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Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP

Asset Protection 101 for New York Restaurant Owners with Real Estate Interests

Owning and operating a restaurant in New York comes with significant financial and legal responsibilities—especially when real estate is part of your investment portfolio. As a restaurant owner, you face unique risks that can...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

ESOPs for Cannabis Companies

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Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) have been used as a business succession strategy by employers across many industries. In the cannabis industry, ESOPs have come and gone and come again as a trendy topic promising to fix...more

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“S” Corp? Law Change May Make an ESOP More Appealing

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The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) made numerous changes to the complex web that makes up U.S. retirement plan laws. Of interest to S corporations that may be considering an employee stock ownership plan (“ESOP”) is...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

The Family Business – Compensating Family-Employees

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Hope you had a good Thanksgiving Holiday. Some of us probably feel we ate or drank either too much or not enough, watched too much or not enough football, or spent too much time discussing politics and the state of the...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Is Your ESOP Ready for the Spotlight?

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Last week, the IRS announced it was increasing enforcement strategies aimed at Employee Stock Ownership Plans “ESOPs”. The IRS stated this new focus on ESOPs is part of the effort to ensure tax laws are applied fairly and...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Study Results Reinforce the Benefits of ESOPs

Working with Employee-Owned S Corporations of America (ESCA), the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) recently took a closer look at the impact the pandemic had on ESOPs. ...more

Williams Mullen

ESOP Essentials: Can My Company Offer An ESOP? Selected Tax Guidance on Choice of Entity, Business Structure and ESOPs

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An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is a type of tax-qualified retirement plan. ESOPs are designed to invest primarily in qualifying employer securities, as defined in applicable tax rules....more

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The Accidental Entrepreneur – Part IV – Creating the Family Pension Plan

I have been pontificating ad nauseam some readers might say, on the benefits of structuring a family business and investment holdings in my recommended version of the ideal corporate set up. My recommended structure is the...more

White and Williams LLP

You Have Questions…SBA Releases PPP Loan Forgiveness FAQs

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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), recently released a series of Frequently Asked Questions (the Forgiveness FAQs) focusing on forgiveness of...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

A Matter of Trusts: Tenth Circuit to Decide Important ESOP Case

The ESOP industry is paying close attention to a Tenth Circuit appeal that will address the deferral of corporate deductions for certain accrued expenses payable to ESOP-participating employees. This appeal, which pertains to...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Commission Payments to IC-DISC Recharacterized as Non-Deductible Dividends

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In Summa Holdings, Inc. v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2015-119, the Tax Court recharacterized an exporter’s deductible commission payments made to an IC-DISC as non-deductible dividend payments to the exporter’s shareholders...more

Baker Donelson

ESOPs: The Tax Law Provides a Buyer for Your Business

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As baby boomer business owners begin to retire, many will want to monetize the value they have created in their businesses. An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is one alternative. The ESOP alternative, authorized by the...more

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State of the Union - Part 2: Retirement with a Capital R

Overview - Since my last article, I have received some hate mail. Well, not quite literally unless I count the note from Mrs. Nowotny asking me why I forgot half of the items on the grocery list. A number of readers...more

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