Congress is set to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which includes the most comprehensive changes to the federal tax law in over thirty years. We will provide insight regarding the new law in the coming days and weeks. In the meantime, here is a chart summarizing salient provisions in…
The new General Counsel for the NLRB recently issued a memorandum explaining that the NLRB would be moving swiftly to review several of the more controversial, and arguably anti-employer, decisions issued in the last eight years. On December 14, thirteen days later, on the third night of Hanukkah, nine days…
Japan has long been one of the United States’ largest trading partners. Japan is also one of the United States’ longest-standing tax treaty partners. The first U.S.-Japan income tax treaty was concluded in 1954. Updated treaties were signed in 1971 and 2003, and a protocol in 2013 further modernized the…
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“NPRM”) to alter limitations on tip pooling when an employer does not take a tip credit and pays the tipped employees a direct cash wage of at least the federal minimum wage. According to a DOL fact sheet on…
An LLC taxed as a partnership with 128 partners failed to file its partnership tax return electronically, resulting in the IRS asserting a penalty of $224,640 under IRC section 6698(a)(1). Partnerships with more than 100 partners are required to file their tax returns electronically under IRC section 6011(e). Williams Parker…