Three Partners Also Named Leading Lawyers for High-Net-Worth Private Clients NEW YORK (July 22, 2024) — Kostelanetz LLP has been recognized by Chambers and Partners as a top-tier, Band 1 firm for high-net-worth private tax clients in its 2024 High Net Worth (HNW) Guide. In addition to the firm’s
By Daniel C. Davidson ABA White Collar Crime Committee Newsletter July 2024 Earlier this year, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) jointly announced updated language in the agencies’ documents requests (such as preservation letters and grand jury subpoenas) “to address the
In Charles G. Moore v. United States (No. 22-800), petitioners challenged Congress’s authority to tax unrealized gains under the Sixteenth Amendment. The tax at issue was the Mandatory Repatriation Tax (MRT), which is a one-time tax on accumulated but undistributed foreign earnings that was included in the
Many nonprofits that were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have financially benefited from claiming the Employee Retention Credit (ERC). But the ERC has become the source of considerable notoriety over the last several years and is now the focus of significant government enforcement activity. Originally
TaxNotes quoted Andrew Weiner in an article titled “Supreme Court Opens Door to APA Challenges of Older Tax Regs,” published July 2, 2024. The article covers a recent Supreme Court holding in Corner Post Inc. v. Federal Reserve, a nontax case, that the six-year time bar
On July 8, 2024, the ABA Sections of Taxation and Real Property, Trust and Estate submitted comments on the proposed regulations under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) §§ 643(i), 679, 6039F, 6048, and 6677 regarding transactions with foreign trusts and information reporting on transactions with foreign
Michael Sardar was quoted in a July 5, 2024, MarketWatch article titled “What it’s like to be audited by the bigger, better-funded IRS. ‘They are pushing harder now.’” From the article: “With the IRS stepping up enforcement on upper-income taxpayers, Michael Sardar, a partner handling
On July 2, the IRS published proposed regulations providing that the IRS will assess as an underpayment of tax the interest paid to taxpayers on erroneous refunds of the employee retention credit (“ERC”), as well as other employment tax credits, such as the paid sick
On June 28, 2024, transgender activists, legal advocates, and currently unhoused transgender New Yorkers attended a press conference at Foley Square, regarding New York City’s obligation to provide transgender and gender nonconforming (“TGNC”) affirming shelter to unhoused New Yorkers. In a 2021 settlement resolving Mariah Lopez v.
Over the years, the circuits have split on how to interpret the statute of limitations for bringing a facial challenge to a regulation or other agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”). Yesterday, in Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal
