Legal Updates & Commentary for Tax & Estate Planning
Science has not established – at least to my knowledge – any correlation between the pre-election year-end activities of individual business owners, on the one hand, and election outcomes, on the other.[i]
If the behavior of business owners were considered an accurate indicator of election results, then one may reasonably…
I sometimes wonder at the number of corporations that own real property.
It is often the case that the property is the corporation’s principal asset, which it leases to one or more commercial tenants, for example. That’s bad enough.[i]
There are other instances, however, in which the corporation is engaged in…
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…
I recently recalled a client that was referred to us a few years back, shortly before it was acquired by a larger company. The client was closely held by U.S. individuals and by an S corporation, and was organized as a Delaware LLC that was treated as a partnership for U.S.…
The owners of a closely held business will confront many difficult decisions during the life of the business. Among the earliest of these decisions – and one with which the business may have to contend for many years to come[i] – is the so-called “choice of entity”: in what legal form…
One of the thorniest tasks to confront a tax adviser may be having to determine whether the business or investment relationship between two taxpayers constitutes a partnership for tax purposes.
Where the persons involved have formed a limited liability company or a limited partnership under state law, they have formed a tax law partnership[i]…
