(Podcast) California Employment News – Key Rules for California Employers: Business Expense Reimbursement
California Employment News – Key Rules for California Employers: Business Expense Reimbursement
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Teleworking: Amazing or amazingly complex?
Remote work is now a customary feature of many workplaces. Until recently, employer policies (if any) governed payment of the job-related expenses incurred by remote workers. However, a number of states have now enacted...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is big news for closely held businesses. Signed into law on July 4, 2025, by President Trump, the massive spending and tax package made many provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs...more
Many companies are accelerating US expansion or entry plans due to favorable policy shifts, rising demand for domestic supply chains, and shifting population dynamics. For example: - Over the past decade, companies have...more
In this last installment of our multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”), my colleague, George Bonini, and I discuss three provisions of the OBBBA that impact many businesses, particularly those in...more
On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBBA) was signed into law, ushering in substantial changes to business-related tax provisions and incentives. Navigating these updates will be essential for effective tax...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBB) into law, making permanent the reduced individual tax rates and brackets established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and modifying a...more
President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB Act) into law on Friday July 4, 2025. Among other changes to existing federal tax laws (many of which are discussed by other alerts from this firm), the OBBB Act...more
On 26 May 2025, the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court ruled in favour of OneMed Sverige AB regarding the deductibility of consultancy fees and input VAT. OneMed had reimbursed its parent company for consulting services...more
In its decision dated February 26, 2025 (7 K 1811/21 K), the Düsseldorf Fiscal Court concluded that legal and consulting fees incurred by the indirect sale of a second-tier subsidiary by the subsidiary are deductible business...more
With the Corporate Transparency Act hopefully in our rearview mirrors, I decided to take a brief break from my ongoing series on Subchapter S and report on a different topic. In the last few weeks, the Magistrate Division of...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently issued an opinion letter addressing whether daily expense reimbursement payments can be excluded from an employee’s regular rate when calculating overtime...more
Has the Supreme Court’s opinion overturning the Chevron doctrine altered the landscape for the denial of tax deductions for marijuana businesses under Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code? Here to explore that question...more
The landscape of construction litigation has undergone a seismic shift in recent years. Gone are the days of crowded hotel conference rooms for mediations and face-to-face depositions. Today, construction litigators find...more
Are you reimbursing employees for business expenses? Weintraub attorneys Meagan Bainbridge and Nikki Mahmoudi discuss key reimbursement policies under California law, including cell phone use and mileage for business travel...more
The staff of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a report that contains the staff’s findings from its review of disclosure statements from 70 multi-level marketers (MLMs). The report is just the latest in a...more
Net Working Capital (“NWC”) targets and purchase price adjustments are a nearly universal reality in private M&A deals, though often a neglected and misunderstood topic. To greatly simplify, the NWC target is the minimum...more
There is no denying that many parts of the Code are complex and, in some cases, too obscure for many “laypersons” to comprehend. Over time, this reality spawned the need for advisers who are both knowledgeable and experienced...more
Despite the excitement of many over rescheduling cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III, the move does not make cannabis “legal” unless it is produced, sold, and used within the tightly regulated parameters of the...more
In a recent unpublished decision, the New Jersey Appellate Division considered whether employers are required to reimburse employees for business related expenses under the New Jersey Wage Payment Law (“NJWPL”) in Sands v....more
While the concept of a pass-through expense model is most often associated with multi-strategy alternative investment funds, this expense structure is beginning to gain wider traction among other managers as well, depending...more
Cannabis businesses should prepare now for certain tax benefits since the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) recent recommendation to reschedule cannabis from a Schedule I controlled substance to a Schedule III...more
The cannabis industry knows well the economic burden imposed by Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Code). It substantially increases the cost of doing business because it disallows deductions for expenses...more
On May 21, 2024, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) filed the Proposed Rule to move marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to Schedule III of the CSA. In light of the rescheduling marijuana news,...more
The costs associated with hiring attorneys, defending a lawsuit, and paying for damages or a settlement can be exorbitant, and will inevitably damage a company’s profitability. The good news is these payments are often tax...more