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Save Taxes While Controlling Employee Health Costs

If rising health care costs have sent your company searching for ways to reduce expenses, you should know there are alternatives to standard medical insurance plans. Your choices are not limited to either paying the higher costs yourself or transferring the burden to your employees. Tax-advantaged strategies are available which can mitigate the effect of rising...

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How the New Tax Law Affects Rental Real Estate Owners

Do you own residential or commercial rental real estate? The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) brings several important changes that owners of rental properties should understand. In general, rental property owners will enjoy lower ordinary income tax rates and other favorable changes to the tax brackets for 2018 through 2025. In addition, the new tax law...

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GT Partners + Managers Growing Together

GT Partners and Managers growing (fill in the blank) together! Fill in the blank with: Professionally Personally Successfully Our firm Mature Old However you fill in the blank, it has been a shining example of people staying together for a common cause…to serve our clients and their particular industries, area of business. It is hard...

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Visit From The Grinch!

Which “Grinch” visited our coop clients this year? The one whose heart grows 3 times? Or the one who stole all the presents? Well, the answer is it will vary! The effects of the new tax law changes are still being contemplated (and debated) and you are likely getting inundated with information from many sources....

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Accounting Standards Update: Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory

In July 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standard Update ASU 2015-11 – Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory as part of the Board’s Simplification Initiative. Under previous guidance, an entity subsequently measures inventory at the lower of cost or market; market being defined as replacement cost. Under ASU 2015-11, inventory is measured...

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