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Internal Revenue Service Debt Tax Liability

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Receiving Debt-Financed Distributions From a QOF: IRS Allows Significant Flexibility (And Some Traps)

Qualified Opportunity Funds (QOFs) offer generous tax incentives but are bound by a complicated set of rules, not to mention the complexity of Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), as QOFs are typically organized...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Internal Revenue Service Warns of “Mills” Taking Advantage of Taxpayers With Offer in Compromise (“OIC”) Program

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In a recent news release (available here), the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) warned taxpayers about promoters claiming their services are needed to resolve unpaid taxes owed to the IRS....more

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Debt or Equity? The Never-Ending Question For Closely Held Businesses

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What Was Intended? Transactions between commonly controlled, closely held businesses are often conducted in an informal manner. This is unfortunate because, in the absence of documentation, it is sometimes difficult to...more

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Applying FIRPTA to Short Sales

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State of the “Union” Did you watch the President’s state of the union address the other night? Was it as you expected? Were you hoping for something more? Were you disappointed? Did you find it informative? Maybe...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best in Law: Take Some Time with Your Minute Book

BB&K Business Attorney Brian Reider Discusses the Importance of Minute Books in the Southern California Newspaper Group - Looking back at the year, one recurring theme emerges with corporate clients and their...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Debt-Equity Dashed Expectations: Treasury and the Service Retain Onerous Section 385 Regulations

On Nov. 4, 2019, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) published final debt-equity regulations (the Final Regulations) and an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (the...more

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Shareholder Liability For Corporate Income Tax?

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Limited Liability - In general, the creditors of a corporation cannot recover the corporation’s debts from its shareholders—the shareholders enjoy the benefit of limited liability protection as a matter of state law....more

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Tax Benefit from Leveraged Partnerships Shut Down By New IRS Regulations

On October 5, 2016, the IRS and Treasury released a package of new regulations under Code sections 707 and 752 designed to curtail the use of debt to reduce tax on the contribution of appreciated assets to leveraged...more

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