The Robison Blog
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March 1, 2005
The Power of Positive Tax Thinking, or The Cultural Legacy of Norman Vincent Peale
One of the more interesting telephone calls last week was a discussion with a taxpayer regarding his CPA's advice that assignment of income and transfer of assets to a trust would prevent a sale...
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February 1, 2005
LLC Operating Agreements
I have noticed an alarming tendency among some attorneys to eliminate highly complicated tax provisions from Limited Liability Company Operating Agreements as, “too complicated” or because they did...
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December 1, 2004
Are Family Limited Partnerships Tax Shelters?
We discussed in earlier newsletters the recent changes in Circular 230 regarding the characterization of written correspondence to clients as a “Tax Opinion”. Under Circular 230, “any partnership...
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October 1, 2004
Continuing Fallout from Tax Shelters on Business Clients
As a result of the well advertised abuse by large accounting firms and large law firms by their promotion of tax reduction transactions [TRT], a.k.a. tax shelters, the IRS personnel in ...