Farm Tax Network Email Updates for CPAs
Are you a tax advisor looking for clear, convenient information to better serve your agribusiness ("ag") clients? LarsonAllen’s Farm Tax Network
® (or FTN) is an email service for CPAs that provides farm tax guidance from our ag professionals—insights not available from the major subscription services.
Your challenges
- Staying abreast of farm tax developments
- Identifying new IRS controversies for farmers and ranchers
- Recognizing new tax planning opportunities for farm and ranch clients
Our farm tax email updates
With a subscription to Farm Tax Network, you can expect strategic responses to new developments, including elections, statements, and sample forms.
Read testimonials from a few of our 400+ subscribers.
While we don’t know what the future holds in terms of tax laws, regulations, court cases, and IRS interpretations, past topics have included:
- Converting accrual method farmers to the cash method
- Limitations on deductibility of farm losses for taxpayers receiving subsidies
- Husband-wife qualified joint ventures
- Medical reimbursement plans for spousal employees
- Opportunities with the Section 199 production deduction for farmers
- New depreciation incentives
- Spousal employment agreements
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Our approach
Andy Biebl, along with LarsonAllen’s agribusiness group, informally serves as a clearinghouse for farm tax practitioners nationwide who share information on tax topics and accounting matters affecting the ag industry. Along with providing tax and consulting services for small to large agribusinesses, our advisors are nationally recognized authors of farm taxation seminars and have been published by numerous publications and the AICPA.
Subscribe
Farm Tax Network communications are delivered when they are relevant, rather than on any particular schedule. You can expect approximately 10 per year. The cost for the email service is $189 for a 12-month period (price effective October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012).
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Archive
Subscribers have access to previous releases through a
web-based archive. Simply log in using the email address under which you are subscribed. Once in the archive, you can change your account settings to add a password if you so desire. You can also search releases by keyword.
Submit questions and topic suggestions
Subscribers are invited to submit farm tax questions to Cathy Olson at
colson@larsonallen.com. To prevent duplicative efforts, identify any research you have conducted and relevant authorities (regulations, rulings, etc.).
Note: Questions submitted should be ag tax-related and of a general nature. We are pleased to help clarify provisions in tax law or regulations, but we cannot disclose specific client facts, make substantive determinations, or give advice that would affect a client’s tax liability [per IRS Reg. 301.7216-2(d)].
For more information, contact Cathy Olson, director of education services, at colson@larsonallen.com, 507-233-5205 (phone), or 507-354-7850 (fax).
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