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Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

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

PilieroMazza PLLC

Focus on S Corporations, Part 2: Inadvertent Termination of S Corporation Elections

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The IRS recently provided guidance addressing inadvertent terminations of S Corporation (S Corp) status based on existing provisions in corporate documents that remain after a company makes an S Corp election. This can be a...more

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Focus on S Corporations, Part 1:  Choosing the Right Entity to Meet Your Small Business Goals

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Most business owners understand the need to create an entity to operate their business. However, beyond general knowledge, many owners are unsure of when is the right time to create an entity and which type of entity makes...more

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It’s Time to Start Making Estimated Tax Payments Again California

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The IRS and the State of California provided significant relief to millions of taxpayers across our state last year extending deadlines for estimated tax deposits, as well as personal and business tax returns. It’s time to...more

Lowndes

Have a Partnership? March 15th Deadline Offers a Window of Opportunity

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Many senior housing properties are owned by limited liability companies or other entities that are taxed as partnerships for federal income tax purposes. The March 15th deadline for filing federal partnership tax returns is...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

With IRS Partnership Audits Ramping Up, Will More States Enact the MTC Model Statute?

Landmark changes in the federal income tax treatment of partnerships (including multi-member LLCs) became effective in 2018 for many more partnerships than first anticipated. As a result of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015,...more

Nilan Johnson Lewis PA

Dear Nonprofits – The IRS is Making Use of an LLC Easier

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For nonprofits and the lawyers who love them, 2020 and 2021 have been full of frustrating interactions with the IRS. Getting the IRS to acknowledge and respond to basic communications has seemed more difficult than in the...more

Allen Matkins

Your Contract Is Voidable, What Now?

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When a corporation or limited liability company fails to pay its taxes, penalties, fees or interest or file a return with the Franchise Tax Board, it will be suspended.  If the suspended corporation or LLC enters into a...more

Hutchison PLLC

What is a Profits Interest?

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Equity compensation can be different in LLCs and corporations. LLCs have the benefit of using a special equity compensation tool called a “profits interest.” Unlike a traditional stock option, which represents a right to...more

Burr & Forman

Section 199A – The Decision to Aggregate

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Under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress enacted the new Section 199A 20% profit deduction for owners of pass-through businesses, and which include Subchapter S corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, and even certain...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

LLC Operating Agreements And Partnership Agreements Should Be Amended To Address New Law

If you signed an LLC operating or partnership agreement prior to January 1, 2018, it may need to be amended to accommodate a significant new rule regarding taxation of partnerships. Effective for tax years beginning after...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

What are some of the monetary penalties and other consequences of failing to properly report my foreign real estate and other...

Depending upon how foreign real estate is owned and/or controlled, a number of different tax reporting regimes may be implicated.  Each of these has its own corresponding penalties and generally applies to United States...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

New Tax Audit Rules May Warrant Changes to LLC and Partnership Agreements

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Most partnerships and limited liability companies taxed as partnerships (collectively, "partnerships") are now in the middle of preparing their 2018 tax returns. They may notice a new line on their tax returns where they...more

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The New Section 199a 20% Profit Deduction For Pass-Thru Business Owners: Does It Apply To Rental Real Estate Activities?

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Under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress enacted a new Section 199A 20% profit deduction for owners of pass-through businesses, and which include Subchapter S corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, and even certain...more

Lowndes

Now Is The Time To Review Your Tax Provisions

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As tax season is underway, one important deadline is coming that should not be overlooked. Tax law allows for partnership and LLC agreements to be amended retroactively to the first day of the prior year, provided the...more

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The New Section 199a 20% Profit Deduction For Pass-Thru Business Owners: Employee Leasing May Help

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Under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress enacted a new Section 199A 20% profit deduction for owners of pass-through businesses, and which include Subchapter S corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, and even certain...more

Baker Donelson

Qualified Business Income Deduction Guidance Package Released

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Despite the ongoing partial government shutdown, the IRS issued four sets of guidance (the Guidance Package) on January 18 related to the new deduction for owners of pass-through entities of up to 20 percent of their...more

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The New Section 199A 20% Profit Deduction for Pass-Through Businesses: A Case Study: Court Reporters

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Congress enacted the new Section 199A 20% profit deduction for the owners of pass-through businesses, and which include Subchapter S corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, and even certain trusts. Section 199A is intended...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Employment Taxes: Reliance, “Disability” And Reasonable Cause

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“Life” Goes On- In light of all the attention given to the reams of regulations recently proposed under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), some people may be joking that tax advisers must have stopped counseling clients...more

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IRS Issues New Proposed Regulations on Section 199A 20% Deduction for Pass-Through Businesses

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The Internal Revenue Service yesterday issued its much-anticipated Proposed Regulations on the new Section 199A 20% deduction for owners of pass-through business entities. This important deduction was created under the 2017...more

Foster Garvey PC

Newly Proposed IRS Regulations Put a Monkey Wrench in Plans by Service Businesses Seeking IRC § 199A Deduction

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The Service issued proposed regulations corresponding to IRC § 199A yesterday. As discussed in a prior blog post, IRC § 199A potentially allows individuals, trusts and estates to deduct up to 20% of qualified business income...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Are You Ready for the New Partnership Audit Regime?

Katten previously alerted our readers to the changes in partnership audit rules [See Katten Advisory, "New Partnership Audit Regime Set to Take Effect in 2018, Proactive Planning Recommended," August 7, 2017]. The Internal...more

Verrill

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

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

If One Musician Plays A Wrong Note, the Entire Orchestra Now May Pay the Price -- Be Aware of New Partnership Tax Audit Rules

In 1985, the “participatory journalist” George Plimpton worked as a temporary percussionist, playing sleigh bells, triangle, bass drum, and most notably, gong, with the New York Philharmonic. During a performance, he once...more

Perkins Coie

New Three-Year Hold Requirement for Carried Interests, Updated Notice for S Corps

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New development: The IRS has issued guidance that the exception to the new 3-year hold requirement for carried interests held by “corporations” does not apply to S corporations. As previously discussed, the 2017 Tax Cuts...more

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