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A modest proposal: the discount and refund-or-donate policy

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 12 2013

Despite all of the jokes to the contrary, lawyers as a professional group are remarkably charitable. Unlike plumbers, doctors, electricians

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Rare victory for corporate taxpayers provides insight to in-house tax departments regarding employee privacy and privileged documents

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 10 2012

On August 15, 2012, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled for the taxpayer in three out of four Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) summons enforcement actions

2011-2012 Massachusetts legislative session

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • October 4 2012

The formal legislative session for 2011-2012 concluded on July 31st

Summary of new provisions in IRS Draft Instructions for Form 706 for decedents dying in 2012

  • Bryan Cave LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 24 2012

As we told you last week, the IRS recently released Draft Instructions for Form 706 for decedents dying in 2012, which can be found here

Portability

  • Pepper Hamilton LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 21 2012

"Portability" allows a surviving spouse to use the unused federal estate tax exemption of the first spouse to die in cases where the first to die had insufficient assets at death to fully use his or her own exemption

Federal estate tax and portability

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 28 2012

As a part of the tax changes enacted by Congress in late 2010, the concept of "portability" was introduced into the estate tax law

When a woman loves a woman (with apologies to percy sledge): another federal judge strikes down DOMA

  • Bryan Cave LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 22 2012

The year was 1963, the restaurant Portofino an eclectic restaurant in Greenwich Village, a part of New York City known as one of the centers of the gay and lesbian liberal movement

Estate planning in 2012

  • Sills Cummis & Gross PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 8 2012

The past several months have seen a torrent of articles, newsletters and bulletins summarizing the present situation concerning estate planning

Impact of new Medicare investment tax on trusts and estates

  • Armstrong Teasdale LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 15 2012

As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act enacted in 2010, Section 1411 was added to the Internal Revenue Code