Rates & Amounts
Depreciation
Farm Taxes
Individual Issues
Acronyms
100

With the many changes in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the number of income tax brackets changed.  (True/False)

What is false

100

Identify which of the following is not a type of depreciation: MACRS, SL, ADS, SLD.

What is SLD?

100

All farmers fill out this tax form yearly.

What is Schedule F?

100

The new tax law allows deducting charitable contributions (T/F).

What is true?

100

The name of the agency overseeing taxes - IRS.

What is the Internal Revenue Service?

200

The new flat taxable rate is changed to 21%

What is the corporate tax rate?

200

The new tax law classifies new farm equipment as MACRS property as: a) 5 yr, b) 7 yr, c) 10 yr

What is a) 5 yr?

200

Farmers who use accrual accounting cannot use Schedule F (T or F).

What is false?

200

The 2018 maximum dollars for annual gift tax exclusion.

What is $15,000?

200

The name of the new tax law TCJA.

What is Tax Cuts & Jobs Act?

300

For 2018, state the maximum contribution amount for an individual for an IRA.

What is $5,500.

300

This type of depreciation will be phased out from 2022 to 2027.

What is bonus depreciation?

300

The actual name of Schedule F is: 1)Farm Transactions, b) Profit and Loss From Farming, c) Income and Expenses From Farming, d) Farm Taxes

What is b) Profit and Loss From Farming?

300

The new tax bill suspended several items including: a) health savings accounts, b) home mortgage interest, c) personal exemptions, d) living expenses for members of Congress, e) a & b, f) c & d

What is f) c & d ?

300

FMV refers to step up basis in estates.

What is Fair Market Value?

400

Health Savings Accounts 2018 maximum contributions: a) family - $6,900, b) family - $7,000, c) single - $3,450, d) single - $3,500, e) a & c, f) b & d

What is e (a & c)?

400

In 2018, the amount of Section 179, expensing deduction was: a) $500,000, b) $510,000, c) $1,000,000, d) $1,020,000

What is c) $1,000,000?

400

Schedule F consists of 3 parts.  Name Part II or an item that goes in Part II.

What is expenses (truck expenses, chemicals, custom hire, depreciation, Section 179, feed, fertilizer, fuel, insurance, interest, etc.)?

400

Each person is allowed an individual lifetime estate tax exemption amount, in 2018 the amount was: a) $5,490,000, b) $11,180,000, c) $2,540,000, d) $14,650,000

What is b) $11,180,000?

400

MFJ refers to a method of filing taxes.

What is Married Filing Jointly?

500

There are multiple individual tax rates, identify the low and the high for 2018.

What is 10% and 37%?

500

The new law allows which type of property to be eligible for like-kind exchanges.

What is real property?

500

Schedule F consists of 3 part.  Name Part I or an item that goes in it.

What is farm income (livestock sales, sale of grain, coop distributions, USDA ag program payments, CCC loans, crop insurance proceeds, custom hire work)

500

One of the new tax law changes allows distributions from 529 plans to be used to pay up to a total of $10,000 of tuition per beneficiary each year of elementary or secondary (K-12) for: a) public school, b) private school, c) home school d) a & b, e) b & c, f) all the above

What is d) a & b ?

500

MACRS refers to a depreciation method.

What is Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System?