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Family Limited Partnership Needs To Have Partners – Plural

by admin | May 9, 2012 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com on May 9th, 2012 Estate of Lois L. Lockett, et al. v. Commissioner, TC Memo 2012-123 One of the most fundamental principles of partnerships is that to have a partnership, you need partners. That is plural. So if someobody is...

Donating TriBeCa Facade Easement Is Like Renouncing Your Super Powers

by admin | May 7, 2012 | Tax

Originally published on forbes.com on May 7th. 2012. If you have property that you would like to be preserved in its present form, there is nothing so close to a free lunch as the donation of an easement. Out in the country, you will call it a conservation easement. ...

Divorce Lawyers – Frequently Not The Best Tax Advisors

by admin | May 6, 2012 | Tax

Originally published on Forbes.com on May 6th, 2012 You can get bad tax advice or no tax advice in just about any area of life, but from my reading of tax cases and some personal observations, I think that if you want to get really bad tax advice, you should get...

Dell Not Subject To Damage Claim For Collecting Too Much Sales Tax

by admin | May 4, 2012 | Tax

Sometimes, it is not nearly as much fun to be a major corporation as those Occupy Wall Street folks seem to think. Take sales tax for example. The states are all over Amazon to collect sales tax from its customers. Funny that the states do not think that their...

Could Refinancing All Student Loans Be A Free Lunch For The Taxpayers?

by admin | May 2, 2012 | Tax

Originally published on forbes.com on May 2, 2012 Before I met with John Remondi, President and COO of Sallie Mae, I combed through Sallie’s 10-K to see what they were worried about. One thing they say they are worried about is that the cost of college will go...

Beating The Possible Estate Tax Increase Without Switching To Cat Food – The Midmill Dilemma