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Twelve Angry Taxpayers: Why the Constitution Might Guarantee a Jury Trial for Accuracy and Fraud Penalties in Tax Cases After SEC v. Jarkesy

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This article considers the current constitutional status of the Internal Revenue Code (I.R.C.) §6662 accuracy penalties and I.R.C. §6663 penalties...

Individual Retirement Accounts: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

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In the November/December 2019 issue of The Florida Bar Journal, I outlined individual retirement arrangement/account (IRA) basics and warned readers...

Federal Tax Lien Remedies

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Federal Tax liens are rarely just “tax issues” and can impact clients in a multitude of ways across several practice...

Taxed by Design? Florida’s Tax on Interior Design Contracts and What To Do About It

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Florida sales and use tax can be full of surprises. Generally, sales and use tax applies to the sale or...

Putting Carts Before Horses: Why the Taxpayer Failed in Connelly v. United States, and the Effect on Business Succession and Estate Tax Planning

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On June 6, 2024, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled for the IRS in Connelly v. United States, 144 S. Ct....

FinCEN Fenced In? CTA Held Unconstitutional, but Filing To Continue

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On March 1, 2024, the federal district court for the Northern District of Alabama issued a memorandum opinion, National Small...

Tax Considerations for Contingent Interest and Convertible Debt in Cross-Border Lending Transactions

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The treatment of contingent interest and convertible debt in cross-border payment transactions is subject to several provisions of the Internal...

Pre-Immigration Planning with the Foreign Trust: The Intersection of Income and Estate Tax

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A foreign trust is generally treated as a non-resident/non-citizen (NRNC) for U.S. tax purposes. Foreign trusts are therefore subject to...

The Cashless Real Estate Deal: Beware of Phantom Withholding on Foreign Partners’ Income

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Down markets yield an uptick in insolvent real estate transactions, which may result in cancellation of indebtedness income (COD income)....

Foreign Grantor Trust Planning: A Flexible Planning Structure for U.S. Income Tax

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Over the years, U.S. tax practitioners specializing in international taxation have established foreign grantor trusts (FGTs) to assist multi-jurisdictional families...