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The following newsletters are available now, and can be accessed by clicking on the name of the topic:

Decedent's Partnership Interest - Handling the Step-Up in Tax Basis: The Section 754 Election / Mechanics / Hindsight Planning and Other Considerations
Tax Consequences of Foreclosure to Homeowners - An Overview: Including tax consequences of "upside down" properties / recourse v. nonrecourse debt
Today's Cost of an Audit Lottery Ticket - The "No Fault" Penalty: How the courts are responding to the substantial underpayment penalty
The "2-1/2 Month Rule" Lives On: Compensation to minority shareholders (and many others) still may not be currently deductible
Electing Out of Home Equity Indebtedness: What to do if your client uses a home equity loan for business or investment
Does Component Depreciation Live On?: The Tax Court invokes investment credit case law for MACRS
Sale of a Building - The 1997 Tax Act 67% "Default" Penalty
Obtaining documentation to allocate sales price may reduce the tax burden
Installment Sales - There Could Be A Wrong Time
Default and repossession can generate a current tax liability
Sale of a Building - The 1997 Tax Act 67% "Default" Penalty: Obtaining documentation to allocate sales price may reduce the tax burden
Installment Sales - There Could Be A Wrong Time
Default and repossession can generate a current tax liability
Installment Sales - There Could Be A Wrong Time: Default and repossession can generate a current tax liability
Effect of S Corps, LLCs and Covenants on Self-Employment Tax: That other tax - can we plan around it?

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