Foreign Accounts Compliance

By Stephen J. Dunn Few things are more important to an individual than planning his or her estate.  This determines who will receive your property at your death,...

By Stephen J. Dunn On September 24, 2010 the Federal Trade Commission sued American Tax Relief, LLC, of Beverly Hills, California, (“American Tax Relief”) and its owners, Alexander Seung...

By Stephen J. Dunn When the Federal estate tax returns on January 1, 2011, it will do so with a unified credit of only $1,000,000, unless Congress acts...

By Stephen J. Dunn Suppose that wife does not work in 2010, or that she works but has enough income tax withheld and remitted to taxing authorities to...

By Stephen J. Dunn Suppose you have negotiated settlements of your credit card debts.  Or maybe you have executed a short sale of your house.  You are concerned...

By Stephen J. Dunn Our country has proved time and again that a tax cut can energize our economy and bring us out of a recession. In 1921,...

By Stephen J. Dunn Tax resolution firms are a misnomer.  They exact high fees from unassuming consumers and seldom resolve anything.   These firms are a relatively recent development,...

By Stephen J. Dunn Lawyers’ code of professional responsibility forbids them from handling matters in which they have a conflict of interest. But conflicts of interest are common...

By Stephen J. Dunn Last month I wrote a column for Forbes about the tax reasons that spouses make lousy business partners. First, business-related tax problems could threaten both spouses’ assets...

By Stephen J. Dunn You receive the dreaded letter–the Internal Revenue Service is auditing your tax returns. In 2009 154 million individual income tax returns were filed with...

By Stephen J. Dunn Spouses generally do not make good business partners for many reasons. For example, when spouses work together in a business, it tends to dominate...