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Wes Parker, EA

 

AW Parker, P.C.

Forum III Building

1770 Kirby Parkway, Suite 117

Germantown, TN 38138

 

Phone: 901-794-3528

Fax:     901-794-8354

 

Email: wes@wesparkeronline.com

2026 Tax Planning Guide

OBBBA and Business Taxes

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Read through the following checklist of OBBBA provisions for businesses and note any that you think may affect your 2026 business tax planning. Further details follow. OBBBA:


  • Permanently increases bonus depreciation percentage to 100% for property acquired after January 19, 2025.

  • Makes permanent the expensing of domestic research or experimental (i.e., R&D) expenses beginning in 2025. Taxpayers with gross receipts of $32M or less may apply this change retroactively to 2022. Foreign R&D expenses must still be amortized over 15 years.

  • Makes the qualified business income (QBI) deduction permanent, increasing it to 20% and changing the phaseout of the deduction.

  • Makes permanent the excess business loss limitation.

  • Enhances the 1202 qualified small business stock (QSBS) exclusion with adjusted holding periods and increased dollar limit.

  • Phases out and repeals various business energy credit provisions, including the clean vehicle credits.

  • Permanently reinstates EBITDA calculation for interest expense limitation beginning in 2025.

  • Increases the Section 179 maximum to $2,560,000 for 2026.

  • Increases 1099-MISC/NEC reporting threshold to $2,000 in 2026.

  • Reinstates 1099-K reporting threshold to $20,000 and 200 transactions.


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