Tax Blogs

The business of art is fertile grounds for the tax professional. Depending on the unique facts, a piece of art can never sell—or sell for millions of dollars. It can change hands once—or multiple ...

Employment taxes are expensive. Payroll taxes are expensive. Withholding taxes is an administrative burden. All true. But I remember a wise tax lawyer once saying to a group of us, “if you can’t ...

1) First of all, what is bonus depreciation? Designed to stimulate investment in business property (not land or buildings), the Internal Revenue Code, under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), ...

The same tax rules apply whether the award is made by settlement (before or after lawsuit) or awarded through a judgment. But the parties can influence taxation by inserting pivotal facts in a ...

Tax law is harsh when it comes to most filing deadlines, which are considered jurisdictional and not subject to equitable tolling. Even one day late, regardless of the harshness of result, will block ...

Under the tax code, the confidentiality privilege only applies in non-criminal tax matters. But United States v. Kovel (2nd Cir. 1961) stepped in to extend the attorney-client privilege to cover ...