Tax Planning
Planning is the key to successfully and legally reducing your tax liability. We go beyond tax compliance and proactively recommend tax-saving strategies to maximize your after-tax income. We make it a priority to enhance our mastery of the current tax law, complex tax code, and new tax regulations by attending frequent tax seminars. Businesses and individuals pay the lowest amount of taxes allowable by law because we continually look for ways to minimize your taxes throughout the year, not just at the end of the year.

We recommend Tax Saving Strategies that help you:

• grow and preserve assets by keeping Uncle Sam out of your pockets;
• defer income so you can keep your money now and pay less taxes later;
• reduce taxes on your income so you keep more of what you make;
• reduce taxes on your estate so your family keeps more of what you've made;
• reduce taxes on your gifts so you can give more;
• reduce taxes on your investments so you can grow your wealth faster;
• reduce taxes on your retirement distributions so you can retire in style.

Here are just a few of the Tax Saving Strategies we employ:

Splitting income among several family members or legal entities in order to get more of the income taxed in a lower bracket;

Shifting income or expenses from one year to another in order to have them fall where they will be taxed at a lower rate;

Deferring tax liabilities through certain investment choices such as pension plans, contributions and other similar plans;

Using certain investments to produce income that is tax exempt from either federal or state, or both, taxing entities;

Finding tax deductions by structuring your money to pay for things you enjoy, such as a vacation home.

Tax Preparation
Preparing your own income tax return can be a task that leaves you with more questions than answers. According to a study released by the US Government's General Accounting Office last year, most taxpayers (77% of 71 million taxpayers) believe they benefited from using a professional tax preparer. Whether we like it or not, today's tax laws are so complicated that filing a relatively simple return can be confusing. It is just too easy to overlook deductions and credits to which you are entitled. Even if you use a computer software program there is no substitute for the assistance of an experienced tax professional.

Here is what JSB Group will do for you:

• Your tax return will be checked and rechecked by our computer software identifying potential problems the IRS may look at more closely, and review the math to limit IRS contacts.
• Your tax return can be filed electronically so you will get a refund back quicker.
• Our staff will show you how to adjust your payroll withholding to get more money back each week. Why give the IRS an interest-free loan for up to 16 months?
• We will show you potential deductions to limit your tax liability for next year. In addition, we will give you a sheet of commonly overlooked deductions to limit the following year's tax liability.