When a business owner sells, the headline number is the purchase price. The number that actually matters is what’s left after tax, and that depends less on the price than on how the price is characterized. Two sellers can close identical $2 million deals and walk away with after-tax proceeds that differ by tens of thousands of dollars, simply because one negotiated the allocation and the other signed whatever the buyer’s attorney drafted. In an asset sale, the IRS doesn’t see

A rental is a rental, right? Not when it's overseas. Foreign rental real estate is stuck on a slower depreciation schedule with no bonus depreciation, and recapture at sale brings in currency translation and FTC sourcing that most software won't catch. Here's the full domestic-vs-foreign comparison.

Learn the tax implications of selling your home, both in the U.S. and abroad. Understand how the home sale exclusion, depreciation recapture, and foreign tax credits work for U.S. taxpayers.