren’t “income,” because you technically didn’t sell - and because it’s not “technically income,” you don’t owe any tax.

-Real Estate Professional
In this case, you’d be able to use all of your real estate paper losses to offset your W2 / 1099 income, allowing you to potentially make a lot of money and owe nothing to the IRS. being a “real estate professional” is something that you’d have to be able to back up to the IRS in the event of an audit, and that includes “Spending more time doing real estate activities than all other business activities combined, and spending at least 750 hours per year in real estate.”

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