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Maintaining apartment for parents drags out-of-state resident into New York income tax

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 12 2013

The New York Appellate Division recently affirmed a noteworthy case involving a New Jersey taxpayer who lived in New Jersey and worked in New York

IRS launches new Voluntary Classification Settlement Program

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 23 2011

The Internal Revenue Service recently announced the Voluntary Classification Settlement Program, a new program available to businesses, tax-exempt organizations, and government entities that are erroneously treating workers as non-employees or independent contractors

The new tax act brings certainty to estate and gift taxes

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 5 2013

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the "Act"), which was signed into law by President Obama on Jan. 2, 2013, made permanent the $5 million

Amendments to Brownfield Cleanup Program alter tax credits but not eligibility criteria

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 7 2008

On June 23rd, Governor David A. Paterson signed into law amendments to New York’s Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP

2009 dollar limits for retirement plans

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 21 2008

On Oct. 16, 2008, the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration issued the inflation-adjusted amounts that will affect qualified retirement plans and Social Security benefits effective Jan. 1, 2009

Unique gifting opportunities through the end of 2012

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 4 2011

Tax legislation passed at the end of 2010 temporarily lowered the federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (“GST”) tax rates to 35 percent, increased the federal estate tax exemption from $3.5 million to $5 million, and increased both the federal gift and GST tax exemptions from $1 million to $5 million

Retirement plan dollar limits get a boost for 2012

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 21 2011

The Internal Revenue Service announced the cost-of-living adjustments applicable to the dollar limitations for qualified retirement plans that will allow employees to increase their retirement savings for 2012

IRS broadens program for re-classification of independent contractors as employees

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2013

Employer misclassification of employees as independent contractors can be a costly mistake with many ramifications, including, but not limited to

New York State tax changes effective April 1 will benefit independent schools

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 27 2012

For calendar quarters beginning on or after April 1, 2012, certain private schools previously subject to New York’s Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax (the “MCTMT”) will now be exempt from paying such tax

New proposed tax regulations on FATCA withholding and reporting

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2012

The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released proposed regulations for sections 1471 through 1474 (“FATCA”) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended