On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced an interim final rule, which was officially published in the Federal Register on March 26, 2025, removing the requirement for U.S. companies and...more
4/16/2025
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UPDATE as of 3/4/25: As of February 18, 2025, all nationwide injunctions barring the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) had been lifted. For approximately ten days, the CTA mandatory beneficial...more
As a result of the wildfires in Los Angeles County, California, on January 10, 2025, the IRS extended substantially all tax filing and payment dates until October 15, 2025, for residents of Los Angeles County. On January 11,...more
1/15/2025
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The IRS recently confirmed that, for 2022, the aggregate amount that can be given away without being subject to the gift or estate tax will increase to $12.06 million per individual. Thus, as of 2022, a married couple...more
On March 25, 2021, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the For the 99.5 Percent Act (the “99.5 Percent Act”) which proposes to modify the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax.
Proposed Estate and Gift Tax Rates...more
During the week of March 15, both the Internal Revenue Service and the California Franchise Tax Board extended the deadlines for individual taxpayers to file their 2020 income tax returns and pay their 2020 taxes from April...more
California Proposition 19, which appeared on the November 3, 2020, ballot, appears likely to pass. The measure currently has a 51.1% “Yes” vote, although all votes have not been counted and the results of the election have...more
Although it has occurred sporadically – Notice 20-17 on March 18, Notice 20-18 on March 21, Notice 20-20 on March 27 – the IRS has finally issued comprehensive (almost) guidance in Notice 20-23 on April 9 providing for the...more
4/15/2020
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Updated as of April 10, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. -
Over the last few weeks, various taxing authorities have issued guidance alleviating several of the annual upcoming deadlines and provided additional useful tax planning...more
Over the last few weeks, various taxing authorities have issued guidance alleviating several of the annual upcoming deadlines and provided additional useful tax planning information. The guidance is changing almost daily, and...more
4/1/2020
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Updated as of March 23, 2020 at 11:30 a.m.
On Friday, March 20, 2020, the IRS released updated guidance, confirming Secretary Mnuchin’s statements from earlier in the day that the April 15, 2020, federal income tax filing...more
3/24/2020
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Marc M. Stern, an estate planning partner at Greenberg Glusker, was quoted in a Daily Journal article published on January 11, 2017, about the potential for a system under Trump in which exotic accounting methods to reduce...more
Transfers of Family-Controlled Business Entities to Family Members Could Get More Expensive -
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released proposed regulations that will dramatically change the valuation of...more