Taxes

Reasonable cause is a common defense to civil tax penalties. Generally, taxpayers fall within the contours of reasonable cause if they can show that they exercised ordinary business care and prudence—for example, with respect to a filing obligation or regarding an item claimed on a tax return. Taxpayers who use tax professionals can sometimes also

Tony Townley is one of the cofounders of Zaxby’s a chain of fast casual restaurants. There are more than 900 locations in 17 states. Goldman Sachs acquired a major stake to help accelerate growth in 2020. Zaxby’s has concentrated on selling chicken fingers and wings with special sauces in the Southeast. This story is about

Total charitable giving to support the work of nonprofits dropped 10.5% last year, compared to 2021 (when adjusted for inflation), according to a report from Giving USA. Giving by individuals alone fell by 13.4%. There may be a variety of explanations for the drop, but two of the biggest? The economy and the Tax Cuts

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist,” John Maynard Keynes famously observed. Apparently, Charles G. Moore and Kathleen F. Moore are in thrall to a certain Columbia University economist from the early 20th century. Edwin R.A. Seligman is a big player

The Senate has passed a stop-gap funding bill to avert a government shutdown before the deadline. The bill is identical to the one that was recently passed in the House. It extends funding for government services at current spending levels, with no spending cuts, including those targeted to the IRS. The bill does not include

Taxpayers who participate in international transactions potentially subject themselves to a panoply of international information return filing obligations. Take this simple example. John, a U.S. citizen, establishes and funds a foreign grantor trust. After creating the trust, John also travels to the foreign jurisdiction and sets up a foreign bank account in the foreign trust’s

A Pennsylvania couple has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States related to their efforts to evade paying employment taxes. According to court documents and statements made in court, Theodore Shearba and Jennifer Cemini (who are not married) owned and operated a landscaping and excavation business in Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania. Perkiomenville is located just

WeWork’s collapse shows how working from home is changing commercial real estate and compounding the sector’s economic challenges. Once hailed as the future of office development, the company recently filed for bankruptcy. WeWork was born and grew after the Great Recession, opening its first Manhattan location in 2011. The company rented out offices for work-sharing.

That collective sigh you just heard? Despite weeks of posturing, the House passed legislation to keep the federal government’s lights on. The bill now moves to the Senate, days ahead of the deadline. If it feels like deja vu all over again, you’re not wrong. Earlier this year, there were worries that the government would

Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) decision to drop his bid for the Republican presidential nomination means voters have lost their best opportunity to hear a serious tax policy debate among his party’s White House hopefuls. Unlike his rivals, Scott campaigned on a thoughtful, relatively detailed agenda that married taxes with his conservative social and economic views.