Archive for the ‘legal updates’ Category

Back in 2000, I wrote here about a case where a taxpayer did not report multiple foreign accounts on an FBAR. The question for the court was whether the $10,000 penalty for a nonwillful failure to file meant  $10,000 per return not filed, or $10,000 per account not reported on the return. For . . […]

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U.S. spouses each have a unified credit that allows for substantial gifting to third parties without requiring the payment of gift tax. What happens if one spouse has assets to be gifted away, but that spouse does not have sufficient remaining unified credit exemption to cover the gift and wants to use the exemption of […]

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Code Section 4941(d)(1)(B) treats lending transactions between a private foundation and disqualified person as an act of self-dealing (although an interest-free loan by the disqualified person to the private foundation is not self-dealing) subject to an excise tax. What happens if the private foundation owns an interest in an entity, and that entity holds a […]

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In its most recent legislative session, the Florida legislature enacted a number of additions and modifications to Florida statutory law relating to Florida’s homestead exemption. These provisions can be summarized as enhancing or clarifying the exemption. The following is a summary of the new provisions, along with some excerpts. ==============  736.0201(7): A proceeding to determine […]

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A U.S. grantor of a foreign trust that is a grantor trust that receives a distribution from the trust as beneficiary has two U.S. filing requirements attributable to the foreign trust status: Code Section 6048(b) requires. . .

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