by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, IRS Regulation, Tax Preparation, Valuations
Kardash v. Commissioner, 2015 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 69 (March 18, 2015) A Tax Court memo resulting from a transferee liability case includes an informative discussion of the valuation methodologies the parties’ solvency experts used to determine the company’s fair market...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Deductions, Financial Planning, IRS Regulation, Tax Planning, Tax Preparation
This past holiday season, taxpayers received a “gift” from Washington, D.C. It’s the PATH Act, which stands for Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015. This act does more than just extend expired tax provisions for another year, the...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Fraud Prevention, IRS Regulation, Tax Planning, Tax Preparation
The tax law passed by Congress and signed by President Obama on December 18th contains some payroll tax provisions that are of interest to Maine employers. Here are four changes in the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (PATH Act). 1. There will be an...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, IRS Regulation, Valuations
Fox v. CDx Holdings, 2015 Del. Ch. LEXIS 194 (July 28, 2015) The Delaware Court of Chancery has on numerous occasions called out major financial institutions for providing erroneous or even “motivated” valuations. But few opinions include more searing criticism than a...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | IRS Regulation, Tax Planning, Tax Preparation
The new year brought some good news from the IRS for Maine Employers. They announced that the due dates for filing 2015 Affordable Care Act (ACA) information returns have been extended. This gives employers extra time to provide the forms to the recipients, and file...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Deductions, IRS Regulation, Tax Planning
The IRS 2016 optional standard mileage rates are in. These rates are used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. You can generally deduct actual expenses incurred from driving your vehicle for...
