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Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The Fraud That Is Matt Hutcheson

I’ve been in the retirement plan business for 27 years, and during that time, I’ve seen the best and the worst it has to offer. But without a doubt, the most despicable person I’ve encountered is Matt Hutcheson. Matt paraded...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Big Changes to Washington State Department of Revenue’s Voluntary Disclosure Agreement (VDA) Program

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At last week’s Washington State Tax Forum, the Washington Department of Revenue announced, in a presentation led by Ballard Spahr’s Aaron Johnson, that the Department is making significant and meaningful changes to its...more

Frost Brown Todd

Section 1202 and QSBS: A Survey of States That Don’t Conform to the Federal Treatment

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Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code provides a capital gains exclusion for certain qualified small business stock (QSBS) when a stockholder sells the same. This gain exclusion impacts venture-backed startups, angel...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

France’s Digital Services Tax Faces Constitutional Crossroads

In a significant development for multinational companies operating in the digital space, France’s Supreme Administrative Court (Conseil d’État) has referred the country’s Digital Services Tax (DST) regime to the...more

Jackson Walker

Income Tax Changes Warrant Consideration When Awarding Equity Incentives

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Tax law is an interrelated web of complex rules, and changes in one rule can impact compensation strategies for management and executives even if the change is to individual income tax calculation rules. Executives should...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

IRS Modifies List of Taxable Chemical Substances to Include 21 Chemicals

On August 4, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published a notice of determinations that modifies the list of taxable substances to include the following 21 substances: polyphenylene sulfide, cellulose acetate (degree...more

ASKramer Law

Tax-Loss Harvesting Part III: Investment Strategies

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Taxpayers invest to make money and hope to earn a decent return on their investments. Tax-loss harvesting can be used as part of a taxpayer’s overall investment strategy without affecting investment  returns, while offsetting...more

Cozen O'Connor

When Is Equal Property Division Unfair in BC? Court of Appeal Offers New Guidance

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The BC Court of Appeal decision in Dignard v Dignard, 2025 BCCA 43, gave clarity as to what considerations are needed when deciding whether an equal division of property would result in significant unfairness. The Court...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Civil Tax Fraud: Should 75 Percent Appear Too Small, Be Thankful the IRS Doesn’t Take It All

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Mistakes happen, including when it comes to reporting and paying taxes. And for taxpayers and their advisors, those mistakes can lead to costly consequences, as the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) allows the Internal Revenue...more

Butler Snow LLP

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act and Its Potential Business Impact

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On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBB”) into law. While technically a budget reconciliation law, the OBBB is a significant piece of legislation that prioritizes this...more

Littler

Recent U.S. Tax Court Opinion Illustrates How Language in Settlement Agreements Can Determine Tax Treatment of Payments

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In Mennemeyer v. Commissioner,1 the United States Tax Court reminds us that a settlement agreement that is not carefully drafted can have significant tax consequences....more

Dickinson Wright

Tax Planning Misstep? Ontario Court of Appeal Says No to Rectification

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A recent decision from the Ontario Court of Appeal is a good reminder that courts won’t bail you out just because a tax plan didn’t go as expected. In Pyxis Real Estate Equities Inc. v. Canada, 2025 ONCA 65, the Court made it...more

Mayer Brown

Tax on Financial Transactions (IOF): Preliminary Injunction of STF Reinstates Decree No. 12,499/2025 and Suspends the Levy of Tax...

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On May 22, 2025, Decree No. 12,466 was published, increasing the tax rates of Tax on Financial Transactions (“IOF”) levied on multiple operations of insurance, credit and exchange, especially the ones related to (i) credits...more

Haynes Boone

Federal Estate, Gift and GST Tax Highlights from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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The recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) brings sweeping and permanent changes to the federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax landscape. Most notably, it significantly increases the...more

Kilpatrick

The Illinois Franchise Tax: A Four-Part Series

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This four-part series of articles is intended to provide a deep dive into the Illinois State Franchise Tax (the “Franchise Tax”) and should be read sequentially to be best understood....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Death and Taxes Should not be Certainties for the Patent System

The Department of Commerce has floated a proposal to tax U.S. patent holdings as a means of reducing the national debt, as outlined in a recent Wall Street Journal article. It is a bad idea that reflects a troubling...more

Hone Maxwell

Understanding the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: GILTI Becomes Net CFC Tested Income (NCTI)

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Overview: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) renamed Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI) to Net CFC Tested Income (NCTI), focusing on income earned by Controlled Foreign Corporations (CFCs). While the name change is...more

Kilpatrick

5 Key Takeaways: Business and Nonbusiness Income

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Kilpatrick’s Jordan Goodman recently co-presented the session “Income Subject to Allocation” at the Institute for Professionals in Taxation’s “2025 State Income Tax School” in Atlanta. Jordan addressed the distinction between...more

Genova Burns LLC

Amendments to New Jersey's Mansion Tax and Controlling Interest Transfer Tax

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As of July 10, 2025, the Mansion Tax and Controlling Interest Transfer Tax (“CITT”) now requires sellers of certain classes of real property (and controlling interest involving certain classes of real property) transferred...more

Pullman & Comley - For What It May Be Worth

Understanding the New Approach to Motor Vehicle Valuations by Connecticut Assessors

Motor vehicle assessment in Connecticut is a two-step process. Your municipality’s assessor determines the value of your vehicle, and then multiplies that value by the 70% assessment ratio to arrive at your motor vehicle...more

ASKramer Law

Tax-Loss Harvesting Part II: The Wash Sales Rule

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At the beginning of this series, I mentioned briefly that taxpayers can use tax-loss harvesting approaches in tandem with a number of investment strategies, which we will go into in more detail in Part III. Many of these...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The One Big Beautiful Bill: Top Tax Takeaways for Nonprofits

President Trump’s sweeping package of domestic legislation, H.R. 1 (originally titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBB”)), became law on July 4, 2025. In addition to dramatically reshaping the landscape for...more

DLA Piper

What the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Tax Provisions Mean for Businesses Operating in Puerto Rico

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President Donald Trump recently signed into law the bill commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). On July 4, 2025, the OBBBA made permanent many of the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA)...more

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints

409A Risks with Relocation Reimbursements

As employers increasingly focus on in-person office mandates, reimbursements for relocation expenses have once again become a key component of attracting top talent. If not carefully structured, however, such expense...more

Morgan Lewis

No Gift Tax on Increases in the Value of Shares in the Case of Shareholder-Allocated Contributions

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In a proceeding for suspension of enforcement, the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH) has concluded that also disproportionate contributions into the capital reserve do not constitute a gift tax-relevant increase in the value of...more

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