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Religious Liberty Suit Against Obamacare Will Move Forward

Religious Liberty Suit Against Obamacare Will Move Forward

At any rate, the arguments in Mr. Cash’s complaint are mostly pretty familiar.  He argues that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) exceeds Congress’s taxing power and its legislative power when you consider the Tenth Amendment.  Mr. Cash told me believes that it is possible that a state might have the power to require insurance, as happened in Massachusetts.  Before Obamacare there was Romneycare.  That doesn’t bother him so much, because he could move.

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Cost Segregation Consultant Subjected To Severe IRS Penalties

Cost Segregation Consultant Subjected To Severe IRS Penalties

There are two types of quality.  One is the technical quality, which will make the report stand up on audit.  The other is how much the thing is saving you by pushing as much as conceivably possible into the five-year category.  The second factor can create a race to the bottom in terms of the first factor. That is the tension poor P ran into and at least in the eyes of the auditor P got a little carried away.

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Miami Developer Denied Large Loss Due To S Corporation Basis Issues

Miami Developer Denied Large Loss Due To S Corporation Basis Issues

Being an accountant, I think that Mr. Meruelo really did get a raw deal here. If Merco had been an LLC taxed as a partnership instead of an S corporation, it likely would have worked out.  Of course there might have been medicare tax then if the project had been a winner instead of a loser, but maybe not.  The other thing that might have saved him was more meticulous bookkeeping among the various entities, rather than a lot of “due to” “due from” transactions to be sorted out by the accountant preparing the tax returns. This case is a good illustration of Reilly’s Fourth Law of Tax Planning – Execution isn’t everything but it is a lot.

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Cooperative Glitch In Tax Bill May Mean Food Fight In Congress

The glitch is the result of the way TCJA was pushed through Congress.  1986 was real tax reform.  There was a lot of upfront work and it was bipartisan and revenue-neutral.  They still needed technical corrections, but those were doable.  There was no gaping loophole like this one created, which seems to demand a fix that may be politically infeasible.

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Florida Man Sticks Ex With Tax Bill – Tax Court Helps A Little

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Evaluating all of the facts, we conclude that it would be inequitable to hold petitioner liable for any of the tax liability associated with  business because of petitioner’s relative lack of sophistication and the roles of _______ and petitioner in their marriage. Here we take into account petitioner’s credible testimony that __________ had convinced her about his business prospects, his duplicity throughout their marriage, and his verbal abuse. On this record it would not be equitable to require her to pay his liability. Therefore, we will grant petitioner relief from joint and several liability under section 6015(f) for the taxes associated with _______ business.

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Farmer Tax Break May Help Doctors And Lawyers – And House Cleaners – Among Others

Putting aside some complications and exceptions a corporation qualifies for this treatment if it is “operating on a cooperative basis”.  There is no election involved in being considered a cooperative or to be more precise “a corporation operating on a cooperative basis”. (We’ll just use cooperative from here on in.  Just remember we are using the tax definition.)  Corporations “operating on a cooperative basis” file Form 1120-C

Here is why you probably have heard of Subchapter S, but not Subchapter T. In 2015 according to IRS Publication 6292, there were 6,893,412 corporate income tax returns (1120) of all types filed.  Of those, 4,717,161 were 1120-S.  Form 1120-C – not so many, only 9,763.

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Joy Ford May Sing The Tax Court Blues

Joy Ford May Sing The Tax Court Blues

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Loophole May Allow Highly Paid Professionals To Take Advantage Of 20% Deduction

The idealism around the worker-owner movement is pretty inspiring and has a deep history.  It makes me almost feel like the loophole is like the Ring of Power hidden in the Shire and that I am kind of like Saruman unleashing a band of bad guys into a kindly sector of the world.  I actually would feel pretty good, if there was a technical correction that fixed this, but always remember Reilly’s First Law of Tax Planning – It is what it is.  Deal with it.  I would hope the deduction stays intact for the bicycle mechanics, house cleaners and artisan bakers among others, who might only be getting a few hundred bucks out of it.  I’m afraid that a lot of them will miss it, because it is kind of obscure.  I’ll try to remember to post a reminder.

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