The Big Beautiful Bill: New Tax Laws That Could Save You Thousands in 2025

In this episode of Keep What's Yours, tax strategist Jeff Zufall breaks down the massive new tax legislation signed by President Trump on July 4th, 2025, revealing game-changing opportunities for taxpayers. From tax-free tips up to $25,000 and overtime deductions capped at $12,500 per person, to auto loan interest deductions on American-made vehicles and enhanced standard deductions, this "big beautiful bill" contains provisions that could dramatically reduce your tax burden. Jeff explains how these changes apply retroactively to January 2025, meaning you could benefit from strategies implemented right now, while also covering critical updates like the IRS eliminating paper checks starting September 30th and the upcoming expiration of EV credits and home energy improvement deductions. Whether you're planning retirement, dealing with inherited IRAs, or simply want to keep more money in your pocket, this episode provides essential insights into navigating the new tax landscape and maximizing your savings before key provisions sunset in 2028. Call Jeff at Capital Advisory Group at 636-394-5524 and learn how you too can “Keep What’s Yours.


2025-07-12 The Big Beautiful Bill: New Tax Laws That Could Save You Thousands in 2025

The bill Trump championed is now signed into law, promising sweeping tax relief, tougher border security, and a bold new economic vision that Republicans will rally behind heading into 2026.

CN Blog Episode - 41 Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Is Law. What Comes Next

Americans for Prosperity’s $20 million grassroots effort passed tax reform, marking a conservative organizing success and a warning to the left.

CN Blog Episode - 51 Behind the Bill How AFP Helped Pass the Big Beautiful Bill

This Episode is Sponsored by: CBIZ 

How will the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) impact your food business? Unraveling the implications of new legislation is never easy, but Patrick O'Reilly and Jeff Pera of CBIZ explain how provisions of the bill related to no tax on tips, depreciation and expensing of capital purchases, and research and development will impact the industry.

Check out CBIZ's Big Beautiful Bill information page here: https://www.cbiz.com/insights/big-beautiful-bill

More about CBIZ:
As of November 2024, Marcum LLP is now a part of CBIZ. Our Food & Beverage Services group has the perfect recipe of knowledge and service capabilities to help you stay flexible. Our professionals provide the accounting, tax, and consulting services so that you can concentrate on the growth of your business.    

Just as our service capabilities are diverse, so, too, are the types of food and beverage clients we serve, including distributors and manufacturers, importers, restaurant chains, processors and packaging, agribusinesses, and retailers.   

CBIZ, Inc. (NYSE:CBZ) is a leading professional services advisor to middle market businesses and organizations nationwide. With unmatched industry knowledge and expertise in accounting, tax, advisory, benefits, insurance and technology, CBIZ delivers forward-thinking insights and actionable solutions to help you anticipate next steps and accelerate growth. 

Learn more: https://www.cbiz.com/accounting-tax/industries/retail/food-beverage  

More about Patrick O'Reilly:
Patrick O’Reilly is a managing director with CBIZ. He primarily serves as an outsourced CFO for clients, providing senior level management and oversight of accounting and finance operations. Patrick has an emphasis on improving internal controls and operational efficiency. He has a depth of experience and knowledge of the food and beverage industry, including restaurant operations, among others. Patrick is knowledgeable in taxation, business plan formulation and implementation, human resource management, payroll, benefits administration, insurance, retirement plans, and all manners of financial accounting software applications. While Patrick is most frequently engaged as an ongoing outsourced resource, he also provides interim situations as needed.


More about Jeff Pera:
Jeff Pera is a managing director with CBIZ and serves as the Food & Beverage Industry Leader for CBIZ in the West Region. He provides tax, business, and industry advice and insights to clients with an extensive focus in the food and beverage industry. He uses his in-depth industry knowledge as the basis for developing and applying tax and value-added business strategies customized to his clients. Previously, Jeff was a managing partner in the Greater Bay area at a national accounting firm. He also has served as a managing director at a wealth advisory firm and was partner-in-charge of the middle-market practice at a “Big Four” accounting firm.

How Will the Big Beautiful Bill Impact Food & Beverage?

Car Tax Credits, SALT Deductions, and the BLS Shake-Up
In this episode of "Keep What's Yours," tax strategist Jeff Zufall and host Josh Gilbert dive deep into the sweeping changes from the new tax legislation that's already impacting your 2025 taxes. Discover how you could claim up to $10,000 in car loan interest deductions if you bought a U.S.-made vehicle this year, learn about the expanded SALT deduction cap that jumped from $10,000 to $40,000 (potentially affecting 100 million Americans), and get the inside scoop on why Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief over concerning job numbers. From the ongoing tariff effects and Fed interest rate speculation to seniors getting an additional $6,000 standard deduction, Jeff breaks down the complex moving parts of tax policy in plain English. Whether you're planning retirement, bought a new car, or just want to keep more money in your pocket, this episode reveals the tax strategies and credits you need to know about right now.

