Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 278: Listen and Learn -- Partnership Liability
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 464: Listen and Learn -- Partnership Formation
Nonprofit Basics: Overview of Nonprofit Charitable Organization Types: Corporation, LLC, Trust, Association and Fiscal Sponsorship
Episode 23: LLCs as They Approach the 50-Year Milestone: A Conversation with Professor Susan Pace Hamill
Why Cannabis Related Businesses Must Consider Legal and Tax Issues
NGE On Demand: Profits Interests: Granting & Receiving with Patty Cain and Josh Klein
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 280: Listen and Learn -- Piercing the Corporate Veil
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 120: Listen and Learn -- Piercing the Corporate Veil
Byron Egan – Upcoming Release of EGAN ON ENTITIES Third Edition
THE ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR PART IV
Navigating the LLC Jungle - I Know a Lawyer Podcast
THE ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR
Episode 021: Member Liquidity, Default Rules, and the Corporate-ization of LLCs: A Conversation with Dean Donald J. Weidner
Episode 20: The LLC's Two Worlds: A Conversation with Professor Peter Molk (Part Two)
Episode 19: The LLC’s Two Worlds: A Conversation with Professor Peter Molk (Part One)
Lowndes Client Corner Podcast Episode 5 - Winter Park Distilling Company Brews One-Of-A-Kind Facility in Winter Park
Investment Management Update – Exit Strategies
Lawyers on Tap: Tap Tips for Entity Formation and Taxation
Earlier this week, Treasury and the IRS issued guidance to halt the use of partnership rules in the Internal Revenue Code to engage in abusive basis-shifting transactions whereby tax basis is stripped from certain assets and...more
The IRS recently provided guidance addressing inadvertent terminations of S Corporation (S Corp) status based on existing provisions in corporate documents that remain after a company makes an S Corp election. This can be a...more
On January 19, 2024, the US Small Business Administration (SBA) created a new exception applicable to business development companies (BDCs) with wholly owned small business investment companies (SBICs) that will allow use of...more
Another Change- Last week BDO confirmed that it was going to convert from an entity organized as a limited liability partnership under state law to one organized as a corporation. With that, BDO became the latest in a...more
Decisions- It is often the case that the optimal form of legal entity through which a business should operate, at least for income tax purposes, will depend in part upon the stage of its life cycle in which the business...more
The Maryland Comptroller’s Office issued a Tax Alert on April 11, 2023 addressing policy and procedural changes to pass-through entity (PTE) filings and payments. For tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2022, PTEs are required...more
The Virginia Department of Taxation (Department) recently published Virginia Pass-Through Entity Tax Frequently Asked Questions for Taxable Years 2022 and After (FAQs). As summarized below, the FAQs provide helpful guidance...more
The real estate industry – and much of our economy – is at a point where we must shift. With the pace of inflation and interest rate increases, some of those shifts will be large. And those large shifts may challenge the...more
I recently encountered an interesting situation in which someone suggested that a grantor trust be decanted into a non-grantor trust before the end of the taxable year. The reason? To avoid the special interest charge that...more
New Mexico recently enacted legislation qualifying pass-through entities to make an annual election to pay an entity-level state tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022. Here’s what it means for your oil...more
Virginia recently enacted legislation that provides an opportunity for the owners of a qualified pass-through entity (PTE) to reduce their federal income tax liability if the PTE makes an election to pay Virginia taxes at the...more
What is the right entity for your new business? The default answer is often considered to be a corporation, as it provides the owner with protection from business debts and has a lower 21 percent federal tax rate. The...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (The “TCJA”) imposes a $10,000 cap on the amount an individual may deduct for federal tax purposes for the payment of state and local income, property and sales taxes (referred to as “SALT”)....more
Timing- I had planned to post this piece during the third week of December, a day or so after the exchange between Senator Manchin and the White House sealed the fate of the Build Back Better plan, at least in its current...more
On December 20, 2021, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation (H.B. 5376) allowing owners of S corporations and partnerships (including limited liability companies taxed as partnerships) to pay their state and local...more
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation on December 20, 2021, allowing Michigan pass-through entities to elect to pay a newly enacted 4.25% income tax and for the owners of those entities to claim a tax credit...more
The Calm Before? I’m confused. For better or worse, I’m pretty sure that I am not alone. Last week, in a letter addressed to the American people, forty-six of the fifty Republicans in the U.S. Senate indicated they...more
On April 27, 2021, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) Uniformity Committee voted to accept its Standing Subcommittee’s recommendation to create a work group to study several key issues relating to multistate taxation of...more
What A Ride- No one anticipated that the Administration’s proposed tax increases would fly through Congress easily – at least no one residing in a state in which the recreational use of marijuana has not been legalized....more
The 2017 Tax Act made life harder on individuals living in high tax states (such as New York, New Jersey, and California) by limiting the deduction for state and local taxes (“SALT”) to $10,000. In an attempt to circumvent...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 Tax Act) limited the deduction of state and local taxes to $10,000 for individuals. Several states, including Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland, have passed legislation that imposed income...more
Structuring the family business. This is a solution for every taxpayer to triple a Roth contribution. #assetprotection #estateplanning #retirementplanning #employeebenefits #entrepreneur #taxplanning...more
Nowotny On Death and Taxes episode #26, The Accidental Entrepreneur Part IV - Creating the Family Pension Plan speaks to a solution for every taxpayer to triple a Roth contribution....more
Retired Navy SEALs apparently have a persistence that other taxpayers may not have. Case in point (literally)—Noell Industries, Inc. v. Idaho State Tax Commission, decided on May 22, 2020, by the Idaho Supreme Court. ...more
On January 13, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the “Pass-Through Business Alternative Income Tax Act” (the Workaround Act). The Workaround Act establishes an elective entity level tax on an individual’s...more