Instructor
David Peters
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Instructor
David R. Peters, CPA, CFP, CLU, CPCU, MST, MBA
Founder & Owner, Peters Professional Education
David Peters is the Founder and Owner of Peters Professional Education in Richmond, VA, and is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an Investment Advisor Representative (IAR) with Peters Financial LLC. He has over fifteen years of experience in financial services, including 3 years in the hedge fund industry and six years in the insurance industry.
David was the first-ever Chief Financial Officer at Compare.com - a position he held for over three years. He is a national CPE Instructor/Discussion Leader for Surgent, Kaplan, the AICPA and Don Farmer Tax Courses. He regularly teaches courses in accounting, finance, insurance, financial planning, and ethics throughout the United States.
He holds four master’s degrees and contributes regularly to various CPA publications, including NCACPA’s Interim Report, SCACPA’s CPA Report, and VSCPA’s Disclosures. He was also a co-author of the Virginia CPA Ethics course in 2018, 2019 and 2020 – a required course for all CPAs licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Even though it has been around several years, many practitioners fail to take full advantage of the QBI deduction due to its complexity and many nuances. In this course, we will discuss how to maximize the QBI deduction. We will get into the details of what QBI includes (and doesn’t include), which entity structures work best for the QBI deduction, and what to do if we have negative QBI. While the QBI deduction is only one deduction on the tax return, for small business owners, it may be the largest and most important deduction that they can take!
- State which activities are eligible for a QBI deduction and any limitations.
- Identify planning techniques to increase the QBI deduction.
- Recognize which entity types may increase an equity owner’s QBI deduction.
- What is combined QBI?
- QBI Phaseout
- Specified Service Trade or Business Definition
- A formal definition of QBI
- What is UBIA?
- QBI Deductions for Rental Property
- Entity Considerations for QBI Deductions
- QBI Losses
Basic understanding of flow-through entity taxation
Tax practitioners and financial advisors who work with small business owners on tax planning and tax strategy.
