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November 1999

 

November 1999

Items in green indicate items in the Tax Clinic Department

 

Accounting Methods & Periods

Defining Long-Term Contracts

Permission Granted to Change from FMV Method for Apportioning Interest Expense

 

Corporations & Shareholders

Corporate Charitable Deductions

Representations Required under New Continuity Regulations

Secs. 338 and 1060 Prop. Regs.

Y2K Problems as Business Purpose

 

Employee Benefits & Pensions

Current Developments (Part I), by Peter I. Elinsky, Terrance F. Richardson and Eugene Holmes

 

Estates, Trusts & Gifts

Insolvent Estate's Personal Representative Was Liable for Disbursements Made, to Extent of Tax Liability Known

 

Expenses

Retainer Fees Not Deductible When Applied to Acquisition Costs

 

Foreign Income & Taxpayers

Foreign Corporation as Qualified Resident

 

Gains & Losses

Contingent and Unliquidated Assumed Liabilities Increase the Basis of Purchased Assets

Treatment of Contingent Liabilities after Sec. 338(g) Election

"Threat" of Involuntary Conversion Defined for Sec. 1033 Purposes

Bank's Mutual Fund Losses Were Not Ordinary Losses

 

Individuals

Medical Savings Accounts

Parental Support Tax Savings Opportunities, by Timothy R. Koski

Reviewing a Buy/Sell Agreement

 

Partners & Partnerships

Partner Retains Partner Status until Discharged from Partnership Liabilities

 

Procedure & Administration

Subsequently Determined Deficiency

Electronic Filing

Burden of Proof Shifts to IRS

Frederick Complicates Tax Practitioner Privilege

IRS Guidance on Interest Netting Procedures Creates Refund Potential

When May a Taxpayer's Agent Sign Returns?

Corporation's and Shareholder's Reasonable Reliance on Tax Adviser Precluded Negligence Penalty

Delay in Civil Case While Criminal Investigation Was Pending Was Not Ministerial Act

 

S Corporations

Current Developments (Part II), by Hughlene A. Burton and Stewart S. Karlinsky

 

State & Local Taxes

State Tax Research (chart)

Purchasing Entities Can Simplify Sales and Use Taxes

 

Tax Education

Tax Practitioners' Response to Education Survey

2000 Tax Education Symposium

 

Survey

Reader Survey

 


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