by Arthur Geffen | Jun 8, 2022 | crimes, Income Tax
DES MOINES, IA – Kevin Jeffrey Stiller, age 59, of Ankeny, was sentenced Tuesday, June 7, 2022, to 18 months in prison for failing to file income tax returns. Stiller pleaded guilty on February 3, 2022, to two counts of failure to file income tax returns, one for each...
by Arthur Geffen | May 12, 2022 | Child Tax Credit, Tax
Families eligible for the expanded child tax credit who still haven’t received payments can still sign up to get the money through an updated portal unveiled by the White House on Wednesday designed to make the process even simpler. The portal, GetCTC.org, will allow...
by Arthur Geffen | May 12, 2022 | Estate Tax, Gift Tax
Over the last couple of years, as there was concern that the gift and estate tax exemption (along with the related generation-skipping transfer tax exemption) would be reduced back to pre-2017 levels, many individuals made gifts or other transfers to utilize their...
by Arthur Geffen | May 4, 2022 | Texas Property Tax
Most things are bigger in Texas, but your property tax bill doesn’t have to be. No doubt, tax authorities in Texas are at times overzealous in their valuations on which property taxes are computed. The head of property taxes for a Fortune 500 client once quipped: “If...
by Arthur Geffen | May 4, 2022 | Estate Planning, Estate Planning Solutions, Estate Tax
Recently issued proposed clawback regulations (Proposed Treasury Regulations Section 20.2010-1(c)(3)), (the proposed regs) may undermine the planning your clients completed over the past few years to address the coming reduction in the estate tax exemption or the then...
