Four media outlets have quoted Tax Law for the Closely Held Business blog author Lou Vlahos on the topic of whether New York resident President Donald Trump will be successful in changing his residency to Florida for tax purposes. In these articles, Lou discusses steps that President Trump must take to effectively establish domicile in
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Statutory Residence in NY: The “Permanent Place of Abode” Test Is in Need of Repair

Moving To Florida?
A few days ago, one of the daily tax services reported that the billionaire investor and businessman, Carl Icahn, was planning to move his home from New York City to Florida, presumably for tax reasons. What’s more, the article continued, Icahn was planning to move his NYC-based business (including employees) to Florida.…
The Nonresident Taxpayer vs New York – “Know When to Fold ‘Em”[i]

NY’s Tax Jurisdiction
Last week we considered New York’s “statutory residence” rule pursuant to which an individual domiciled outside of New York may nevertheless be taxed by New York as to all of their income for a taxable year – including their business income – regardless of its source, by virtue of maintaining a permanent…
Doing Business in New York? Domiciled Elsewhere? Paranoid over New York Residency Status?

Welcome (?) to NY
The Tax Foundation recently issued its annual State Business Tax Climate Index. The 2019 Index compares the fifty States across five major areas of taxation: corporate taxes, individual income taxes, sales taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, and property taxes; it then adds the results to generate a final, overall ranking. According…
Permanent Place of Abode, Proximity to One’s Business, and N.Y. Residence

“Life” Goes On
Over the last month or so, most of the nation’s tax practitioners have been devoting an extraordinary amount of time to analyzing the recently enacted changes to the Code, to understanding the resulting consequences, and to determining how they may advise their clients.
Based upon the volume of material that these tax…