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How Can I Claim a Business Bad Debt Deduction? - Creditor's Rights Toolkit

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The Internal Revenue Code permits a business bad debt deduction when a customer fails to pay for the services rendered or the products supplied by your business. However, the ability to claim an ordinary deduction with...more

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Debt or Equity? The Never-Ending Question For Closely Held Businesses

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What Was Intended? Transactions between commonly controlled, closely held businesses are often conducted in an informal manner. This is unfortunate because, in the absence of documentation, it is sometimes difficult to...more

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Current Partnership Distributions: When Do You Figure Your Basis?

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Withdrawing Value- In general, the owners of a closely held business have several options by which they may withdraw money from the business without selling their interest in the business....more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Transfer Of Funds between Related Entities – Indebtedness Or Something Else?

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A closely held business may come to our firm for any number of reasons. The owners may be selling the business, for example, or they may be thinking about spinning off a division. In some cases, the owners are considering the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

REIT Dividends in the Wake of the Coronavirus

The pandemic’s financial impact adds another layer of complexity to REITs authorizing, declaring and paying dividends under Maryland law. Maryland REITs must carefully weigh statutory distribution requirements against...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Debt-Equity Dashed Expectations: Treasury and the Service Retain Onerous Section 385 Regulations

On Nov. 4, 2019, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) published final debt-equity regulations (the Final Regulations) and an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (the...more

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Decade Old Transactions Potentially Subject to Bankruptcy Clawback in Massachusetts

Transfers and transactions up to ten years old may be scrutinized, unwound and recovered by a trustee, the bankruptcy court sitting in Massachusetts recently held in the NECCO (think chalky wafer candy) bankruptcy case. The...more

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Loans Between Related Entities

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What Was Intended? Over the last thirty years, I have reviewed the income tax returns of many closely held corporations and partnerships. Quite often, on Schedule L (the balance sheet), I will see an entry for “other...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

IRS Issues Final Debt-Equity Regulations

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On October 13th, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) followed through on its promise to issue final regulations and temporary regulations under Section1 385 (the “Final Regulations” and “Temporary Regulations,” respectively)...more

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SALT Implications of Proposed Section 385 Debt/Equity Regulations

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Determining the difference between debt and equity is a problem that has bedeviled taxpayers and tax administrators for decades. Taxpayers, recognizing that there are tax advantages to financing a corporation with debt (e.g.,...more

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