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How The New Tax and Spending Bill Could Affect You

How the New Tax and Spending Bill Could Affect You

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed into law on July 4, 2025, brings notable changes to federal tax and spending policy that could affect your financial strategy. As your trusted financial partner, we believe it’s essential to help you stay informed and prepared.

Here’s a brief overview of the key changes:

  • Adjusted Income Tax Brackets: The bill modifies income thresholds, which may shift your tax rate depending on your earnings.
  • Standard Deduction Updates: Changes to the standard deduction could impact how much of your income is taxable.
  • Credits and Deductions: Some popular tax credits have been expanded, while others have been reduced or eliminated.
  • Capital Gains and Investment Income: New rules may affect how your investment income is taxed.
  • Retirement Contributions and Limits: Updates to contribution limits and tax treatment of retirement accounts could influence your long-term planning.

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Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions, Inc. does not provide investment, tax, legal, or retirement advice or recommendations. The information presented here is not specific to any individual’s personal circumstances. To the extent that this material concerns tax matters, it is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, by a taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding penalties that may be imposed by law. Each taxpayer should seek independent advice from a tax
professional based on his or her individual circumstances. These materials are provided for general information and educational purposes based upon publicly available information from sources believed to be reliable — we cannot assure the accuracy or completeness of these materials. The information in these materials may change at any time and without notice.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions, Inc. and do not necessarily reflect the views of Fenimore Asset Management or its officers. Fenimore Asset Management or its officers have no editorial control over the content of the article or subject matter, and is independent of Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions, Inc.

The information herein is subject to change and is not intended to be complete or to constitute all of the information necessary to evaluate adequately the consequences of investing in any securities or other financial instruments or strategies described herein. These materials also include information obtained from other sources believed to be reliable, but Fenimore does not warrant its completeness or accuracy. In no event shall Fenimore be liable for any use by any party of, for any decision made or action taken by any party in reliance upon, or for any inaccuracies or errors in, or omissions from, the information contained herein and such information may not be relied upon by you in evaluating the merits of participating in any transaction.

In part, the purpose of this presentation may be to provide investors with an update on financial market conditions. The description of certain aspects of the market herein is a condensed summary only. This summary does not purport to be complete and no obligation to update or otherwise revise such information is being assumed. These materials are provided for informational purposes only and are not otherwise intended as an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to purchase, any security or other financial instrument. This summary is not advice, a recommendation or an offer to enter into any transaction with Fenimore or any of their affiliated funds.

We undertake no duty or obligation to publicly update or revise the information contained in this presentation. In addition, information related to past performance, while helpful as an evaluative tool, is not necessarily indicative of future results, the achievement of which cannot be assured. You should not view the past performance of Fenimore funds, or information about the market, as indicative of future results.

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Account Options

Retirement Accounts

Whether you are just getting started, changing jobs, doing a 401(k) rollover, or in retirement, our team can guide you. Accounts include:

  • Traditional IRA
  • Roth IRA
  • SEP Account
  • SIMPLE IRA
  • 403(b)(7)


Education Savings Accounts

Are you ready to pay for your child’s college education? If not, we can help.

  • Coverdell Education Savings Account (ESA)

Other Types of Accounts

  • Separately Managed Accounts
  • Uniform Transfers to Minors Act Account (UTMA)
  • Trust Accounts
  • Business Accounts
  • Taxable Accounts
  • Small Business Retirement Accounts

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FIXED INCOME & BALANCED PORTFOLIOS

Are you aware that Fenimore provides fixed income offerings?

  • Our fixed income strategy’s primary objective is capital preservation with income generation. We construct bond portfolios to provide stability with current income.
  • We design balanced portfolios for those who seek both long-term capital appreciation and current income by investing in stocks, bonds, and cash.
  • The minimum Fenimore Asset Management relationship for a fixed income account is $500,000.

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Remove the Emotion from Investing

REMOVE THE EMOTION
FROM INVESTING

The numerous news headlines processed every day can cause an investor to be fearful and make misguided decisions with their assets. The good news is that there is a calm and sensible investment approach called dollar-cost averaging (DCA) that can help mitigate the angst.

  • DCA is a long-term strategy that involves investing a fixed-dollar amount into a mutual fund account (for example) at regular intervals. It takes advantage of the cyclical nature of the stock market and allows you to focus on long-term growth and ignore short-term market conditions.

  • Since you always invest the same amount, you purchase more shares when the price is low and fewer shares when the price is high. DCA’s premise is that your average cost per share may be less than your average price per share, thus reducing your investment risk over time.

  • DCA also allows for small investments that, when done consistently over time, can grow into big savings.

Automatic investing from your bank account is an easy way to make saving a habit while bringing some peace to your life.

Dollar-cost averaging is a plan of continuous investment in securities regardless of their inconsistent prices. Of course, you must consider your financial ability to continually purchase shares. As with all investment methods, there is no performance guarantee.

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