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One Big Beautiful Bill Act, H.R. 1 – 119th Congress (2025-2026): Part V – Qualified Small Business Stock Exclusion / Code Section...

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In this fifth installment of my multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Steve Nofziger and I discuss a provision of the Act that impacts certain business owners who are contemplating a sale of their shares, Code...more

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Taxes and the 2024 Election: ‘Tis the Season to Plan and Act

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This is The End- I have dreaded the year end for as long as I can remember. As a teenager and then as a young adult I associated the final quarter of the year, and especially the period beginning on Thanksgiving and...more

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Sale of Mortgaged Property – Amount Realized or COD Income

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Do you feel as challenged as I do when someone asks you to explain the term “Bidenomics”? I know that it is predicated upon the imposition of higher taxes on businesses and their owners, which have not yet materialized....more

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IRS and California Tax Issues Associated with Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs

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What is a Non-Fungible Token or NFT and what are the IRS and California tax issues associated with Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs which might apply to you?  NFTs are unique tokens based in and recorded within a blockchain that...more

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State Taxation of Qualified Small Business Stock: Federal Tax Exclusion Not Always Replicated at State Level

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In the event of an M&A transaction, many stockholders plan to take advantage of the exclusion from federal taxable income of gain realized from the sale or exchange of “qualified small business stock” (QSB stock). Section...more

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Tax Losses Realized During the Crypto Winter

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Debacle- Understanding the etymology of a word often enables us to better understand or appreciate its use in contemporary speech. For example, the word “crypto” is derived from the Greek word “krypto,” which describes...more

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Tax Considerations for Your Brewery When Accepting Payment Via Cryptocurrency

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Brewers and other small businesses who accept cryptocurrency as payment for customer goods must be aware of the tax implications of such payments in cryptocurrency. According to IRS Notice 2014-21, cryptocurrency is...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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Impact of House Ways and Means Tax Proposals for Trusts, Estates, and Retirement Accounts

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In this second blog post on the House Ways and Means Tax proposals, we address the proposed changes that will affect the taxation of trusts, estates, and retirement plans. As we discussed, on September 13, 2021, the...more

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Cash In Hand, Tax Deferral, Monetized Installment Sales: No, You Can’t Have It All

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Ask the owner of a closely held business to describe their most recently recurring nightmare and you are likely to get an earful regarding the prospect of an increased federal income tax on their profits, an increased federal...more

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Weekly IRS Roundup December 16 – 20, 2019

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of December 16 – 20, 2019. December 16, 2019: The IRS released a notice extending the phase-in...more

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The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be: New Tax Guidance Issued for Cryptocurrencies

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The IRS has published a Revenue Ruling and FAQs clarifying some long-standing virtual currency questions. On October 9, 2019, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued its first guidance on the tax treatment of...more

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Investing In Qualified Opportunity Funds

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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed on Dec. 22, 2017, amended the tax code to encourage economic growth and investment in designated distressed communities, called qualified opportunity zones, by providing federal income tax...more

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Overlooked opportunities? State tax considerations relating to investments in federal qualified opportunity zones

The year 2018 has been a monumental one for the state and local tax community. If the sweeping changes to the US federal tax code made by the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) and continued efforts by the states to...more

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The Year of Bitcoin: Gains Subject to Tax by the IRS

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The year 2017 could be described as the year of the Bitcoin and other “virtual currencies,” with Bitcoin having appreciated 1800% since the beginning of the year and Ethereum, at one point, having appreciated 8,000% since the...more

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The US Tax Court Rejects IRS Position That Non-US Partners Are Taxed on Sales of Partnership Interests

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The US Tax Court earlier this month issued a decision that rejected a 25-year old IRS Revenue Ruling and held that gain from the sale or other disposition by a non-US person of an interest in a partnership that is engaged in...more

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