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Washington State Budget Triggers Higher Business, Capital Gains and Estate Taxes in 2025

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Thanks to three primary revenue bills that were signed into law earlier this year, taxes are going up in the state of Washington, in particular for large service businesses, estates and individuals earning capital gains. ...more

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IRS Updates Guidance on Section 530 and Worker Status Issues

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The Internal Revenue Service has released new guidance, Rev. Rul. 2025-3, clarifying the application of Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978, Section 3509 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), and Section 7436 of the IRC in...more

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IRS, State of California Offer Tax Relief for Wildfire-Impacted Taxpayers in Los Angeles County

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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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IRS and California Provide Tax Relief for LA County Residents and Businesses

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The IRS on Friday, January 10, 2025 extended tax payment and filing deadlines to October 15, 2025 for Los Angeles County individuals and businesses because of the recent fires. The California Governor’s office followed suit...more

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IRS Tax Relief for Southern California Wildfire Victims

In light of the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, we want to take a moment to express our deep concern for all those affected by this devastating disaster. Our thoughts are with everyone impacted by the fires....more

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Understanding New York State's STAR Program

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New York State offers the School Tax Relief (STAR) program to provide a bit of property tax relief to eligible homeowners. ...more

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Spousal Relief From Joint Tax Liability

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As a general rule, when a married couple files a joint tax return, they are jointly and severally liable for the entire tax. But what happens if one spouse failed to report income and the other spouse did not know or have...more

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Understanding New York State’s STAR Program

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New York State offers the School Tax Relief (STAR) program to provide a bit of property tax relief to eligible homeowners. First, who is eligible? The basic STAR program requires that you own your home, that it is your...more

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Mixed Opinions on Penalty Relief for Corporate AMT Taxpayers

On April 15, the IRS released Notice 2024-33 (the “Notice”), offering limited relief from tax penalties for underpaying estimated income taxes arising from a corporation’s alternative minimum tax (“AMT”). The AMT imposes a...more

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[Webinar] Tax Considerations for Foreign Rental Property: Holding Structures, Reporting Rental Income and Expenses, FTCs - March...

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This course will discuss the considerations and caveats of U.S. residents owning foreign rental property. Our seasoned panel of international tax experts will explore U.S. and foreign holding structures, residential and...more

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Too Good To Last? IRS Halts Processing of ERC Claims

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While not as well-known as the Paycheck Protection Program, the Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) program was another form of Covid relief provided by the federal government to businesses in 2020 and 2021. The ERC program...more

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IRS Imposes Immediate Moratorium on Employee Retention Credit (ERC) Claims

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For some time, the IRS has cautioned taxpayers about filing false or fraudulent ERC claims.  More recently, on September 14, 2023, the IRS issued a News Release, IR-2023-169, indicating that it would no longer process ERC...more

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Koniec stanu zagrożenia epidemicznego, czyli kolejne zmiany terminów podatkowych

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Zgodnie z projektem Rozporządzenia Ministra Zdrowia opublikowanym 2 maja na stronach Rządowego Centrum Legislacji, 1 lipca 2023 r. stan zagrożenia epidemiologicznego ma zostać odwołany. Projekt skierowano do uzgodnień i...more

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End of the state of epidemic emergency - changes to the tax deadlines

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According to the draft Decree of the Minister of Health published on 2 May on the Government Legislation Centre’s website, the state of epidemic emergency is scheduled to be terminated on 1 July 2023. The draft has been sent...more

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IRS Releases Long-Awaited Spending Plan for $80 Billion in New Inflation Reduction Act Funding

On Thursday, April 6, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued their long-term Strategic Operating Plan (SOP), outlining how the IRS intends to spend $79.4 billion in funding provided by the Inflation...more

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Rhode Island Businesses Could Soon Receive Tax Relief

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Rhode Island Senate leadership is backing legislation that would exempt the first $100,000 of tangible property from property taxation by municipalities. The tangible tax is currently levied on businesses for property other...more

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Federal and California Taxpayer Relief: Reprieve From Wet Winter Weather

2023 started California off with weather that escapes recent memory. Rain, snow, and surf seemed unrelenting for the first two weeks of January. While this spell of winter storms has brought snow to our slopes and refilled...more

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Tax Court in Brief | Collins v. Comm’r | Innocent Spouse Requests a Refund for Which He Did Not Pay; Denied

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Tax Litigation: The Week of September 26th, 2022, through September 30th, 2022 Patitz, Moody v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-99 | September 27, 2022 | Weiler, J. | Dkt. No. 2784-19 Powell and Iakovenko v. Comm’r, T.C. Summary...more

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Burlington Loan Management DAC: Treaty Shopping Provisions Did Not Apply

The UK’s First-tier Tribunal recently held that the payment of interest received by Burlington Loan Management DAC (“BLM”) (an Irish tax resident company) was not to be denied the benefits of the relief afforded under the...more

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Good News: IRS Grants $1.2 Billion in Penalty Relief for Taxpayers Impacted by Covid-19

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The senior living industry was hit hard by the Covid-19, and the IRS recently announced relief for people or businesses who filed their 2019 or 2020 tax returns late as a result. If your business was subject to failure to...more

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Actions (and Inactions) Matter with Innocent Spouse Relief—Jones v. Commissioner

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A taxpayer may request innocent spouse relief from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) in the form of equitable relief—I.R.C. § 6015(f). Among its threshold conditions, Section 6015(f) generally requires an evaluation of...more

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Innocent Spouse Relief Explained: Tax Relief for Spouses

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A topic that we frequently see in the Tax Clinic that I run, one that is often misunderstood, is that of innocent spouse relief. Generally, the purpose of providing innocent spouse relief is to, as one court put it: ...more

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A Missed Tax Election: Section 9100 Relief Gives a Second Chance

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It’s a common scenario: A taxpayer misses the deadline to file an election with the IRS. What options does the taxpayer have now? I have helped many clients out of this jam, and it is a situation that often presents several...more

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Eleven of the IRS's Enforcement Priorities During the 2021 Tax Season

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It is tax season once again. While the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has extended this year’s filing deadline to May 17, 2021 for individuals, businesses must still file by April 15, and all U.S. taxpayers must ensure that...more

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Michigan Individual Tax Deadline Automatically Extended to May 17

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Through the issuance of a Notice posted to its website, The Michigan Department of Treasury (the “Department”) has extended the deadline for individual taxpayers to both file the applicable 2020 income tax return (e.g., Form...more

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