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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Regulatory Update — FCC Acts Against Provider Facilitating Tax Robocalls and Initiates...

Federal Communications Commission Takes Further Action Against Provider Facilitating Illegal Tax Robocalls - Following up on its previous enforcement actions, the Federal Communications Commission’s (Commission)...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

Estate and Tax Planning for US Expatriates

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What are the most important elements of estate and tax planning for US expatriates?  Are you planning to move out of the United States?  Are you a US taxpayer who lives and works outside of the country?  What are some of the...more

Holland & Hart LLP

Mitigating Risk: Should Cannabis Businesses Withdraw ERC Claims?

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The IRS has recently made two significant announcements regarding Employee Retention Credit or “ERC” claims. First, on September 14th, 2023, the IRS announced an immediate moratorium on the processing of ERC claims through...more

Holland & Knight LLP

IRS Partnership Audits: 5 Must-Dos in 30 Days

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With the IRS laser-focused on enforcement, many partnerships will find themselves subject to their first IRS audits under the new procedurally complex partnership audit rules. Under these rules, the default is that the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Don’t Let Bank Uncertainty Delay Payroll: Considerations for Employers

With bank uncertainty making headlines, we answer employers’ most frequently asked questions about the consequences of payroll delays, strategies for mitigating risk and more. ...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Tax Benefits for Improving the C-Suite’s Security: A Look at IRS Code 132 and Working Condition Fringes

What if I told you that a security assessment of your business and residence could provide tax deductible expenses for private air transportation, a security driver, and executive protection agents and have favorable tax...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Law Firm Cyber Alerts

Practical Tips to Mitigate the Risk of Being Hacked by Fake IRS or Google Voice Scams

Risk Management Question - What are some of the newest hacking scams that may affect law firms and other businesses? The Issue - On October 27, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued warnings to be on alert...more

Freeman Law

Representing Taxpayers in Sensitive Audits: A Look at the Fundamental Challenges of an Eggshell Audit

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Sensitive audits present the tax practitioner with unique challenges.  They require the exercise of judgment and discretion, as well as an understanding of administrative procedure and even a command of constitutional and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Federal Residential Evictions Moratorium Update

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On September 4, 2020, to prevent the further spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued an Order under Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act to temporarily halt residential...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Cutting Through The Chaos: Strategies for Mitigating Tax & Compliance Risks in Family Offices - September 16th, 1:00 pm...

At best, audits by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and other regulators drain resources from a family office, racking up professional fees and diverting the time and attention of family members and staff. At worst, the...more

Oberheiden P.C.

SBA Loan Fraud Defense—How to Defend Against an Indictment

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Tips on Preparing to Defend Against Allegations of SBA Loan Fraud During the COVID-19 Crisis - Federal emergency relief legislation—including the Coronavirus Aid, Recovery, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”)—has...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

Don't Hold Your Breath: Understanding the IRS Whistleblower Reward Program Can Prevent Substantial Financial Consequences

While the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has long had a Whistleblower Office, the past few years have seen an uptick in the numbers of claims filed with the Office. In 2019 alone, according to an annual report from the...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

Bitcoin, the IRS, and the Love that was Lost

We have all heard the stories. Romeo and Juliet, Cleopatra and Mark Antony, and my personal favorite, Illsa Lund and Rick Blaine. Everyone loves a great love story.  A developing romance leading to an emotionally pleasing and...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Sometimes, it’s the luck of the draw

As an ERISA attorney for almost 21 years (my career can get its own drink), I have seen a lot of strange things that plan sponsors have done to risk the ire of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Labor...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

Collection: Disputing a Notice of Federal Tax Lien Before It Is Filed

Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) bank account levies and wage garnishments count among the scariest tax collection weapons in the U.S. Treasury arsenal. However, the Notice of Federal Tax Lien (“NFTL”) can, in many cases,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #198: Cybersecurity for Tax Professionals

This week, I was honored to again have the opportunity to participate as a speaker at the Internal Revenue Service’s Nationwide Tax Forum 2019 in Washington, D.C. Through a generous grant provided by the American Coalition...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Tax Scams put Taxpayers at Risk

The IRS produces a yearly list of Tax Scams known as the Dirty Dozen that Taxpayers may encounter.    IRS reiterates that Tax Scams put Taxpayers at Risk when it releases its list of Dirty Dozen Tax Scams.  These aggressive...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Prevent Fraud with a “Perception for Detection”

There is a reality that fraud can occur at every level of a business. Every day businesses provide to their employees, peers and partners with internal resources, currency, checks, access to accounting systems, clients and...more

Fisher Phillips

Don’t Take the Bait! “Spear Phishing” and “Whaling” Take Scams to the Next Level

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For several years now, we’ve been alerting employers about the dangers of phishing scams that attempt to obtain private and personal information from employers... Many of these scams rear their ugly head around tax season,...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Client Alert – Employers Beware: ‘Tis the Season for Data Theft

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Because cybercriminals don’t take holidays, December is an appropriate time for all employers to take steps to protect tax data and identities (both their own and their employees’) in advance of the 2019 tax-filing season....more

Sullivan & Worcester

Après LIBOR: Black Swan or Y2K

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A practical guide to the cessation of LIBOR and the transition to a new replacement benchmark rate. Unquestionably, the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate ("LIBOR") is an integral part of nearly every type of financial product...more

Butler Snow LLP

Partners Beware: New Audit Rules May Have a Big Impact on Your Bottom Line. Here’s What You Need to Know and How to Protect...

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The arcane rules surrounding partnership audits rarely, if ever, come up, and most people don’t even know that they exist. What once was a set of rules confined to the dark recesses of the Internal Revenue Code are now...more

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