Legal Updates & Commentary for Tax & Estate Planning
What if I told you that you could sell your property today, receive cash in an amount equal to the property’s fair market value, and defer the payment of any tax imposed upon the gain from the sale?[i]
It sounds contrived, doesn’t it? How can one have their cake…
Do you know what June 29, 2019 is? Of course you do. It’s a Saturday. It’s also the 180th day of the period that began on January 1, 2019. Need another hint?
It is the final day by which a taxpayer who was an owner in a calendar-year pass-through entity – a…
Letters, acronyms, initialisms[i] – they seem to slip into every post these days.
It has always been a goal of U.S. tax policy to ensure that taxable income sourced in the U.S. does not escape the federal income tax.
In general, this income and the scenarios in which it arises are easily identifiable. However,…
Tax and bankruptcy: “Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy”[i] or “Two great tastes that taste great together”?[ii]
For years I have told my partners that there are two kinds of “codes”: those with an upper case “C”, like the Ten Commandments and the Internal Revenue…
If you’ve been representing closely held businesses long enough, then the “conversation transcribed” below should sound familiar to you.
I have had several versions of this exchange in the last few months.[i] The common theme? The risk that the IRS may not accept one or more steps in the transaction at their “face value,”…
The owners of many closely held businesses recently filed federal income tax returns on which they claimed, for the first time, the deduction based on “qualified business income” under Section 199A of the Code; many others will be doing so in October of this year.[i]
Fortunately, these taxpayers and their advisers…
In theory, the primary purpose of the income tax, as a body of law, is to raise from the governed the resources that the government requires in order to perform its most basic functions.[i] However, as society has evolved and its needs have changed, and as “the economy” has become more…
Regardless of who or what they are, taxpayers have to be careful of saying things like, “I guarantee it” or “it’s guaranteed.”
First of all, they’re not Joe Namath guaranteeing a Jets victory over the Colts in Super Bowl III, where the worst thing that could have happened had Broadway Joe…
Over the last several weeks, we have explored various aspects of the choice of entity dilemma that confronts the owners of many closely held businesses, and we have considered how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act[i] may influence their decision.
In the process, you may have realized that one form of…
A casual review of the recent tax literature may leave a “lay person” with the impression that, prior to the passage of the 2017 tax legislation, tax advisers had nothing else to write about.[i] Opportunity zones, GILTI, qualified business income, etc. – the spawn of 2017 dominates the tax…
