Many businesses and individuals are unexpectedly looking for liquidity this year. One way to raise cash is to sell off real property, though finding ready buyers has gotten more difficult. This article discusses one potential solution: an installment sale....

Do you have investments outside of tax-advantaged retirement plans? If so, you might still have time to reduce your 2019 tax bill by selling some investments ― you just need to carefully select which investments you sell. Balance gains and losses If you’ve sold investments at a gain this year, consider selling...

Traditional and Roth IRAs can be relatively “safe” retirement-savings vehicles, depending on what they’re invested in. But a drawback is that they limit investment choices. This article looks at an alternative: self-directed IRAs, which provide more flexibility in investment choices but also come with a...

When is a loss actually a gain? When that loss becomes an opportunity to lower tax liability, of course. This article discusses the tried-and-true strategy of using capital losses to counter the potentially costly impact of capital gains....