by Arthur Geffen | Aug 18, 2011 | Tax
Imagine this headline making national news in late November, just 10 weeks before the Iowa caucus: "Texas High Court Rules Perry Created State Income Tax." How would that play with tea partiers? A recent lawsuit argues that a tax on businesses passed...
by Arthur Geffen | Aug 17, 2011 | Estate Planning, Estate Planning Solutions, Estate Tax
Wealthy individuals in the U.S. will find it easier to cut their estate-tax bill as a result of a provision for using their deceased spouses’ exemption credit. Everybody has a gift and estate-tax exemption of up to $5 million this year and next. For people who...
by Arthur Geffen | Aug 17, 2011 | Technology
BE SURE WHAT YOU ARE SENDING BEFORE YOU HIT THE SUBMIT BUTTON! Last week, a partly redacted document about the AT&T-Mobile merger was oh-so-briefly posted on the FCC’s site by Arnold & Porter LLP, a law firm working on the deal for AT&T. Outlining...
by Arthur Geffen | Aug 16, 2011 | Income Tax
According to Hoovers there are approximately 1.4 million non-profit organizations in the United States. They have a combined annual revenue of over 1 trillion dollars. Aside from their trillion dollar plus annual income, some of the largest...
by Arthur Geffen | Aug 15, 2011 | Estate Planning Solutions
In late June, I travelled to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, to participate in the biennial meetings of the Community of Democracies, an inter-governmental association begun in the year 2000 to encourage the growth and strengthening of democracies around the world....
