Legal Updates & Commentary for Tax & Estate Planning
Over the last few months, we’ve considered on several occasions how Albany may respond to the fiscal crisis arising from the pandemic and the ensuing reduction in economic activity. These circumstances have placed an incredible strain upon the State’s various social safety nets,[i] as many individuals find themselves in…
What a year it has already been, and we are just beginning the third full week of 2021. The Democrats swept Georgia, thereby giving that Party a majority in the U.S. Senate and ostensible control over Congress. The U.S. began vaccinating high risk health care workers against the COVID-19 virus.…
Last week, New York’s Governor Cuomo released his proposed budget for the State’s 2021 fiscal year. After criticizing the Federal limitation on itemized deductions for state and local taxes,[i] the Governor commented on the “out-migration” from the State of many high-earning New Yorkers, thus implying a causal connection between…
Many business owners who reside in New York, and whose business is headquartered in the state, pay income taxes not only to New York, but to other jurisdictions as well.
For example, the resident owners of a business may operate through a corporation that has elected to be treated as an S corporation,…
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 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…
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…
