Reporting Cash Tips to the IRS [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 24]
Three Timely Benefits Items Everyone Should Know
Foreign Bank Account Reporting and Employment Tax Enforcement: Ronn Owens interviews Steve Moskowitz
Tax Traps of Employment Documents
Common Employment Law Mistakes for Small, Start-Up and Growing Companies
For an employee who is a U.S. taxpayer, both the employer and the employee are liable for a portion of Social Security taxes and Medicare taxes (collectively referred to as “FICA” taxes) on the employee’s compensation. ...more
On November 28, 2023, in Soroban Capital Partners LP v. Commissioner, the US Tax Court denied the taxpayer’s motion for summary judgment, holding that whether a limited partner in a state law limited partnership qualifies for...more
Section 1402(a)(13) of the Internal Revenue Code provides that the distributive share of “limited partners, as such” from a partnership is not subject to self-employment tax.[1] Managers of private equity and hedge funds are...more
In IRS Notice 2023-71 (the “Notice”), the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) granted a postponement until October 7, 2024 for various time-sensitive filing and payment deadlines for taxpayers affected by the terrorist attacks...more
Private equity, hedge fund, and other investment fund sponsors should be aware that there continue to be significant developments in the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS’s) audit campaign with respect to the potential...more
More than 25 years ago, effective January 1, 1997, Treasury issued what have been called the “Check-the-Box” regulations (the “Regulations”). The Regulations ended decades of battles between taxpayers and the IRS over entity...more
Worker Classification and Section 530 Relief - Employers are required to pay employment taxes to the IRS. Generally, these payments consist of two portions: the employee’s portion of FICA and income taxes and the employer’s...more
Tax Litigation: The Week of April 18th, 2022, through April 22nd, 2022 Sezonov. Comm’r, TC Memo. 2022-40| April 20, 2022 | Marvel, J. | Dkt. No. 26650-17 Bindel v. Commissioner |April 20, 2022 | Urda, P. | Dkt. No. 9552-19...more
Tax Litigation: The Week of April 11th, 2022, through April 15th, 2022 The REDI Foundation, Inc. v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-34 |April 11, 2022 |Nega, J. | Dkt. No. 23715-18 Mihalik v. Comm’r | April 13, 2022 | Gustafson, D....more
Tax Court Litigation: The Week of September 13 – September 17, 2021 - Donna M. Sutherland v. Comm’r, No. 3634-18, T.C. Memo 2021-110 | September 16, 2021 | Lauber | Dkt. No. 3634-18 - Short Summary: This is an...more
Report Card- A couple of weeks ago, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (“TIGTA”) released a report that presented the results of its review to determine whether the IRS’s “policies, procedures and,...more
Corporations, limited liability companies, and certain other business entities can make an election with the Internal Revenue Service to be taxed under Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code. If such an election is made,...more
Movement Toward Tax Increases- You may have read last week that Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee announced they had reached a deal on a budget resolution that will enable them to bypass Senate Republicans on the...more
In restaurants, the wait staff, bartenders, and bussers are required to report their tips, including cash tips, to the restaurant and the IRS. Even if those cash tips aren’t reported to the restaurant, since tips are income...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of March 8, 2021 – March 12, 2021... March 11, 2021: The IRS released Internal Revenue Bulletin...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of February 1, 2021 – February 5, 2021. February 4, 2021: The IRS published Rev. Proc. 2021-15...more
In many respects, operating a law firm is no different than any other business. Specifically, the law firm generates revenues through providing services to its clients and incurs various operating expenses throughout the...more
Former N.Y. Elected Official Sentenced To Six Months - The court also ordered the New Yorker to pay $254,628 in restitution to the IRS. A former Town of Hempstead, New York, councilman was sentenced to six months in...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of October 19, 2020 – October 23, 2020. October 20, 2020: The IRS released Announcement 20-40...more
As the 2020 year draws to a close, businesses should review the tax-related provisions adopted in the CARES Act and related IRS guidance with their tax advisers: EMPLOYER REFUNDABLE CREDIT AND PAYROLL TAX DEFERRAL: -...more
Businesses with operations in California have begun to identify options and implement strategies for compliance with Assembly Bill (AB) 5, which imposes the ABC test for identifying whether a worker is an independent...more
The IRS has published Final Regulations finalizing its prior guidance that partners in a partnership must pay self-employment tax on their partnership income, even if they work for an entity owned entirely by the partnership...more
We noticed an uptick in employment tax issues, so thought a primer on employment taxation basics would be helpful. While this may be of general interest to in-house counsel and human resources professionals, it is probably...more
Something to gnaw on during your lunch hour today (sorry, we couldn’t resist): the IRS recently released TAM 201903017, which ruled that free employee meals provided by an employer were includible in its employees’ taxable...more
With all of the payroll complexities that employers face, it is no surprise that a special set of rules that applies to only a small category of employees is frequently overlooked....more