by Jacob Stein | Jul 15, 2015 | Attorney Blogs, Blog
The Tax Man is having a difficult time trying to keep up with the advances in technology and the businesses that take advantage of it. In a world where technology has enabled swift global and communal evolutions, taxation of these evolutions provides challenges. One...
by Jacob Stein | Jul 7, 2015 | Attorney Blogs, Blog
As the rest of us are getting into the groove of late summer evenings and barbecues, the Greek economy is quickly going through the shredder. The last two weeks saw the country’s debt crises go from yellow to blazing red. What happens now that the Greek people said...
by Jacob Stein | Jun 23, 2015 | Attorney Blogs, Blog
Many of our clients are physicians. Doctors are vulnerable to malpractice lawsuits, often brought by avaricious plaintiffs’ attorneys. With approximately 17,000 medical lawsuits filed each year, most doctors will get sued at least once in their career, with plastic...
by Jacob Stein | Jun 16, 2015 | Attorney Blogs, Blog
The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) otherwise known as the Vatican Bank is the latest jurisdiction to join the growing list on the FATCA bandwagon. FATCA stands for Foreign Account Tax Compliant Act, a controversial effort by the U.S. government to curb...
by Jacob Stein | Jan 27, 2015 | Attorney Blogs, Blog
Can you put monetary value on a partitioned art collection? A recent decision by the Appeals Court 5th Circuit in the case of Elkins V. the IRS may shed some light on this question and give art collectors and their estate planners an answer to the question above. Many...
by Jacob Stein | Nov 20, 2014 | Attorney Blogs, Blog
The ‘Irish Double’ and the ‘Irish Double with a Dutch Sandwich’ tax loopholes have provided companies like Google and other big-name players registered in Ireland with a very effective international tax strategy. Due to increasing pressure from the EU and the United...
