2024 key numbers

Each year modifications are made to important tax, retirement, investment, education, estate and other thresholds, exemptions, and limitations. Our FINRA-compliant Key Numbers Center aids your annual planning.

 

Individual Income Tax Planning

  • Adoption Credit

  • Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)

  • Charitable Deductions

  • Child Tax Credit

  • Classroom expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers

  • Earned income tax credit (EITC)

  • Expatriation

  • Foreign earned income

  • Itemized deductions

  • Kiddie tax

  • Medicare tax (additional payroll tax and unearned income contribution tax)

  • Nanny tax

  • Personal exemption amount

  • "Saver's Credit"

  • Standard deductions

  • Standard mileage rates

 

2024 Federal Income Tax Rate Schedules

(Individuals, Trusts, and Estates)

  • Single Taxpayers

  • Married filing jointly and surviving spouses

  • Married individuals filing separately

  • Heads of household

  • Trusts and estates

 

2023 Federal Income Tax Rate Schedules

(Individuals, Trusts, and Estates)

  • Single Taxpayers

  • Married filing jointly and surviving spouses

  • Married individuals filing separately

  • Heads of household

  • Trusts and estates

 

Business planning

  • Adoption Assistance Programs

  • Earnings subject to FICA taxes (taxable wage base)

  • Health insurance deduction for self-employed

  • Qualified transportation fringe benefits

  • Section 179 expensing

  • Small business tax credit for providing health-care coverage

  • Special additional first-year depreciation allowance

  • Standard mileage rate (per mile)

 

Education Planning

  • American Opportunity and Lifetime Learning Credits

  • Coverdell education savings accounts

  • Deduction for qualified higher education expenses

  • Deduction for student loan interest

  • Gift tax exclusion

  • Kiddie tax

  • U.S. savings bonds--interest exclusion for higher education expenses

 

Protection Planning

  • Eligible long-term care premium deduction limits:

  • Per diem limit

  • Archer Medical Savings Accounts

  • Flexible spending account (FSA) for health care

  • Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)

 

estate planning

  • Annual gift tax exclusion

  • Estate tax applicable exclusion amount

  • Gift tax applicable exclusion amount

  • GSTT exemption

 

Government Benefits

  • Social Security

  • Medicare

  • Medicaid

 

Retirement Planning

  • Employee/individual contribution limits

  • Employer contribution/benefit limits

  • Compensation limits/thresholds

 

Investment Planning

  • Maximum tax on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends

  • Unearned income Medicare contribution tax ("net investment income tax")