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  May 2013 (4) Truncation of Tax ID Numbers Advances Home Office Deduction Safe Harbor Useful, But Care Required IRS Nabs $5.5 Billion from Hidden Overseas Accounts, More to Come A Detailed Report on the Ways & Means Hearing on Tax Reform and Residential Real Estate April 2013 (2) Real Estate Tax Breaks are Focus of Ways and Means Committee Tax Reform Hearing Same-sex Couples/Employers Should Consider Protective Refund Claims March 2013 (4) Accountant's Fraud Allows IRS to Make Late Assessment Against Company UK Bribery Act: More Clarity Unlikely Anytime Soon Expats May Not Offset Net Investment Income Tax With Foreign Tax Credit Sequestration: The Potential Impact on the Workforce Mobility Industry January 2013 (7) EU Announces One-Year Delay of Air Carrier Carbon Tax Plan Congress Addresses Defective Drywall from China Worldwide ERC's 2012 Filing Season Tips for Transferees IRS Modifies Voluntary Worker Classification Settlement Program IRS Publishes 2013 Withholding Tables Fiscal Cliff Deal Includes Relief Important to Mobility New Jersey State Appraiser Board Issues Opinion on Use of Broker Price Opinions December 2012 (2) Alternative Minimum Tax Could Affect 100 Million Taxpayers IRS Issues Guidance on New Medicare Taxes November 2012 (2) WERC® and CERC Cross Border Recommendations Continue to be Implemented Mileage Allowances Up Slightly for 2013 October 2012 (3) Active Year for AMC Registration Legislation Taxpayer Wins Case of Severance Payment FICA, Companies May Wish to File Claims for Refund New Social Security Wage Base, COL Adjustment Issued September 2012 (3) U.S. Elevates Efforts against EU Air Carrier Carbon Tax House Passes Less Restrictive Bill on Federal Employee Travel to Conferences IRS Issues Disappointing Streamlined Procedures for Unreported Offshore Accounts August 2012 (4) Defining Capital Improvements for Loss on Sale Can be Tricky Prospects Improve for Extension of Expiring Tax Breaks Olympics Spark Tax Controversy Moving Expense One-Year Rule Often Can Be Extended July 2012 (6) Fannie/Freddie Face Liability for Billions in Transfer Taxes Update on Employment-Based Visa Cap Issues States Wind Down Consideration of AMC Company Registration Legislation Expiring Tax Cuts Set Stage for Active Congressional Lame Duck Session House Committee Eases Potential Restrictions on Federal Employee Travel to Conferences New Medicare Taxes On High Income Taxpayers To Go Into Effect After Supreme Court Healthcare Decision June 2012 (1) Caps on Costs in Home Sale Programs Are Not Advisable May 2012 (5) Congress and the Administration Move to Restrict Federal Employee Travel to Conferences Debt Forgiveness in Short Sales May Be Taxable Ministers Renew Mandate of Financial Action Task Force through 2020 Bill to Restrict Taxation of Workers Temporarily in a State Passes House IRS Relaxes Rules on Local Lodging Expenses April 2012 (2) Home Office Deduction Can Save Substantial Taxes States Continue to Consider Appraisal Management Company Registration Legislation March 2012 (4) Identity Theft Tax Fraud a Growing Issue Pressure Intensifies on EU over Airline Carbon Tax Canadians in U.S. Must Report Canadian Retirement Plans To Avoid Serious Problems Accountable Plan Rules Are a Tricky Part of Relocations and Temporary Assignments February 2012 (5) Foreign Housing Exclusion Amounts Issued for 2012 Payroll Tax Cut to be Extended States Attorneys General Reach Settlement on Improper Foreclosure Practices Frequent Flier Miles-Taxable? U.S. and Canada Issue Border Action Plan January 2012 (4) Worker Visits to New Location-Taxable or Not? IRS Searches for Unreported Gifts of Real Estate President Obama Appoints Cordray as First Director of CFPB Worldwide ERC’s 2011 Filing Season Tax Tips for Transferees December 2011 (6) European Court Upholds Carbon Tax on EU Flights Congress Provides Temporary Holiday Gift by Extending Payroll Tax Cut Regulations Issued on Foreign Asset Reporting Mileage Allowance Little Changed for 2012 Bill to Standardize Taxation of Workers Temporarily in a State Advances Short Sales And Mortgage Relief Top the Federal Mortgage Agenda This Month November 2011 (3) Congress Orders Higher Federal Mortgage Limits Short Sales and the Relocation Home Sale Process Short Takes: U.S. Real Estate Markets Do Not Look Good Going Into 2012. DOJ Official Promises “Guidance” On the FCPA. October 2011 (3) Social Security, IRS Announce Inflation Increases North Carolina Law Change May Affect Use of Blank Deed Worldwide ERC and AMSA Educate Super Committee About Moving Expenses September 2011 (5) IRS Rings Off on Employer Provided Cell Phones IRS and DOL Team Up on Worker Classification; IRS Implements New Voluntary Compliance Program New Jersey Modifies its Bulk Sales Act China and India Take Action Against Corruption Neither Moving Expense Rules, Nor Identity of Owner, Nor Status of Home, Affect Tax Treatment of Home Purchase Programs. August 2011 (4) Worldwide ERC Comments on GSA Proposed Gross-up Regulations IRS Moves to Enforce Trust Fund Penalties Against Payroll Services IRS Provides Extension to File Highway Use Tax Returns Downgraded. Now What? July 2011 (8) A 44 Cent Solution? The Effect on the Employee Mobility Industry of