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Client Alert: Dear Clients and Friends: As you may know, the Corporate Transparency Act requires all existing entities (Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, and Partnerships) to file Beneficial Interest Ownership Reports prior to January 1, 2025 (extended by 6 months for certain individuals affected by Hurricane Milton).  On Tuesday, a Federal District Court in Texas declared …

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Dear Clients and Friends: The sweeping political shift resulting from our recent elections causes a pause in advanced tax reduction planning and possibly an unwinding of some plans.  Many clients have positioned themselves to confront the possibility that estate, gift, and generation skipping tax exemptions would be reduced with a Harris-Walz administration or with a …

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This Client Alert is sent in advance of our annual comprehensive Client Update, which will be sent after the November elections.  This will allow us to provide a more focused update that addresses likely tax and related reform.  Should there be a further shift to Democrat leadership, there will be a likelihood of significant changes …

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We Are Pleased To Announce that James Sopko, Esq., LL.M., has joined the Firm in order to transition his practice and his clients prior to his retirement.  Jim is a personal friend, classmate, and professional colleague of Firm attorney, Joe Kempe, and has served the South Florida professional tax and estate planning communities for over 40 years. …

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A new lawsuit exposes a massive private data breach, and everyone is urged to take action to protect their financial data. The facts surrounding the suit aren’t widely publicized, but it alleges that a massive data breach has exposed the personal information of countless individuals, including sensitive data such as addresses, dates of birth, names …

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August 16, 2024 Senators’ Warren, Warnock, and Cleaver have reintroduced what they are touting as landmark legislation to tackle a U.S. housing crisis. Their introduced Bill is said to be bicameral legislation that would create nearly 3 million new housing units and would reduce rents by 10% for American families — entirely paid for by …

SENATE INTRODUCES ESTATE AND GIFT TAX REFORM TO PAY FOR HOUSING Read More »

– Most Entities Now Require Disclosure or Face Large Penalties – Most anyone who has created business entities, even if no business is conducted because the entity only owns passive real estate or stocks and bonds, must now disclose who owns, controls, or has economic rights in or from the entity, or risk significant penalties. …

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March 12, 2024 BACKGROUND The U.S. Treasury Department this afternoon released the “Green Book” [PDF 2 MB]. Treasury’s “General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals” (“Budget Proposal”) is a 256-page explanation of the tax proposals in the Biden Administration’s FY 2025 budget, also released and transmitted to Congress.  Most of the administration’s revenue proposals …

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Federal Court Strikes Down the Corporate Transparency Act as Unconstitutional March 4, 2024 On March 1, 2024, the federal judge presiding over the lone case testing the validity of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) struck down the CTA as unconstitutional. As our recent Client Update has explained, Congress imposed mandatory reporting obligations on certain companies …

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Exeter Prize 2023 Winners We are happy to announce the winners of the 2023 Exeter Prize for the best paper published in the previous calendar year in a peer-reviewed journal in the fields of Experimental Economics, Behavioural Economics and Decision Theory. The winners are Kirby (Kempe) Nielsen (Caltech) and John Rehbeck (Ohio State University) for their paper “When choices are …

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