Posted on September 16, 2019
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Michael Hirsch
Under new guidelines issued by the Florida legislature, corporate income and franchise tax filers in the state have an additional information-reporting requirement for taxable years beginning during the 2018 and 2019 calendar years. To avoid a late-reporting penalty equal to the greater of $1,000 or 1 percent of the tax due, taxpayers that already filed […]
Posted on September 12, 2019
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Daniel Hughes
Representations and warranties insurance (RWI) is becoming an increasingly common and required tool to expedite M&A transactions, bridge gaps in deal negotiations and reduce buyers’ and sellers’ risks of financial losses after deals close. At the most basic level, representations are the assertions sellers make about their companies, those entities’ financial positions and past and […]
Posted on September 04, 2019
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John Ebenger
Savvy investors know that holding real estate in their individual names is a bad idea that exposes them to a broad range of legal risks and personal financial liabilities. Instead, U.S. tax laws permit investors to structure their real estate holdings into separate business entities, such as partnerships, limited liability companies (LLCs) and corporations, which […]
Posted on August 29, 2019
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Daniel Hughes
As Hurricane Dorian menaces the Florida coast, it is not too late for businesses to prepare for the threat of a potential disaster that can interrupt normal businesses operations and cause millions of dollars in damages and lost revenue. Following are just a few things that businesses should consider as part of a well-thought-out disaster-preparedness […]
Posted on August 27, 2019
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Angie Adames
Under a Revenue Procedure recently issued by the IRS, eligible partnerships that made errors on their timely filed 2018 federal tax returns in March of 2019, for which no extensions were filed, may have a small window of opportunity to file superseding Forms 1065 and Schedules K-1 to partners by Sept. 15, 2019. Taxpayers eligible […]
Posted on August 22, 2019
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Andrew Leonard
The overhaul of the U.S. tax code was signed into law at the end of 2017, yet many taxpayers are continuing to conduct business as usual, paying little attention to how the new law impacts their tax liabilities for 2018 and beyond. To be sure, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in its original […]
Posted on August 12, 2019
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Joanie Stein
If you are among the more than 145 million people whose personal information was compromised in the Equifax data breach that occurred in 2017, you may now be entitled to compensation as part of the credit bureau’s nearly $700 million settlement with the government. However, before you file a claim or try to figure out […]
Posted on July 09, 2019
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Karen Lake
The IRS has officially shut down any plans that high-tax states had introduced to help their residents circumvent the new tax law’s $10,000 cap on deductions for state and local taxes (SALT). According to final guidance issued by the IRS on June 11, 2019, taxpayers are prohibited from receiving federal tax deductions for the full […]
Posted on June 19, 2019
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Karen Lake
The Florida legislature recently passed a $91.1 billion budget for 2019 that provides some significant wins for individuals and business taxpayers located in the state while failing to address the remote and online sales tax collection issue created by the Supreme Court’s June 2018 decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair. Here are the details. Reduced […]
