Recently, I wrote an article for the Hennepin County Lawyer addressing some of the kinds of tax questions that non-tax attorneys receive from their clients. The text of this article is included below: Tax touches almost everything. As a tax attorney, this keeps my job very interesting. This also means that even non-tax attorneys likely [...]
The American Rescue Plan Act established the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) to provide support to eligible entities that suffered revenue losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) will provide restaurants and other eligible entities with funding equal to their COVID-19 pandemic-related revenue loss up to $10 million per business [...]
The IRS defines virtual currency as a “digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and/or a store of value. In some environments, it operates like “real” currency (i.e., the coin and paper money of the United States or of any other country that is designated as legal [...]
On March 25, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released guidance related to its “People First Initiative,” a program intended to respond to the challenges of Covid-19, by providing a variety of relief related to IRS deadlines and collection actions (for more information on the IRS’s People First Initiative, please see our previous blog articles [...]
In light of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) extended the April 15, 2020, filing and payment deadlines for federal individual income taxes for the 2019 tax year to July 15, 2020. Due to the pandemic, many taxpayers are finding themselves in difficult financial circumstances. They are unable to pay their [...]
On March 25, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced its “People First Initiative,” a program intended to respond to the challenges of Covid-19 by providing a variety of relief related to IRS deadlines and collection actions. For additional information, please see our previous blog article regarding the People First Initiative here and the full [...]
On March 25, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released guidance related to its “People First Initiative,” a program intended to respond to the challenges of Covid-19 by providing a variety of relief related to IRS deadlines and collection actions. The full IRS press release can be found here. As part of its People First [...]
On March 27, 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The CARES Act is a $2 trillion stimulus bill intended to help shore up the American economy and provide relief for businesses and many individuals. Many provisions of the CARES Act are intended to free up cash so that [...]
There are many reasons businesses fall behind on paying their federal tax liabilities. Falling behind on certain kinds of taxes, sometimes called “trust fund” taxes, may result in the IRS assessing those taxes against the business owners, officers, or other individuals the IRS considers to be “responsible” for ensuring the payment of those taxes. Federal [...]
On June 21, 2018, The United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in South Dakota v. Wayfair that states can mandate that businesses without a physical presence in a state but with more than 200 transactions in or $100,000 in in-state sales must collect and remit sales taxes on transactions in the state. In this article, [...]