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THE WONDER YEARS WEBINAR
Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Optimizing Your Practice for Sale
Qualified Opportunity Zone Update: Highlights of Treasury's Second Set of Proposed Regulations
Podcast: Tax Reform and Its Impact on Exempt Organizations, One Year In
Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund Investments
Episode 26: Talking Tax Reform and Executive Comp
Executive Compensation Packages – Interview with David Lagasse, Member, Mintz Levin
What Individuals and Businesses Need to Know About the American Taxpayer Relief Act
Are all foreign currency gains taxable? No. Under a de minimis exemption individual taxpayers with foreign currency gains of $200 or less on a “personal transaction” do not need to report them....more
Navigating the federal taxation of foreign currency can be compared to trying to cross a perilous sea. Both involve unexpected rough patches, serious difficulties, and frustrating complexity....more
Tax practitioners will be busy in the coming weeks. Usually, in the lead-up to the issuance of the federal budget, released this year on April 16, 2024 (“Budget 2024”), there is speculation that the capital gains rate will be...more
Last week, Sen. Warren reintroduced her “Ultra-Millionaires” wealth tax proposal to the Senate. Query her timing. The measure has the proverbial snowball’s chance in Hell of being enacted by this Congress.Perhaps the Senator...more
Thanks to a generous federal gift and estate tax exemption amount ($13.61 million for 2024), only the wealthiest of families are exposed to estate tax liability. For many, this means that estate planning now has a stronger...more
So, you’re a real estate investor accustomed to tax mitigation strategies and you are starting to think about your next big project. With that comes so many streams of thought — location, timing, interest rates, partnerships,...more
The Office of the New York State Comptroller just released a new report that examines taxpayer migration trends during the pandemic. The report, which builds on an earlier analysis of pre-pandemic taxpayer migration trends,...more
On November 21, 2023, the Government of Canada released its Fall Economic Statement. Among the measures included in the statement are improved tax incentives for Employee Ownership Trusts (“EOTs”)....more
On November 21, 2023, the Canadian Department of Finance (“Finance”) released its 2023 Fall Economic Statement (“FES 2023”). The focus of FES 2023 was on affordability measures, particularly with respect to housing. New...more
Business owners contemplating selling their companies often look to their tax advisers for options to reduce the potential tax impact upon sale. One option routinely considered is having the owner contribute a portion of the...more
The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 established the requirement that the President submit a budget to Congress for the upcoming fiscal year. Among other things, the proposed federal budget affords the President an...more
Last Thursday, New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who represents the 33rd District (basically, the northwestern quadrant of The Bronx), proposed legislation that seeks to collect more taxes from the State’s high-income...more
When incorporating a business, you may form a C corporation or S corporation. If you choose a C corporation, consideration should be given to qualifying the stock as “qualified small business stock” (“QSBS”)....more
Effective January 1, 2022, Washington imposes an excise tax on an individual’s long-term capital gains from the sale of stock, bonds, and other assets exceeding $250,000 if the assets were located in Washington at the time of...more
The IRS has issued Revenue Procedure 2022-38, which sets forth inflation-adjusted items for various provisions of the Internal Revenue Code which will be applicable in 2023. Here are some of the highlights...more
Just over a week ago, in Changes to Tax on Carried Interest Would Lead to Conflicts of Interest, I wrote about a proposal in Congress to modify the tax laws relating to carried interests. However, now like Ko-Ko, carried...more
On July 27, 2022, Senator Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation entitled the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” (the “Reconciliation Bill”). The Reconciliation Bill is...more
OVERVIEW OF CARRIED INTEREST RULES Section 1061 of the Code, enacted in 2017 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, recharacterizes certain gain that would otherwise qualify as long-term capital gain with respect to...more
As I previously reported, the Washington state capital gains tax has had a turbulent ride, commencing with a rough ride through the legislative process where it almost hit disastrous terrain on at least six (6) occasions....more
On March 28, 2022, President Biden released his FY2023 budget (the “FY2023 Budget”), and the U.S. Treasury released the so-called “Green Book,” which provides details related to the revenue provisions in the FY2023 Budget....more
In 2021, Washington State Legislature passed ESSB 5096, which created a 7% tax on the sale or exchange of long-term capital assets (stocks, bonds, business interests, or other investments, and many tangible assets) if the...more
Update: on April 15, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it would temporarily (through December 31, 2021) allow Section 83(b) elections to be signed digitally or electronically, instead of requiring handwritten...more
Types of business entities - The two most common types of legal entities adopted in Argentina are the limited liability company (“Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada” or “SRL”) and the corporation (“Sociedad Anónima” or...more
We report elsewhere in this issue on Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden's (D-Ore.) proposed mark-to-market tax on billionaires. On August 5, 2021, Wyden also introduced the Modernization of Derivatives Tax Act of 2021...more
It was a relatively light Budget for the real estate sector. Highlights included the long-awaited announcement of the rate of the residential property developer tax and some reform of business rates....more