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California low-income housing tax credits do not trigger prevailing wage requirements

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2008

The affordable housing industry recently received good news about California state low-income housing tax credits (“LIHTCs”

Ruling permits employer to deduct deferred compensation paid to a charity

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 19 2009

In PLR 200905016, an employee of a corporation was entitled to a benefit under a non-qualified deferred compensation plan

Court holds that employment severance payments are not subject to FICA taxes

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 24 2013

In 2001, Quality Stores, Inc. filed for bankruptcy and eventually closed all of its stores and terminated its employees. The terminated employees

Just in time for tax season--auditors test professional exemption against Price Waterhouse in yet another class action

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 25 2013

I have noticed that there are not many lawsuits (e.g. class actions) brought that test the limits of the professional exemption. That exemption

Payroll tax fraud by accountant keeps employer’s statute of limitations open

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 11 2013

The Second Circuit recently ruled that the fraudulent acts of an employer's accountant in filing payroll tax returns resulted in an open-ended

Cuba-2010: a journey back in time with a bright future

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • Cuba, USA
  • -
  • March 12 2010

The enactment of the Agrarian Reform Law of 1959, land “reform” legislation that resulted in the nationalization of large estates and companies by the Cuban Government, not only resulted in mistrust -- but also 50 years of a severed relationship -- between the United States and Cuba

Opportunity for FICA savings on severance

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 31 2010

A recent US District Court case for the Western District of Michigan may give employers authority to file for refund claims of FICA (Social Security) taxes on severance pay and to avoid FICA taxation on future severance pay

New Jersey’s telecommuter nexus

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 13 2010

As if New Jersey did not already have enough of an image problem, it can now add annoyed telecommuters, and the businesses that employ them, to the list of reasons for the state's less than stellar reputation

Court addresses concept of personal goodwill in connection with the sale of a business

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 12 2010

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington recently decided a very interesting case

Recent case highlights the problems with employee business expenses

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 5 2010

If tax deductions were ranked on a scale from best to worst, business related expenses incurred by employees would rank near the bottom