Legal Updates & Commentary for Tax & Estate Planning
It may be the dream of every parent who owns a closely held business that one or more of their children will follow in their footsteps. They envision a time when a child will enter the business as an employee, learn the “ins and outs” of the business, pay their…
In light of all the attention given to the reams of regulations recently proposed under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), some people may be joking that tax advisers must have stopped counseling clients on more “mundane” business matters in order to dedicate themselves to the new rules. If these jokesters…
The Code imposes the self-employment tax on the net earnings from self-employment derived by an individual during any taxable year.
In general, the term “net earnings from self-employment” means the net income derived by an individual from any trade or business carried on by such individual, plus his distributive share (whether or…
When a business is successful and there are profits to share, the owners of the business get along well enough. As revenues fall off, however, while costs often remain steady or even increase, the owners will sometimes choose to “defer” the payment of so-called “trust fund” taxes in order to satisfy…
