Posted on September 23, 2025
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Heath Standorf
As family principals continue to grow their businesses and their wealth, they often establish family offices to centralize and streamline the administration and management of their lives, including financial and non-financial assets. Initially, business owners may entrust these duties to their corporate finance teams. However, there comes a point when more time and specialized skills […]
Posted on February 20, 2025
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Maxwell Jewell
In this episode Associate Director of Tax Services Max Jewell, CPA, MST, shares workaround strategies for navigating the PTET limits.
One of the most vexing problems encountered by growing companies is the identification and management of “underminers” who lurk silently in the shadows, sowing discontent and dissatisfaction that creates a negative drag on the business culture. Sometimes referred to as “bad apples” or “negative nellies,” these individuals engender pessimism, anxiety and insecurity among teammates in […]
Posted on November 26, 2024
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Sandi Perez
On July 1, 2024, the State of Florida added Fla. Sta. §61.075(6)(a)1.f, which specifies how trial courts value a marital interest in closely held businesses for the purposes of equitable distribution in divorce proceedings. Significantly, the new law, also referred to as House Bill 521 (HB521), addresses the valuation of marital interests in closely held […]
Posted on November 05, 2024
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Daniel Hughes
UPDATED – On March 2, 2025, the Department of Treasury announced CTA will be narrowed to only foreign reporting companies. UPDATED – On December 3, 2024, a federal court in Texas ruled that the CTA is likely unconstitutional and prohibited its enforcement. This set off a review, injunction and follow-up hearing date in March […]
Posted on August 23, 2024
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Joel Young
UPDATED – On March 2, 2025, the Department of Treasury announced CTA will be narrowed to only foreign reporting companies. UPDATED – On December 3, 2024, a federal court in Texas ruled that the CTA is likely unconstitutional and prohibited its enforcement. This set off a review, injunction and follow-up hearing date in March […]
Posted on May 14, 2024
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Adam Cohen
Earlier this year, the IRS introduced Rev. Proc. 2024-5, which requires public charities organized as 501(c)(3)s to follow new procedures when requesting IRS reclassification as a different tax-exempt entity. Nonprofit entities seeking tax-exempt status generally must file Form 1023, Application for Recognition of Exemption Under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, within 27 months […]
Posted on March 05, 2024
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Adam Cohen
The clock is ticking for nonprofit entities, including private foundations, to file annual returns on Form 990 before the May 15 deadline for calendar-year filers. Failure to file or request an automatic six-month extension can jeopardize an organization’s tax-exempt status and result in significant penalties. IRS series Forms 990 are informational documents that most non-profits […]
Posted on February 26, 2024
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Heath Standorf
Beginning in the 19th century, some of the U.S.’s wealthiest industrialists quietly abandoned Wall Street banks to hire their own teams of experts to discreetly manage, preserve and grow their business operations and family wealth for future generations. Today, these family offices have moved beyond the shadows of the Rockefellers, Morgans and Vanderbilts and expanded […]
Posted on December 07, 2023
In this episode Associate Director of Tax Services Sarah Gaymon shares strategies for high-net-worth families to be sure they don’t miss out on sunsetting tax provisions.
