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Weekly IRS Roundup June 10 – June 14, 2024

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Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of June 10, 2024 – June 14, 2024....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Blazing Trails: Exploring ESOPs in the Cannabis Industry

The budding cannabis industry, despite its rapid growth and gradual acceptance in recent years, still faces a major sustainability challenge: Cannabis businesses cannot deduct most ordinary business expenses. Under Internal...more

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West Coast Forum 2023 | Key Takeaways

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McDermott’s Private Client Practice led interactive discussions on a broad range of topics pertinent to ultra-high-net-worth families, their family office representatives and other advisors at our Private Client West Coast...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

The IRS Requirement to Report Settlements With Government Agencies Over $50,000

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As part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Congress modified the rules governing the deductibility of certain government settlement-related expenses under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). Effective January 1, 2022,...more

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Settled a Lawsuit with a Government Agency Last Year? Form 1098-F Reporting of Fines and Penalties is Coming Due

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As part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Act), Congress enacted Internal Revenue Code (Code) section 6050X, which requires government agencies (and certain nongovernmental regulatory agencies) to issue information returns...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

IRS Clarifies the New Section 162(q) Related to the Settlement of Sexual Harassment Claims

On February 28, 2019, the IRS posted an FAQ clarifying Section 162(q) of the Internal Revenue Code, which was added by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. As previously summarized by HR Legalist, a strict reading of Section...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

#MeToo Meets the Internal Revenue Code

The “Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year 2018” a.k.a. the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Tax Act”) will, among other things, likely...more

Dentons

Time's Up For Tax Breaks On Secret Settlements

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#TimesUp and #metoo has dominated the news cycle for months. With the public spotlight on the Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, and Larry Nassar scandals, some people fear confidential settlement agreements may perpetuate sexual...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

The Rising Cost of “Hush Money” – Congress Strips Tax Incentives for Sexual Harassment Nondisclosure Agreements

You can count Congress among the institutions caught in the ground swell of the #MeToo movement, and they’re using the tax code to prove it. Buried in the various changes of the new tax bill, Congress included Section...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Employers Beware: Tax Law Change Eliminates Tax Deductions Relating to Certain Settlements

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The #MeToo movement has had far-reaching implications and appears to have influenced the new federal tax law. The legislation contains a provision that has received little attention but that may have serious, unintended...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

New and Proposed Tax Legislation Present New Difficulties for Employers Attempting to Settle Sexual Harassment Claims

Most employers have heard of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law on December 22, 2017, and have contemplated what it may mean for them. What has been largely overlooked, however, is a denial of deduction buried deep in...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

New Tax Act Bars Deductions for Settlements Related to Certain Sexual Harassment Claims

The recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act) has been touted as the largest tax reform since 1986. Among its many provisions, the Act adds a new section to the Internal Revenue Code (Section 162(q)) targeting...more

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