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Tax Considerations for Mergers and Acquisitions: Qualified Small Business Stock and its Tax Benefits

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For an active business in the post-Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) world of lower corporate tax rates, buyers and shareholders considering a future exit should always consider C corporations and the availability of potential...more

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Maximizing QSBS Benefits with Estate Planning: The Art of Stacking

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The number of taxpayers seeking the benefits of Qualified Small Business Stock (“QSBS”) has picked up steam in recent years, particularly since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) lowered the federal corporate tax rates to...more

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Leto v. United States: How a Taxpayer’s Section 1202 Exclusion Could Have Been Saved

In Leto v. United States, the taxpayer reincorporated an S corporation business into a C corporation, then the taxpayer later sold the shares in the C corporation and tried to exclude the gain from such sale under section...more

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Accidental Termination on Purpose? S Corp Ruling Could Be Huge For QSBS Owners

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Qualified Small Business Stock (“QSBS”) is arguably one of the largest “gifts” Congress has given taxpayers by excluding from a shareholder’s gross income the greater of $10 million or 10 times the shareholder’s basis in the...more

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An Overview of Section 1202 Qualified Small Business Stock

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Thinking about investing in a young, promising company? Section 1202 of the tax code offers a significant incentive for individuals to do just that....more

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Alternative Cash Management Strategies Should Not Have an Impact on Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) Status

In light of the banking crisis of 2023, many emerging growth and start-up companies have explored alternative cash management strategies, including holding cash in money market funds or investing in cash equivalents such as...more

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LLC vs. C-Corp vs. S-Corp

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Before founders can kick-start operations, bring in customers, or engage investors, they are advised to create a legal entity to pursue such milestones. Establishing a legal entity serves several key purposes: the founder can...more

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IRS Rules That an Enterprise Cloud Application Software Company Is Engaged in a Qualified Trade or Business for QSBS Purposes

On May 12, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published private letter ruling 202319013 (the PLR), which concluded that an enterprise cloud application software company is engaged in a qualified trade or business for...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Two New Private Letter Rulings Inform Code Section 1202's Qualified Trade or Business Analysis

Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code provides savvy business founders and investors an opportunity for large tax savings. In fact, if the entity and the business exit are structured correctly, upon an exit, the founders...more

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Qualified Small Business Stock: One of the Code’s Most Significant (And Often Overlooked) Tax Breaks

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Section 1202 offers a once little-known exclusion from income for gain on qualified small business stock (“QSB stock”). The provision has undergone substantial revisions over the years and came back into vogue as a result of...more

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House of Representatives 5376: Current Tax Legislation Pending in the U.S. House of Representatives

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...The federal tax laws are certainly about to change. With the need to raise revenue as a top priority for the Biden Administration, everyone is expecting dramatic changes to the Internal Revenue Code. Tax legislation is...more

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House Ways and Means Committee Releases Tax Plan

Plan focuses on eliminating certain available estate planning opportunities and increasing rates for corporations and high net worth individuals. The proposed tax plan from House Ways and Means Committee seeks to eliminate...more

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House Ways and Means Committee Proposes Reduction of QSBS Exclusion

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On September 15, 2021, the House Ways and Means Committee approved its draft tax legislation that was released on September 13, 2021, as part of the “Build Back Better” budget reconciliation program. Included in the draft...more

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“Should Five Percent Appear Too Small, Be Thankful I Don’t Take It All”: Ways and Means Committee Advances Tax Increase and Reform...

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The House Ways and Means Committee advanced key tax reform proposals on September 15 that would increase taxes for corporations and high-income individuals. Several tax reform proposals are under consideration as part of...more

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Are My Taxes Going Up? Seven Proposals to Watch from the House Ways and Means Committee’s Draft Tax Legislation

Congress has other plans for tax practitioners this fall, starting with the House Ways and Means Committee’s initial draft of major tax legislation.  The draft legislation proposes far-reaching changes to existing tax laws,...more

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Disposing Of Assets Under The Ways and Means Committee’s Proposals

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First Step- Last Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee approved that portion of the 2022 budget legislation with which it was tasked by the Congressional Budget resolution of August 24. The text of the bill...more

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House Democrats Propose to Limit Qualified Small Business Stock Tax Exemption

On September 13, 2021, Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee released proposed tax legislative text as part of a broader $3.5 trillion budget proposal. Among the proposals is a substantial limitation of the...more

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The President’s Recent Tax Proposals: What Do They Mean For Business Owners?

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A Night to Remember? Did you listen to the President’s speech last Wednesday? He addressed a joint session of Congress to pitch the Administration’s $1.8 trillion American Families Plan. Due to COVID-related...more

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The Loss Of The Favorable Capital Gain Rate, The Exclusion Of Gain under Section 1202, And The Incorporation Of The Partnership

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If the Democrats Win- Science has not established – at least to my knowledge – any correlation between the pre-election year-end activities of individual business owners, on the one hand, and election outcomes, on the...more

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Section 1202 and QSBS, an Often Overlooked Tax Benefit for Small Businesses

In the excitement of starting a new business, and during the headaches associated with growing that business, many entrepreneurs overlook important details that can have huge impacts on their finances. One large blind spot...more

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Lawyers on Tap: Tap Tips for Entity Formation and Taxation

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In this episode of Verrill Voices: Lawyers on Tap, Verrill Dana attorneys Jennifer Green and Jonathan Dunitz discuss the importance of entity formation to the overall success of a brewery business, and the differences between...more

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The Impact of Tax Reform on Private Equity and M&A Transactions

Now that the 2017 tax reform act is law, private equity and M&A professionals must grapple with its sweeping changes and reconcile the new provisions with how they do business. This On the Subject summarizes important...more

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Exclusion for Qualified Small Business Stock

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The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act, passed in December 2015, extended an often overlooked provision of the tax code with the potential to provide significant savings to small business owners and non-corporate...more

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Recent Legislation Permanently Extends Important Tax Planning Opportunity for Investors in Small Businesses

Legislation signed by President Obama on December 18, 2015, makes permanent a U.S. federal income tax exclusion from gross income of 100 percent of the gain recognized by non-corporate taxpayers on the sale or exchange of...more

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Congress Extends 100% Gain Exclusion for Small Business Stock

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Favorable tax treatment applies to certain acquisitions of qualified small business stock in 2012 and 2013 and may influence choice-of-entity decisions....more

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