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  • U.S. Real Estate Beckons to Foreign Investors in Wake of FIRPTA Revisions

    By:
    Alicea Castellanos, CPA, TEP, NP and Jack R. Brister, TEP
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    Jul 1, 2016

    Changes to U.S. tax rules that were signed into law in December have important implications for foreign entities seeking to invest in the U.S. real estate market. This includes both additional disclosure requirements and provisions that may increase the tax efficiency of certain assets.

  • A Few Words About Estate Planning and Trustee Engagements

    By:
    Ron Klein, JD, CFE
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    Jul 1, 2016

    Thirty years of protecting CPAs from malpractice risks has shown that every CPA is safer if they understand the risks they are facing. In no type of engagement is this truer than in estate planning and trustee engagements. And the reason for this is clear: hindsight!

  • Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction

    By:
    Daniel Lahage, CPA
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    Jun 1, 2016
    During every election cycle, a set of tax proposals set forth by candidates become topics for debate. Whether or not each candidate will actually be able to implement that tax policy is another question. 

  • Tax Haven, USA

    By:
    Erica Rubin, CPA, CGMA
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    Jun 1, 2016

    International tax structuring and cross border planning has always been a complex and evolving process. The massive leak at Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm responsible for setting up countless offshore companies, along with the U.S. Treasury Department’s challenge to the corporate inversion “loophole” have brought forth issues that will again challenge the status of tax havens in the global marketplace.

  • Coming to America – Love, Marriage and Immigration

    By:
    Carole M. Bass and Rebecca A. Provder
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    Jun 1, 2016

    In the 1988 hit comedy, Coming to America, Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, flees his home country to escape an arranged marriage. He comes to the United States to find his queen, a woman who will love him in spite of his vast wealth and title. Sure enough, he finds Lisa McDowell, heir to the McDowell’s Restaurant fortune.

  • Foreign Trust Reporting: Substance Over Forms? I Think Not

    By:
    Alicea Castellanos, CPA, TEP, NP and Jack R. Brister, TEP
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    Jun 1, 2016
    In a world dominated by data, the IRS’s role in data collection continues to expand. No longer is the agency’s sole focus domestic income tax reporting, collection, and enforcement; rather, today’s IRS is responsible for activity that occurs beyond U.S. borders and disseminating an array of information. 
     

  • Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 Changes Partnership Audit Rules

    By:
    Ellen S. Brody, JD, CPA, and Vivek Chandrasekhar, JD
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    May 1, 2016
    On Nov. 2, 2015, Congress enacted the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 ("BBA"), repealing the previous audit regime in effect for partnerships that had been around since the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Tax Act of 1982 ("TEFRA"). 

  • Cause Marketing: Plan Carefully to Avoid Legal and Tax Pitfalls

    By:
    Luana K. Lewis
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    May 1, 2016
    In recent years, cause marketing efforts have grown more popular with charities and their commercial marketing partners. Customer perceptions and behaviors are expected to drive the cause marketing trend even further in the future. 

  • The Panama Papers: A Reminder to Taxpayers That It’s Not Too Late to Clean Up Unreported Offshore Assets

    By:
    Bryan Skarlatos, Esq., and Michael Sardar, Esq.
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    May 1, 2016
    So far, the “Panama Papers” - as they have come to be called - have disclosed that several high-profile individuals around the world were holding foreign bank accounts and other assets through Panamanian offshore entities.

  • IRS Proposed Regulations Concerning Basis Consistency and Reporting for Property Acquired from a Decedent

    By:
    Kevin Matz, CPA, Esq., LLM
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    May 1, 2016
    On July 31, 2015, President Obama signed the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 (the “Highway Act”) into law. The Highway Act, among other things, added new provisions to IRC sections 1014(f) and 6035 concerning basis consistency and reporting for property acquired from a decedent. 
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Tax News


IRS Provides Tax Inflation Adjustments for Tax Year 2024,Internal Revenue Service

IRS Extends Popular Flexibilities Set to Expire; Electronic Signatures and Encrypted Email Enhance the Taxpayer Experience, Internal Revenue Service

IRS Announces Withdrawal Process for Employee Retention Credit Claims; Special Initiative Aimed at Helping Businesses Concerned About an Ineligible Claim Amid Aggressive Marketing, Scams, Internal Revenue Service

IRS Launches New Initiatives Using Inflation Reduction Act Funding to Ensure Large Corporations Pay Taxes Owed; Continues to Improve Service and Modernize Technology with Launch of Business Tax Account, Internal Revenue Service

IRS 2024 PTIN Renewal Period Underway for Tax Professionals, Internal Revenue Service


IRS Advances Innovative Direct File Project for 2024 Tax Season; Free IRS-Run Pilot Option Projected to be Available for Eligible Taxpayers in 13 States,Internal Revenue Service

Tax Change Affecting R&D Deductions Poses Danger to Some Smaller Businesses, The Trusted Professional

IRS Launches Business Tax Accounts and Enhances Tax Pro Accounts, The Trusted Professional

IRS Announces New Inflation Adjustments for 2023, The Trusted Professional

Yellen: U.S. Can't Sign Global Tax Treaty in Time to Prevent Levies from Other Countries, The Trusted Professional

TIGTA: Most of IRS’s Initial Inflation Reduction Act Spending Went to Taxpayer Services, The Trusted Professional

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