State of South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. et al In what portends to be the next landmark Supreme Court decision on a state’s constitutional power to impose state sales tax on interstate commerce the Court recently heard oral arguments in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., et al, cert granted, 138 S.Ct. 735 (1/12/2018). The issue before the Court is whether South Dakota sales tax scheme can satisfy the requirement under the Commerce Clause by imposing sales and use tax collection on a remote seller wi… Read More

Reprinted From The Winter 2018 Issue Of ALI-CLE’s The Practical Tax LawyerWinter 2018 Edition On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) of 2017, P.L. 115-97, which introduced a set of tax cuts and other reforms that will affect substantially all U.S. taxpayers, both corporate and individual. The key feature of the new legislation was the reduction by 40 percent of the maximum federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent,… Read More

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The new tax law enacted in December swapped out a graduated corporate tax rate topping out at 35 percent with a flat 21 percent rate across the board. While this provision, combined with the elimination of the corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT), might seem to have simplified matters considerably, attorney Jerald David August, a tax partner at Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP, who spoke at the Foundation for Accounting Education’s conference “Impact of the New Tax Law: a Sid Kess Work… Read More

ALI-CLE Course Materials, January 18, 2018. VCZG0118 ALI-CLE 57…JOBS ACT OF 2017 IMPAC INTERNATIONAL TAX CHANGES UNDER TCJA Jerald David August Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP New York, New York Copyright (c) 2018 The American Law Institute (c) 2018 Jerald David August. All rights reserved. VCZG0118 ALI-CLE 57 2018 WL 551477… Read More

President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), H.R. 1, into I law on December 22, 2017. The law was passed by Congress two days earlier, on December 20, 2017. In general, the effective date of the TCJA is January 1, 2017. Many of the provisions of the TCJA will sunset on January 1, 2027, although some provisions are permanent. While the conference committee resolved the differences between the House and Senate bills- and there were indeed many differences-the Conference Committee selec… Read More

On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, P.L. 115-97, which introduced a wholesale set of tax cuts and other reforms that affect substantially all U.S. taxpayers, both corporate and individual. One of the highlights of the new law is the repatriation of foreign-sourced accumulated earnings and profits with respect to controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) as defined.[1] Newly enacted section 965 imposes a transition tax on the accumulated (a… Read More

On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, P.L. 115-97, which introduced a wholesale set of tax cuts and other reforms that affect substantially all U.S. taxpayers, both corporate and individual. One of the highlights of the new law is the repatriation of foreign-sourced accumulated earnings and profits with respect to controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) as defined.[1] Newly enacted section 965 imposes a transition tax on the accumulated (a… Read More