Ever since New York decoupled from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in the 2020/21 Budget Act, tax practitioners have been asking how one reports a taxpayer’s income as required under the decoupling. This confusion arose because when the decoupling was enacted, no new Tax Law §§ 612(b) additions & 612(c) subtractions were enacted. However on Forms IT-201, IT-203, IT-204 and IT-205, taxpayers are still required to list the taxable items that comprise their taxable Federal adjusted gross income (AGI). Due to the decoupling from the CARES Act, these items may not be the same for New York.

There are many factors that set the cannabis industry apart from other business sectors–chief among them, the unique tax treatment that puts cannabis business owners at a distinct financial disadvantage to their counterparts in other industries.

Bitcoin was first introduced to the world in 2009 after the global economic crisis. Bitcoin developers wanted to empower individuals to initiate online transactions that are anonymous, fast, irreversible, secure, and without the involvement of a third party. Although Bitcoin was not created to condone malicious conduct, fraudsters often use cryptocurrency because of its semi-anonymous nature.

As the realities of COVID-19 are setting in, telecommuting arrangements have emerged as part of the new normal. A recent study found that the vast majority of employers plan to allow their employees to work remotely at least part-time and nearly half will allow this full-time going forward. Remote workers utilizing new work locations can trigger state-level income tax consequences, which may include two states seeking to tax the same income.

The IRS recently issued final and proposed IRC section 951A regulations relating to the treatment of “high-taxed” global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI), introduced in 2017 by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). This latest guidance is welcome news to many U.S. investors, who may now make annual elections to exclude high-taxed GILTI from their gross income — both going forward and retroactively to 2018.

On September 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) and the IRS released final regulations on the deduction of administration expenses of estates and non-grantor trusts under sections 67(e) and (g), and on the treatment of excess deductions in the final year of the estate or non-grantor trust under section 642(h) (the “final regulations”).