Innovative Strategies For Tax Controversies, Business Structuring And Estate Planning
Tax Implications of High Salaries and Benefits Rather than have perks come under scrutiny by shareholders, or in some other public forum, some organizations decide to simply pay higher salaries to executives. However, different entities must be careful about...
It has been estimated that in the next five years or so, more than $5 trillion in value of small businesses will be changing hands. In the next 10 to 15 years, the estimate rises to $14 trillion. The main reason driving this is, of course, the aging of the Baby Boomer...
Gay/Lesbian Married Couples may get same Estate Tax Treatment as Heterosexual Couples Edith Schlain Windsor v. U.S. (DC NY 6/6/2012) A Federal District Court in New York ruled in favor of a surviving same-sex spouse’s constitutional challenge to section 3 of the...
Form 8938 – Foreign Financial Asset Reporting The IRS has released new information about assets that must be reported on Form 8938, Statement of Specified Foreign Financial Assets, This form is part of the Obama Administration’ attack on taxpayers with undisclosed...
Criminals Mine Data from Social Media Sites to Prey on Grandparents Have you heard of this recent scam? Criminals scour publicly available data on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. Then, they locate a vulnerable relative — generally a grandparent — and...
Consulting Fees Paid to C Corporation Shareholders Were Disguised Dividends The 7th Cir. affirmed Tax Court disallowance of a C corporation deduction of consulting fees paid to corporations entities owned by its shareholders. The Court agreed with the IRS that the...
US Tax Court the ports collection agency tactic of filing IRS form 1099-C for cancellation of indebtedness income. One technique used by many collection agencies is to threaten a debtor that if they do not make a payment the debt will be reported as “canceled”. This...
Loans to Inject Capital into a C Corp When you borrow to inject capital into your own C corporation (or buy shares in a closely held C corp), the related interest expense falls into the investment interest category, regardless how active you are in the business. It...
Employment laws usually favor employees. This is especially true in dealing with overtime. Employees are presumably “non-exempt” and get overtime pay for working more than 40 hours in a single work week. The pay rate for overtime work must be at least 1.5 times the...
Navigating the IRS bureaucracy can be challenging for many taxpayers. The agency processes more than 141 million individual income tax returns annually and deals with a constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. There were approximately 4,430 changes to the tax code...
