10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 9, 2025
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Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 242: Business Planning in Healthcare & Life Sciences with Jennifer McEwen of Maynard Nexsen
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Everything Compliance: Episode 156, To Document or Not Edition
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 156
Sunday Book Review: June 15, 2025. The Books on Corporate Governance Edition
Corporate Divorce – Preventing and Managing the Break-Up of a Business Partnership
Compliance into the Weeds: Of Wal-Mart, Tariffs and Stakeholder Capitalism
Sunday Book Review: April 27, 2025, The Books on Business for May Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 24, 2025, The Made in Malaysia Edition
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Wolf Greenfield’s New Shareholders
Navigating Disputes Within Your Health Care Practice
When a co-shareholder purchases the debt obligations of the company without partners' knowledge
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JONES DAY TALKS®: Five Pillars of Series A Shareholder Rights: A Discussion for VC Investors
“Monsters, Inc.” y el buen gobierno corporativo
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Dividends from shares are taxable for shareholders, even if the dividends do not remain with them economically. This (not entirely new) finding can be gleaned from a recent Federal Fiscal Court (BFH) ruling in which the...more
Last month, Bloomberg carried an article about a “small but growing trend” of states that are either cutting their individual income taxes or phasing them out entirely. According to the article, the states adopting these...more
The Massachusetts Court of Appeals has ruled that, in some situations, a former resident of the Commonwealth can be liable for Massachusetts income tax on the sale of shares in a Massachusetts-headquartered company even after...more
Dans un arrêt du 6 mars 2025, la Cour administrative d'appel de Bordeaux s'est prononcée sur la méthode mathématique d'évaluation de titres de SCI utilisée par l'administration, ainsi que sur la caractérisation d'une...more
The Knesset Finance Committee approved a draft bill for second and third readings to ease the conditions for tax relief during corporate restructuring. The bill was first published in the initial draft bill within the tax...more
Le projet de loi de finances pour 2025 tel que modifié le 31 janvier 2025 en commission mixte paritaire et adopté via la procédure de l’article 49-3 de la Constitution (le « PLF 2025 ») introduit un régime spécifique aux...more
Disagreements happen. In the corporate context, one or more shareholders may share a different vision for the company than the other shareholders. Or, there may be acrimony amongst the shareholders for other reasons, as can...more
In the S corporation arena, tax advisors generally do not focus much attention on unreasonable compensation. As we delve into the issue in this Part VII of my multi-part series on Subchapter S, it will become apparent that...more
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
Don’t Do It- There are certain generally accepted “dos and don’ts” of which almost every investor is certainly aware. For example, do not put all your eggs in one basket; if an investment seems too good to be true, stay...more
Takeaways - Tax law changes in the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) would limit the amount of value a company could extract in a spin-off by using a debt-for-debt exchange. Companies may be able to achieve most of the...more
Corporate Rate Increase? We begin this week with the Senate having passed the President’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief and economic stimulus plan (the “American Rescue Plan” following a marathon session during which...more
• The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Act), signed into law on Dec. 22, 2017, made significant changes to the manner in which U.S. corporate and individual taxpayers are taxed on income from international operations. • The Tax...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act introduced an important new benefit to US corporations that own 10 percent or more of a foreign corporation. Specifically, a full participation exemption has been enacted that exempts certain foreign...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Tax Act”) modifies Section 965 of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) by expanding the definition of “subpart F income” of United States shareholders (“U.S. shareholder”) for the last tax...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) includes a provision requiring U.S. Shareholder Taxpayers that own 10% or more of a Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) and other “Specified Foreign Corporations” to pay a “transition tax”...more
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The “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (the “Act") has a provision requiring U.S. Shareholder Taxpayers that own 10% or more of a Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) and other “Specified Foreign Corporations” to pay a “transition tax”....more
“When will they ever learn?”- No, I am not channeling Seeger. I am referring to those individuals[i] who continue to acquire real property (“RP”) in, or who contribute RP to, corporations. In just the last couple of...more
Companies in business rescue often have built-up assessed losses for tax purposes. Competitors wishing to take over the business of the company in business rescue would often view such assessed loss as a valuable asset, in...more
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
The case of Salus Mundi Foundation et al v. Commissioner - On August 15, 2016, the Tax Court decided in Salus Mundi Foundation et al v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2016-154, that two foundations were liable as transferees...more
When a business is sold, both the buyer and the seller endeavor to walk away with as much cash on hand as possible. The seller hopes to reap the rewards of years of hard work; the buyer hopes to secure enough cash to...more
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