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If a taxpayer suffers a loss by reason of errors made by a tax advisor, and the tax advisor makes a payment to compensate the taxpayer for the loss. May the payment be excluded from the taxpayer’s income subject to tax? The courts and the IRS have, in some circumstances, found such payments to be non-taxable returns of capital. In McKenny v. United States, a recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (126 AFTR 2d 2020-5943), however, the court concluded that the taxpayers could not exclude the payment at issue from income.
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The Future of Litigation Workflow: Reimagining Technology and Process in the Next Decade
By Ari Kaplan
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By Anthony Davies
The success of the decentralized law firm depends in some part on how well firms can shift “hoteling” from the negative connotation of “losing my desk” to the positive connotation of “having a hotel-like experience” as is the case in the Big 4.
Biden Administration Budget 2022: Employer Sponsored Death Benefits a Forgotten Planning Tool
By Lawrence L. Bell
Part Two of a Two-Part Article
Part Two provides more scenarios under which an Employer-Sponsored Death Benefit plan may be assigned, based on IRS memoranda.
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By Sharon Meit Abrahams
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