Posted on February 23, 2022
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Jeffrey Mutnik
When establishing a trust, grantors must take special care to ensure trust documents clearly communicate how they intend the trust and its assets be treated for income-tax purposes. While there are a variety of different types of trusts with assorted names and features to meet an equally broad range of needs and goals, one of […]
Posted on February 01, 2022
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Jeffrey Mutnik
The IRS began accepting individuals’ 2021 federal income tax returns on January 24, marking the beginning of the 2022 tax filing season. For this year, taxpayers will have an additional three to four days to meet the filing deadline, known as Tax Day, which typically falls on April 15. In 2022, Tax Day falls on […]
Posted on February 25, 2021
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Jeffrey Mutnik
Rarely do taxpayers have an opportunity to reduce their taxable income and related tax liabilities in a given year after the clock strikes midnight on December 31. This is not the case for certain trusts, which the IRS grants an additional 65 days after year-end to distribute income to beneficiaries and treat it as if […]
Posted on April 05, 2020
On Friday, April 3 we hosted a webinar for executives of non-profit organizations to help them navigate the PPP. Here is a link to the recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS_5dCL0ai8&feature=youtu.be
On March 18, President Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), offering much needed relief to many American families and businesses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the provisions included in this second package of aid are the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (“The Paid Sick Leave”) and the Emergency […]
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 […]
The Florida Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion on May 23, 2019, reversing its decision seven months earlier in Delisle v. Crane, (Case No. SC16-2182) concerning Florida Statute Section 90.702 and the admissibility of expert witness testimony in the state. The court made a complete about face, rejecting the less rigorous Frye standard established […]
Posted on January 18, 2018
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Adam Cohen
Despite a repeal of the individual insurance mandate that is included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2018, U.S. taxpayers will still need to meet their 2017 Affordable Care Act reporting requirements on the tax returns they file this April. However, the IRS has reversed its earlier […]
