Home for the Holidays?

Our last post considered the division of a business between family members as a means of preempting the adverse consequences that will often follow disagreements within the family as to the management or direction of the business. https://www.taxlawforchb.com/2018/12/business-purpose-and-dividing-the-family-corporation-think-before-you-let-it-rip/.

This week, as family members return to work – after having come

Pro “C” Corporation Bias?

Although closely-held businesses have generally welcomed the TCJA’s[i] amendments to the Code relating to the taxation of business income, many are also frustrated by the complexity of some of these changes. Among the provisions that have drawn the most criticism on this count are the changes to the taxation of

It is said that repetition is the mother of all learning. It is also said that insanity is repeating the same mistake and expecting a different result. It is my hope that the result of the former will overwhelm the source of the latter before it is too late.

However, based upon the seemingly continuous

Worlds Collide?

I like to tell my partners that there are Codes (upper case “C”), and there are codes (lower case “c”). The former include the Ten Commandments, the Code of Hammurabi, the Code of Justinian, and the Internal Revenue Code. The latter include the Pirate’s Code – which, as Captain Barbossa tells us in