Robert Smith, CEO of a San Francisco-based company, committed serious financial crimes including his involvement in an illegal scheme to hide income for 15 years and evade millions of dollars in taxes by using offshore trusts and bank accounts. He used his tax savings...
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California Provides Nexus Relief
What happens when an out-of-state business suddenly has an employee working from home in California due to COVID-19, and in accordance with Governor Newson’s Executive Order N-33-20, the “Stay at Home” Order? A corporation may be concerned that while it had no...
California Sales and Use Tax Relief
If you owe sales and use tax to California, either because you purchased tangible personal property for use in California, or you are an out-of-state seller that failed to collect use tax on sales to California customers, you may qualify for the California Department...
Third-Party Payroll Services Can Get You In Trouble
The IRS is cautioning businesses that use third-party payroll services to be aware that the business is usually still held legally responsible if any tax filing is done wrong on their behalf. Although most payroll services are legitimate, every year employers are hit...
Proposed Multi-State Worker Tax Fairness Act of 2020 (H.R. 7968)
The ”convenience of the employer” test has long been used to allow states to tax nonresident workers who are physically present in a state for work performed in the taxing state. In August, H.R. 7968 was introduced which would limit a State's ability to tax wages...
Update to PL 86-272
Public Law 86-272 has long been an income tax protection for out-of-state sellers who enter into other states, including California, for purposes limited to the “mere solicitation of orders” of tangible personal property, when the orders are approved and filled...
AB 5-Compliant Independent Contractor Agreements
Assembly Bill 5 was passed and signed into law in September 2019. The bill instituted the new California worker classification test, the ABC Test (Labor Code section 2750.3), which states that a worker is an independent contractor only if the company hiring the worker...
Trusts with California Income are Taxable in California
A California Appellate Court recently held that all of a trust’s California source income is taxable in California, regardless of the state of residence of the trust’s fiduciaries. The Court clarified that it is non-California source income that is dependent on the...
Don’t Get Scammed!
In the IRS’ annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams for the year, taxpayers are urged to watch for some of the old tricks, like fake e-mail messages or threatening phone calls by those purporting to be the IRS, to newer scams of fraudsters posing as fake charities...
The U.S. Attorney’s Office takes Swift Action on CARES Act Fraud
The Department of Justice and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices around the Nation regularly investigate and prosecute tax preparers who prepare and file fraudulent income tax returns with the IRS. These government agencies are now seeking out those fraudsters who have filed...
