The 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax is Still Here
One little-mentioned provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the 3.8% net investment income tax (NIIT) that went into effect during Barack Obama’s administration. Various commentators refer to it as the “Obamacare surtax,” the “health care surtax,” or the “Medicare tax”; but whatever one chooses to call it, it is still going […]
How Old is Your Durable Power of Attorney?
When you created and signed your General Durable Power of Attorney, you did it to make sure that a person chosen by you could take care of financial and personal matters for you if you were to become incapacitated. However, as this 2016 New York Times article explains, when an Agent takes a power of […]