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Ask Tom Anything - October 2026
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Is Your Continuing Education Making You Better?
Most practitioners have no trouble finding continuing education (CE) hours: free webinars are plentiful, and plenty of paid courses compete for the rest. The harder question is whether those hours make the practitioner more competent, which...
Significant Participation: The Forgotten §469 Test
Many practitioners apply §469 using only one of the seven material participation tests: more than 500 hours is material participation, and anything less is passive.
The most often overlooked material participation test is the significant...
Are the $500 ACA Rebate Checks Taxable?
On September 10, 2026, President Trump announced that the federal government would issue $500 checks to nearly one million Americans for participating in the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchange. Individuals receiving...
The Evolving Educator Deduction
One deduction became two, and preschool teachers now qualify
The educator expense deduction sat untouched for a decade. Between July 2025 and September 2026, Congress changed it twice: first by adding an uncapped itemized deduction alongsi...
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