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Blank Rome LLP

2019 Estate and Tax Planning Newsletter

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Blank Rome’s annual estate and tax planning newsletter addresses estate planning concepts and techniques that should be considered in 2019 by our clients and friends. 1. Transfer Taxes. The major changes made in 2010 in...more

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IRS Clarifies Benefit Coverage Requirements for Employees of Tax-Exempt Disregarded Entities

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued General Counsel Memorandum 201634021 (Memorandum), clarifying benefit coverage requirements for employees of a disregarded LLC wholly owned by a single member tax-exempt...more

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IRS Says Employees of Disregarded Single-Member LLC May Participate in Parent’s 403(b) and 457(b) Plans

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Seyfarth Synopsis: A recently published IRS memorandum provides that employees of a single-member LLC treated as a disregarded entity must be allowed to participate in a section 403(b) plan sponsored by its parent 501(c)(3)...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

New IRS Guidance: Treatment of Disregarded Single Member LLC Employees in the 403(b) and 457(b) Plans of the Tax-Exempt Member of...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released General Counsel Memorandum 201634021 (“Memorandum”) concluding that the employees of a disregarded single member limited liability company (SMLLC) (1) must be allowed to...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

IRS Clarifies that Indirect Owners of Disregarded Entities Are Liable for Self-Employment Tax

The IRS recently released temporary regulations clarifying that an employee of a disregarded entity is liable for self-employment tax if the employee is a partner in the partnership that owns the disregarded entity. See...more

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Partnerships: IRS Extends Prohibition on Treating Partners as Employees

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Employees of partnerships, LLCs or their disregarded entity subsidiaries who receive equity in such entities may be treated as “self-employed” for tax purposes. On May 3, 2016, the US Treasury Department (Treasury)...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Neither a Partner nor Employee Be: Treasury and the IRS Issue Regulations Clarifying the Employment Tax Treatment of Partners in...

The Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (Service) have issued temporary regulations (Regulations) clarifying the federal employment tax treatment of the owners of partnerships and other entities...more

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New Regulations Squash Planning Tool for Avoiding Self-Employment Tax and Related Employee Benefit Issues

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Tax practitioners often face this issue: client is a limited liability company taxed as a partnership for federal income tax purposes (“LLC”), and it wants to issue equity to a current employee (“Individual”) without...more

Stinson - Benefits Notes Blog

Can an LLC Adopt an ESOP? IRS Says Yes

In a private letter ruling released on September 18, 2015 (PLR 201538021), the Internal Revenue Service concluded that an employer organized as a limited liability company (LLC) under a state statute, upon making a federal...more

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