John Hyre

3 Devastating Checkbook IRA Mistakes

3 Devastating Checkbook IRA Mistakes

When a Phoenix engineer started flipping real estate after the 2008 housing crash, his first few flips netted him about $126,000. Things were off to a great start. However, due to a serious mistake, the engineer made when he set up his flipping business using a Checkbook LLC, he ended ...
Control Your Service Providers or See Your IRA Destroyed

Control Your Service Providers or See Your IRA Destroyed

Recently, I have started to notice a disturbing pattern: Service providers are destroying their clients’ individual retirement accounts (IRAs). Since nothing speaks so loudly as an example, I shall provide two that I have seen in the last year. I have edited the facts for the sake of privacy. Example ...
IRS Gets Its Wings Clipped on Roth IRAs and “Substance” Doctrine

IRS Gets Its Wings Clipped on Roth IRAs and “Substance” Doctrine

Taxpayers recently got some good news via the 6th Circuit Court, and most have no idea. The court recently ruled in favor of a Roth IRA owner who “fed” his account with about $5 million in business directed the account’s way by the owner. This means that account owner will ...