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Category Archives: Tax
New DOJ Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy Alerts Organizations To Strengthen Sentencing Guideline Compliance Programs
Since the Federal Sentencing Guidelines are key determinants on the criminal liability and sentencing of organizations and their leaders for federal crimes committed by their organization or their employees, organizations and their leaders need to clearly understand the multitude of laws that could trigger their application and the practices necessary to position themselves and their organizations to mitigate liability in the event of a potential criminal violation. Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, antitrust, bank secrecy act, Bankruptcy, Board of Directors, CEO, CFO, Compliance, Cyber, D&O, Director Liability, Director Liabiloity, Employee Benefits, Employment, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Fair Debt Collections Act, fda, Fiduciary Responsibility, Government Contractor, Internal Controls, management, Officers, Officers Liability, Reductions In Force, Risk Management, Securities, sentencing guidelines, Tax, Uncategorized, Workforce Management
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Appeals Court Rules Corporation Can’t Deduct Excise Tax Not Paid As Tax Deduction
Federal corporate taxpayers may not deduct as a cost of goods sold expense an excise tax expense that was never actually incurred or paid according the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals just-released ruling in Sunoco, Inc. v. United States, No. 2017-1402 (November 1, 2018). Continue reading
Posted in Board of Directors, CEO, CFO, Compliance, Cyber, data breach, Fraud, Leadership, Privacy, Tax, Uncategorized
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10/15 Deadline To Make Depreciation Deduction Election
10/15 Deadline To Make Depreciation Deduction Election Continue reading
Posted in Board of Directors, CEO, CFO, Tax
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Reconstruct Records After a Disaster
Are you trying to help your business or family clean up the mess and recover from a hurricane, flood, fire or other disaster? Reconstructing records to prove a loss for tax purposes, getting federal assistance, or insurance reimbursement often is … Continue reading
Posted in CEO, CFO, Compliance, Internal Controls, Risk Management, Tax, Uncategorized
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Hurricane Impacted Financial Institutions Tell FinCEN If BSA Reports Delayed
FINRA Reporting by Hurricane Impacted Financial Institutions
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Posted in bank secrecy act, Bankruptcy, Board of Directors, CEO, CFO, Compliance, Director Liability, Internal Controls, Officers, Tax, Uncategorized
Tagged Bankruptcy, CFO, Compliance, Corporate Compliance, Fiduciary Liability, Fiduciary Responsibility, financial institution, Hurricane, Internal Controls, management, officers liability, Reporting, Risk Management
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Take Your Preventive Medicine
Better planning and management can head off most but not all problems. Sometimes stuff happens even when you do everything right. Either way, better management usually minimizes the damage and makes it easier to clean up the mess. It’s never … Continue reading
Posted in Bankruptcy, Board of Directors, CEO, CFO, Compliance, Cyber, D&O, Data Security, Director Liability, E&O, Employee Benefits, Employment, ESOP, Fiduciary Responsibility, Fraud, Health Plans, Internal Controls, Labor Relations, Leadership, M&A, Officers, Officers Liability, Performance Management, Privacy, Reductions In Force, Reengineering, Retirement Plans, Risk Management, Shareholder Liability, Stock Plans, Tax, Teaming, Turnaround Management, Workforce Management
Tagged Bankruptcy, CFO, Compliance, directors liability, Employer, employment, ERISA, facebook, Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Fiduciary Liability, Fiduciary Responsibility, health plans, Human Resources, inspiration, Internal Controls, labor law, Leadership, officers liability, quotes, Risk Management, risk managmenet, Sarbanes-Oxley, social media, Sox
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Businesses Must Prepare To Respond For Potential Data Breach To Timely Meet Notice & Other Response Duties
Businesses that experience data breaches affecting customer banking credit card, tax, social security or certain other personal financial or other sensitive information like those reported by like Chipotle, Target, Home Depot and a growing multitude of other businesses generally bear a legal … Continue reading
Posted in Board of Directors, CEO, CFO, Compliance, Cyber, D&O, data breach, Data Security, Director Liability, E&O, Employee Benefits, Employment, Fiduciary Responsibility, Fraud, Health Plans, Internal Controls, Leadership, Officers, Officers Liability, Performance Management, Privacy, Retirement Plans, Tax
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10 Practical Pointers To Use Law To Better Strengthen The Legal Defensibility Of Your Business & Its Leaders
Businesses and their leaders struggling to managing the ever-changing and constantly growing regulatory and other legal risks inherent in operating a business in today’s litigation and enforcement-charged environment often miss invaluable opportunities by failing to take certain basic steps that strengthen their liability defenses and the effectiveness of their risk management and compliance efforts.
While each organization and leader needs to carefully tailor its organizational risk management and compliance programs to meet the unique needs and challenges of its operations, all risk management and compliance efforts generally should incorporate and operate on at least each of the following 10 Corporate Governance processes:
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Posted in Bankruptcy, Board of Directors, CEO, CFO, Compliance, D&O, Data Security, Deferred Compensation Plans, Director Liability, Director Liabiloity, Employee Benefits, Employment, Fiduciary Responsibility, Fraud, Health Plans, Internal Controls, Labor Relations, M&A, Officers Liability, Privacy, Reductions In Force, Reengineering, Retirement Plans, Risk Management, Shareholder Liability, Stock Plans, Tax, Turnaround Management
Tagged Attorney-Client Privilege, Board of Directors, CEO, CFO, Compliance, Compliance Plan, Corporate Compliance, Corporate Governance, Fiduciary Liability, General Counsel, Internal Control, Risk, Risk Management
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IRS Guidance On Section 1446 Withholding Tax On Foreign Individual Partners Released
The Internal Revenue Service is publish a clarifying correction to fix potentially misleading information in its final regulations for reporting and withholding of foreign income by foreign financial institutions for 2014. As corrected, the correction with provide, “With respect to … Continue reading
Posted in CEO, Director Liabiloity, Employee Benefits, Employment, Fiduciary Responsibility, Health Plans, Tax
Tagged CFO, Compliance, fianance, Fiduciary Liability, Fiduciary Responsibility, health care reform, health insurance, health plans, Human Resources, Officers & Directors, risk managmenet
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Money Services Business Pays $45K CMP For Violating BSA Reporting Requirements
Mian, Inc., doing business as Tower Package Store, a money services business (MSB) is learning an expensive of the risks of failing to report cash transactions and other anti-money laundering (AML) requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). It’s paying … Continue reading
Posted in Bankruptcy, CEO, D&O, Director Liabiloity, Employment, Fiduciary Responsibility, Fraud, Internal Controls, M&A, Officers, Reengineering, Shareholder Liability, Tax, Uncategorized
Tagged Compliance, directors liability, Employer, employment, facebook, Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Internal Controls, labor law, linkedin, NLRB, officers liability, Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, social media, Sox, unfair labor practices, union
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Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Risk Operations Compliance 