White Collar Criminal Investigations Slowing Down? Think Again…The Increase in Employment Tax Prosecutions
AMLA 2020: Sweeping New AML Laws Have Broad Impacts on All Financial Crimes
PENALTIES—Reconsidering the Reasonable Cause Defense to Late-Filing Penalties and the Impact of the Service’s Clarification of the DIIRSP
The New Age of International Criminal Tax Enforcement
When Client Relationships Don’t End Amicably
By Dan Davidson The CPA Journal December 2020/January 2021 Edition It is never pleasant when a client relationship ends on less than amicable terms. This is especially true when the relationship’s demise leads to litigation. A contract dispute that was recently litigated in bankruptcy court [In
Tax Treatment Of Liquidations Of Partnership Interests
By Eric Smith The CPA Journal December 2020/January 2021 Edition The liquidation of a partner’s entire partnership interest can take various forms, including payment made by the partnership to the retiring partner in complete redemption of the partner’s interest or a sale of such interest to
Mitigating IRS Cryptocurrency Enforcement Risk in 2021
The Impact of the IRS’s Clarification of the DIIRSP
Recent clarifications to the Delinquent International Information Return Submission Procedures (“DIIRSP”) remind taxpayers and their advisors of the need to understand the standards, case law, and administrative guidance that apply to requests to have late-filing penalties abated on the ground of reasonable cause. In June
More Bankruptcies, More Opportunities and Challenges for CPAs
By: Sidney Kess, Alan Gassman, and Aaron Slavutin The CPA Journal October/November 2020 From name-brand corporations like JCPenney and Neiman Marcus to small and mid-sized companies, businesses of all sizes are responding to pandemic-related lockdowns by seeking refuge in bankruptcy. Legal services provider Epiq has reported