Corporate Taxes, IRS, Closely Held Businesses

Writing Off A Loan – Simultaneous COD Income and Bad Debt Deduction? Not Necessarily

Rivkin Radler LLP on 6/23/2025

If you’ve been around closely held businesses long enough, you know that a transfer of money between a business and its owner, or between two related businesses, is sometimes characterized by the parties as a loan (“related...more

Shareholder-Transferee Liability for a Corporation’s Income Tax

Rivkin Radler LLP on 2/15/2024

Would you be surprised to learn that most shareholders of closely held corporations, and especially those with minority or merely passive interests, believe they cannot be held responsible for the tax obligations of their...more

Constructive Dividends and The Closely Held C Corporation

Rivkin Radler LLP on 3/21/2022

Withdrawing Value- Any tax adviser who has represented closely held businesses and their owners long enough realizes there are certain recurring themes that transcend the otherwise unique characteristics of the industry of...more

Partners, S Corp. Shareholders And Biden’s 2022 Revenue Proposal: No More Business As Usual

Rivkin Radler LLP on 6/14/2021

What A Ride- No one anticipated that the Administration’s proposed tax increases would fly through Congress easily – at least no one residing in a state in which the recreational use of marijuana has not been legalized....more

The Biden Administration’s Revenue Proposals For Fiscal Year 2022: Tax Increases And Forced Recognition Of Capital Gains

Rivkin Radler LLP on 6/2/2021

Extra, Extra!- Last Friday afternoon, as millions of unsuspecting Americans prepared for the long Memorial Day weekend – for many, perhaps, their first mask-less holiday celebration in almost 15 months – the Biden...more

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

Rivkin Radler LLP on 5/3/2021

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

New York’s Post-Election Tax Environment For Business Owners

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 11/16/2020

Something Is Rotten- There’s a gray pall hanging over New York that has clouded the judgement of many politicians, and has left many of its residents feeling anxious and off-balance. No, it’s not the smoke from all the...more

Responding To The Democratic Party’s Tax Plans

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 8/24/2020

The Convention- The Democratic Party’s “virtual” convention last week seems to have gone pretty well. All the stars of the Party’s firmament were on hand and spoke in “virtually” one voice in their assessment of the...more

Biden’s Tax Proposals For Capital Gain, Like Kind Exchanges, Basis Step-Up & The Estate Tax – Tough Times Ahead?

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 8/17/2020

“The board is set. The pieces are moving. We come to it at last.” With these words, Gandalf the White acknowledged that the decisive battle for control over Middle Earth had been joined. So it is now for the U.S....more

Debt . . . Worthless Debt . . . No Debt At All?

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 5/29/2018

It is said that repetition is the mother of all learning. It is also said that insanity is repeating the same mistake and expecting a different result. It is my hope that the result of the former will overwhelm the source of...more

Are you paying your children too much to work in the family business? The IRS might think so.

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 3/16/2017

A United States Tax Court recently issued a decision after trial that should serve as a reminder to management and controlling shareholders of family-owned businesses that salaries or other compensation paid to family-member...more

Reporting A Closely Held U.S. Corporation’s Overseas Activities

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 2/14/2017

We have heard a lot about large, publicly-traded U.S. corporations that have parked trillions of dollars overseas to avoid the payment of U.S. income tax. We have heard how the tax system must be seriously broken to have so...more

Loans Between Related Entities

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 1/18/2017

What Was Intended? Over the last thirty years, I have reviewed the income tax returns of many closely held corporations and partnerships. Quite often, on Schedule L (the balance sheet), I will see an entry for “other...more

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