The IRS reports that small businesses overpay their taxes every year. Stop overpaying - Call Capital Advisory Group at 636-394-5524 today!


2025-08-09 Car Tax Credits, SALT Deductions, and the BLS Shake-Up

The Illinois State Fair marked the unofficial launch of the 2026 election cycle. Democrats and Republicans brought major names to the stage to help showcase their candidates and fire up their supporters. Peter Hancock, Jerry Nowicki and Ben Szalinksi share their impressions of the events and discuss what it all signals about the campaigns ahead.

Fair roundup

In this episode of Keep What's Yours, tax strategist Jeff Zufall and host Josh Gilbert dive into the latest tax code changes from the recently passed "Big Beautiful Bill" (Trump Tax Bill 2.0), including the expansion of 529 plan withdrawals from $10,000 to $20,000 for private school tuition and new charitable deduction allowances of $1,000 for singles and $2,000 for married couples filing jointly. They also analyze current economic conditions, discussing inflation numbers at 2.9%, the Federal Reserve's upcoming meeting with expected interest rate cuts, and recently revised job numbers showing the economy was overstated by over 1.5 million jobs in 2024. The conversation covers Missouri's personal property tax quirks (why jet skis and trailers are taxed but golf carts aren't), tariff impacts on inflation, and practical advice on maximizing tax savings through 529 plans and charitable giving strategies that take effect retroactively for the entire 2025 tax year.

The IRS reports that small businesses overpay their taxes every year. Stop overpaying - Call Capital Advisory Group at 636-394-5524 today!

2025-09-13 Tax Strategy Update: New Deductions, Fed Rate Cuts, and the Big Beautiful Bill Breakdown

Democrats see an opening to reframe Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” as a Medicaid slasher, while Republicans risk silence that could cost them suburban moderates in 2026.

CN Blog Episide - 69 The Big Beautiful Trap How Democrats Are Weaponizing Trump’s Medicaid Cuts

🧨 THE BIG BEAUTIFUL NO

📅 Inspired by May 22, 2025 — the night the system blinked and showed its face.

They called it a budget vote.
We saw a seance of spite.
Every Democrat said no.
A few Red ghosts whispered “present”.
And still… it passed.
By one.

This track isn’t about the man behind the bill.
It’s about the machine that couldn’t bear to let it live.

Because when you’re still haunted by 2016,
You’ll burn the bridge just to spite the builder.

This isn’t politics.
This is performance.
This is the ritual of the stuck.

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🎧 Style: Cinematic Rapcore x Haunted Trap x Ghost Chamber
🎪 Vibe: Political theatre meets glitch gospel
🔥 Status: Spread active. They said no to the fire… but it still burned through.

"Passed by one. Opposed by all. Exposed by us."

Or:

"Ghosts don’t build. They vote ‘no.’"

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🖤 Lyrics:
[Intro]
This wasn’t about the bill.
It was about the builder.
They still flinch at the echo…
Still vote like it’s 2016.

[Verse 1]
Could’ve fed the hands that build,
Heal the wounds, erase the guilt—
But pride don’t settle, it sets fire
And they’d rather burn than lift it higher

Cloaked in law, veiled in grace
But we saw the spite behind the face
Not for the people, not for the cause—
Just stuck on a name that rewrote their laws

Blue bloc marched, red ghosts split
Truth got twisted to fit their script
RINOs blinked, played safe in tow
And all the world heard was—

[Chorus]
It’s the Big Beautiful No!
Truth on the table, but they let it go
Still haunted by the name they won’t outgrow
Not about the bill—just the echo they loathe

It’s the Big Beautiful No!
They’d rather watch the gears move slow
Than see it signed by the hand they know
Still mad at a builder they couldn’t control

[Verse 2]
“Present” don’t mean clean
It just means scared to be seen
Votes like daggers in a velvet case
Sliced the workers straight in the face

No to the welders, the teachers, the trucks
No to the hands that never pass the buck
Said it was cost—but that’s not why
They just still bleed from a loss they hide

Spite’s a shackle, cold and old
And every “nay” was fear retold
Still gripping a grudge they can’t outgrow—
Just ghosts voting “No.”

[Bridge]
They thought they'd stop it…
But it passed.
By one.
One voice louder than all their silence.
That’s the will they couldn’t kill.

[Final Chorus]
It’s the Big Beautiful No!
But the people rose, and they made it so
One vote lit the undertow
Built by hands that still say “go”

It’s the Big Beautiful No!
Yet the will of the many found its glow
Passed in shadow, but the light still shows
They tried to bury it—
But it rose.

[Outro]
You never hated the bill…
You hated that you didn’t write it.

They said “no” to the fire…
But it still burned through.

The Big Beautiful No

Rep. Anna Moeller, who chairs the House budget committee that oversees health and human services funding, discusses the challenges presented to state policymakers by the recent partial shutdown of the federal government, the suspension of SNAP benefits and upcoming rule changes for Medicaid beneficiaries.

Federal turmoil challenges state policymakers

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