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Read more →Congressional and administrative proposals are failing to address the underlying incentives driving inversions and therefore, putting 42,000 U.S. jobs at risk of going overseas, according to new research from the American Action Forum (AAF), a center-right think tank. The AAF study, released on September 4, also found
Read more →The Tax Court has denied basis to individuals who contributed unfunded, unsecured notes to a partnership and claimed basis for the amounts on the notes. As a result, the partners’ bases in their partnership interests were too low for them to claim greater pass-through losses on their
Read more →IRS Chief Counsel (CCA 201436049) has concluded that so-called limited partners of an investment management firm were not limited partners of the firm (a limited liability company (LLC) treated as a partnership) and were being paid compensation for services. Therefore, the amounts they received from the firm
Read more →The Internal Revenue Service is diligently working to stop fraud perpetrated by persons who buy or steal Social Security numbers. Tax identity theft is a growing problem that affects millions of Americans, but “it’s gone from hundreds of people filing hundreds of fraudulent returns to thousands of
Read more →The Treasury and the IRS have announced that they will be taking targeted action against corporations employing a technique known as a tax inversion in order to avoid taxation, and have issued a fact sheet and a Notice in that respect. What happens with an inversion, is
Read more →The Individual Shared Responsibility Payment Beginning in 2014, the individual shared responsibility provision of the Affordable Care Act requires each individual to: Maintain a minimum level of health care coverage – known as minimum essential coverage , or Qualify for an exemption , or Make an individual
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