🏠 Home Office
Compare the actual-expense method to the simplified $5/sq ft floor and use the larger.
📅 Augusta Rule (§280A(g))
Rent your home to your business up to 14 days a year — tax-free to you, deductible to the business.
🏢 Cost Segregation
Estimate the first-year depreciation a cost-seg study could pull forward on a building you own.
👥 Spouse on Payroll
See the net benefit of putting a non-working spouse on payroll — the retirement deduction it unlocks minus the payroll tax.
👶 Hiring Your Children
Shift income to your kids' 0% bracket (net of payroll tax), with the documentation checklist that makes it audit-proof.
🚗 Business Vehicle
Estimate the first-year write-off — and see why the 6,000-lb GVWR line changes everything.
📊 Retirement Plan Comparison
Solo 401(k) vs SEP-IRA vs Cash Balance — how much each lets you contribute and deduct at your income and age.
🏖️ Short-Term Rental Loophole
Why high earners buy an STR: the first-year cost-seg loss that can offset your W-2 / active income — with the two eligibility tests stated clearly.
🏛️ Sole Prop vs. S-Corp
Slide your profit and salary to see the self-employment-tax savings of electing S-corp — with the QBI tradeoff, running costs, and the crossover point where it starts to pay off.
🎯 QBI Salary Optimizer
For S-corp owners above the income threshold: find the W-2 salary that maximizes your 20% QBI deduction (§199A) once payroll tax and the 50%-of-wages cap are both in play.
⚖️ SSTB Phase-Out
If you're in a specified-service field (law, medicine, consulting, finance), see where your income sits in the QBI phase-out — and how much lowering taxable income wins back before it hits $0.
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