a Government Shutdown. Update: Short Sales Become Less Complicated as the FTC Modifies its Position on MARS Payback Agreements: An Important Policy Tool, but Tough Tax Issues Update: Loan Limits on Federally Backed Mortgages GSA Issues Proposed Regulation Changing Federal Government Gross-up Rules Design of IRS Special Employment Tax Audits Faulted by Treasury IG Update: Defective Drywall Litigation Update: UK Bribery Act June 2011 (6) Is the Worker an Employee, or an Independent Contractor? How to Avoid Problems. IRS Increases Mileage Rates Short Takes: The QRM Battle and the Effect of the NJ Bulk Sales Act Short Sales: A Relocation Checklist Short Sales: The New Normal? New Bill Would Restrict Taxation of Workers Temporarily in a State May 2011 (3) Treasury Regulations Delay 3% Government Payment Withholding The State of U.S. Real Estate: Continued Whistleblowers to Face Tax Withholding April 2011 (8) Short Takes: Appraisal Legislation Defeated; QRM Fight Heats Up States Hunt for Revenue and (Re)Discover the Real Estate Services Tax? What is Going On In The Housing Market These Days? Problems Plague Homebuyer Credit Program Federal Government Shutdown: Ho-Hum or OMG? UK Bribery Act Guidelines Issued – Enforcement Starts in July 1099 Repeal Update: Court Delays Implementation of Loan Officer Compensation Rule March 2011 (9) The Fuss over Loan Officer Compensation Rules NCAR Adds an Option to Standard Sales Contract Tax Relief Law Inadvertently Reinstates Full Deduction for Luxury SUV’s Kansas Creates Tax-Free Zones for New Residents A Flurry of FCPA Enforcement Before the Supreme Court: Can a Plaintiff Mine Government Records for False Claims Act Suits? States Pursue Hidden Offshore Accounts, Seek to Address Budget Deficits IRS Whistleblower Claims Increase Under New Law An Update of Two Privacy Cases February 2011 (7) IRS Provides Rules on Government Mortgage Assistance Payments The U.S. Starts to Rebuild its Housing Finance Market Canada Tweaks Mortgage Rules Repeal of New Form 1099 Requirements Picks Up Steam U.K. Bribery Act of 2010: Implementation Delayed Again Private Transfer Fee Covenants: A Thing of the Past? Mortgage Interest Deduction At Risk in Congress January 2011 (7) The Current State of the U.S. Real Estate Market IRS Letters Notify Taxpayers of Possible Homebuyer Repayment Obligation Two Privacy Cases to Watch Illinois Enacts Tax Increases to Reduce Deficit 2010 Filing Season Tax Tips for Transferees IRS Issues Flurry of Tax Filiing Guidance Hodgepodge of Short Takes: China, U.S. Housing Market, and RESPA Litigation December 2010 (9) Domestic Home Sales: 2010 Tools That Can Help Manage 2011 Realities Delaware Provides New Form to Implement Real Estate Sales Estimated Tax Final Word on the FTC’s Red Flags Rules is good for the Employee Mobility Industry Tax Rates Stay the Same, and Other Good News Whistleblower and Qui Tam Statutes need to be Top of Mind in Compliance Programs Renting and the Capital Gain Home Sale Exclusion Red Flags Furled? Mileage Allowance Goes Up for 2011 The Moon and the Sun? It’ll Cost You November 2010 (9) The U.K. Bribery Act Goes into Effect in April 2011 with Broad Application to Companies Doing Business There – Even Indirectly Thanksgiving Tax Fight Brews in Congress Genetic Information Added to “Do Not Ask” List In the U.S Deficit Commission Draft Would Eliminate Mortgage Interest Deduction, Reduce Rates Foreign Payments and Form W-8: Is Withholding or Reporting Required? Secondary Lien Holders Gain Clout in U.S. Real Property Foreclosure Sales Election Impact on Expiring Tax Cuts and Other Tax Issues Foreclosures and the Housing Market: the Saga Continues New information reporting requirement for employees who rent out their home October 2010 (9) It’s Not Easy Being Green (Apologies to Kermit the Frog) What to do about the “Red Flags” Rule? Delaware enacts withholding law for nonresident real estate sellers IRS grants one-year delay for W-2 health care reporting Banks Lose More Paperwork – Many Foreclosures Stop (For Now) Congress Mandates Plain Writing (Except for Congress) Banks Lose Paperwork – Foreclosures Slow Down An Important Lesson from a Cranberry Fight IRS Ruling Allows Casualty Loss for Corrosive Drywall September 2010 (8) Same Sex Couples Win Joint Filing Case Some Mortgage Originators Get A Break From “Skin in the Game” Requirements Healthcare law imposes new sales tax on real estate?-NOT Risk Management Issues for Predecision Counseling Programs Small Business Breaks Advance, but Relief from New 1099 Requirement Doesn't Timing is Everything. And Dodd-Frank is No Exception. State Taxes: New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island Peeking Under A Corner Of Dodd-Frank August 2010 (10) Tax Reform Panel Wants to Simplify the Tax Code The Devil is in the Details US Real Estate: Déjà Vu All Over Again? Should Companies Help with Homebuyer Credit Repayments? Illinois offers new tax amnesty No Surprise: Dodd-Frank Affects Us, Too. In More Ways Than We Will Know For Years. Last Weeks' U.S. Mortgage Activity Increase Was More Refinancing than New Sales Reporting Requirement Creates New Burdens New Federal Attempt to Prevent Foreclosures Announced About Mobility LawBlog

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