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Gain Deferral through Qualified Opportunity Zones Funds

November 27, 2018

Business, Compliance, Tax

Last month, the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations clarifying the potential tax benefits to taxpayers who invest in Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZ) through a Qualified Opportunity Fund (QOF). Introduced by the 2017 Tax Cuts and…More

FEC Issues Regulatory Guidance for Independent Expenditure Spending

October 10, 2018

Compliance, Political Law

Following the Supreme Court’s Sept. 18th decision to lift the stay on the Crew v. FEC ruling, the Federal Election Commission has issued guidance for organizations and individuals making independent expenditures in this election cycle….More

Taxpayer Alert: IRS is Ending the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program on September 28, 2018

September 20, 2018

Compliance, Tax

The Internal Revenue Service will officially end its Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) on September 28, 2018. Taxpayers that have not disclosed foreign financial assets have until that date to comply under the IRS program. Over the…More

Where There’s Smoke, You Can’t Always Fire

October 17, 2017

Compliance, Employment, Workplace

Massachusetts’ highest court has recently determined that employees who lawfully use marijuana under a state’s medical marijuana law may have claims when they are terminated by their employer for testing positive for marijuana. In Barbuto…More

Employers – Do your Contracts Comply with the Defend Trade Secrets Act?

March 1, 2017

Business, Compliance, Employment, Workplace

Employers were provided with another weapon to protect their confidential trade secrets when the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) became federal law on May 11, 2016.  The DTSA created a federal civil cause of action…More