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In response to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) declaration on the Los Angeles wildfires, the IRS on Jan. 10, 2025, issued a news release, IR-2025-10, which postpones certain tax-filing and tax-payment deadlines...more
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In a previous post, we highlighted guidance released by the IRS on the topic of “relevance” and some of the implications it had in the pre-immigration planning context. More specifically, the guidance addressed issues...more