Chicago Accounting Articles

What We All Need To Know About A Recent Tax Court Decision

Dr. Keith Schumacher and his wife Rhonda are a Nebraska couple engaged in breeding and training horses. They did what many taxpayers with costly hobbies do, or would like to. They claimed their horse interest was a business, making the net losses from it deductible...

IRS Signals Crackdown On Popular Tax Avoidance Strategy

The Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) tax break allows founders to exclude up to $15M in capital gains from the sale of their businesses. The qualifications for this tax break include… 1 – The business must be a domestic C Corporation. S Corporations,...

The Idea That Became America

Our American Republic and Concept of Democracy wasn’t invented by a single person. Rather, it was synthesized by our Founding Fathers who combined ancient historical models, European Enlightenment philosophy, and over a century of colonial self-rule. The Framers...