The Best S Corporation, Limited Liability, and Partnership Update Course by Surgent
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price $299.00
Non-Member Price $424.00
Overview
This year practitioners need to keep abreast of tax changes affecting pass-through entities used by their business clients and employers, and this enlightening course delivers that information. You will learn invaluable strategies, techniques, innovative tax-planning concepts, income-generating ideas, and other planning opportunities available to S corporations, partnerships, LLCs, and LLPs. In addition, this course will discuss current trends and emerging issues, helping practitioners stay informed about relevant and significant topics that may impact their clients. Continually updated to reflect enacted legislation.
Objectives
- Understand the major issues on which taxpayers and the IRS are in conflict
- Understand recent IRS guidance and legislation impacting pass-through entities
Highlights
- Congressional Budget Reconciliation Process - explore how this powerful legislative tool allows Congress to fast track tax law changes and how it could be used to enact significant tax reforms in the current political climate
- President Trump's tax proposals - review key components of President Trump's tax agenda, including a tip income exemption, overtime pay relief, Social Security tax exemption, auto loan interest deductibility, SALT deduction modifications, a lower corporate tax rate, restoration of 100% bonus depreciation, immediate R&D expensing, and permanent extension of select TCJA provisions
- Potential expiration of select TCJA provisions - understand the implications for taxpayers as key provisions of the TCJA approach sunset dates
- Tariff policy and implementation - analyze the use of tariffs as a fiscal and trade policy tool
- Principles and considerations for nonresident withholding, composite payments, and passthrough entity taxes
- Partnership Distributions, Form 7217, and S Corporation Redemptions
- Thinking beyond §163(j) -- Interest Allocation Rules, Original Issue Discount, Applicable High Yield Discount Obligations, Convertible Corporate Debt Instruments, and Debt-Financed Distributions
- Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation
- Selected Practice and Reporting Issues: What’s new?
- A review of recent cases and tax law changes and IRS guidance affecting S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and limited liability partnerships
- Form 1099-K reporting requirements
- Bonus depreciation
- Section 174 Research & Experimental Expenditures -- guidance under Notice 2023-63 and Notice 2024-12
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
Designed For
All tax practitioners, both those working in public accounting as well as those in private industry, who need the latest information on tax changes affecting their business clients or employers
Prerequisites
Experience with pass-through entity clients
Preparation
None
Notice
To access this program, log into your CTCPA account at https://www.ctcpas.org/my-cpe/upcoming and click on the orange "Launch Event" button.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Robert Lickwar Jr., Partner, UHY Advisors, NE, LLC
Bob has over 30 years of experience as a practicing CPA, andhas worked exclusively with privately held businesses and owners to provide compliance services and sophisticated tax planning strategies including like-kind exchanges, tax-efficient workouts and restructurings, reorganizations and estate planning services. Bob is also a nationally recognized presenter on various tax issues and is a well-known discussion leader providing continuing education seminars to tax professionals. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: •Extensive experience in dealing with tax authorities at both the federal and state levels •Develops tax-favored and other retirement plans for clients •Assists in developing tax efficient succession transitions, including acquisitions and sales of businesses •Expertise in the taxation of small businesses and their owners, specializing in many areas of domestic taxation, including real estate, multi-state, business and individual taxation BACKGROUND: •Licensed CPA in the state of Connecticut •M.S. in Taxation, University of Hartford •B.S. in Accounting, Central Connecticut State University THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: •Nationally recognized presenter on Federal and State Taxation issues •Quoted in “Everything to Know About the New $3,000 Child Tax Credit”, U.S. News & World Report, March 2021 •Moderated “The CARES Act and Its Impact on Your Business and Benefit Plans”, UHY Webinar, February 2021 •Quoted in “IRS backlog causing problems for taxpayers”, Marketplace, February 2021 •Quoted in “IRS Rule Would Make Managing Trusts, Estates More Efficient”, Bloomberg Tax, May 2020 •Speaker for Berlin Continuing Adult Education small business seminars •Speaker for Farmington Continuing Adult Education small business seminars •Local radio station tax expert guest •Received the Author Award from the Connecticut Society of CPA’s State Tax Committee •Articles featured in the Taxation for Accountants, The Journal of Accountancy, and local newspapers
Non-Member Price $424.00
Member Price $299.00