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FALL: Volume 19, Number 3
WINTER (Volume 19, Number 1)
2015
- Federal and Oregon Income Tax Planning for Trusts
- Income Tax Issues Impacting Oregon’s Medical Marijuana Businesses
- Taxation in Popular Culture: The Blues Brothers
- Larry J. Brant Wins Award of Merit
- New Tax Lawyer Committee Nominations
- Tax Section Executive Committee Nominations
- Future Events
- When Is An Esop Appropriate?
- Misinterpretations of ORS 305.217 Are Resulting in Taxpayers Losing Valid Deductions for Amounts Paid to Service Providers
- If You’re Late, You Can’t Return! Discharge of Tax From Late Return in Doubt
- Portland Luncheon Series
- Future Events
2014
- IRS Notice IR-2014-73: New FBAR Relief for Residents and Non-Residents.
- Avoiding Penalties Under The Affordable Care Act.
- Taxation in Popular Culture: National Treasure Franchise.
- IRS Application For Smaller 501(C)(3) Nonprofits Made Easier.
- New Tax Lawyer Committee.
- Mark A. Golding Wins Award of Merit.
- Future Events.
- Regulations Meet the Real World: The Net Investment Income Tax Sees Its First Filing Season (and Not Without Plenty of Challenges)
- Circular 230 Changes
- IRS Application of United States vs. Windsor to Section 401 Retirement Plans
- Challenging the Motive of an IRS Summons – US v. Clarke
- Inherited IRAs Are Not Protected from Creditor Claims – Clark v. Rameker
- How Oregon Taxes Its Visiting Workforce
- Citizens United and Its Aftermath: A 501(c)(4) Quagmire
- New Tax Lawyer Commitee (NTLC)
- Seeking Nominations For The Award of Merit
- Save the Date for 14th Annual Oregon Tax Institute
- 2014 Oregon Tax Institute
2013
- 2013 Oregon Legislative Sessions: Tax Law Developments
- The Honorable Henry C. Breithaupt Wins Oregon State Bar Taxation Section Award of Merit
- Credits Against the Oregon Corporate Minimum Tax Under Con-way, Inc. & Affiliates v. Department of Revenue – Oregon Supreme Court Update
- Taxation Section Mentor Program End of Year Celebration
- IRS and DOL Adopt “Place of Celebration” Marriage Rule for Retirement Plans
- Taxation in Popular Culture: Pursuit of Happyness
- Paying the Cost of Certainty: ORS 316.032(2)
- US Tax Implications of Real Property Investments by Non-US Investors
- IRS Considers Guidance and Seeks Comments on Property Simultaneously Held for Sale or Lease (“Dual-Use Property”)
- Does the Apportionment Election Under the Multistate Tax Compact Survive State Law to the Contrary?
- Save the Date: Oregon Tax Institute
- Left Coast Economic Nexus
- Attorney Fees in the Oregon Tax Court
- John H. Draneas Wins Oregon State Taxation Section Award of Merit
- Treasury Proposes Necessary and Long-Awaited Amendments to Circular 230 — Written Advice Disclaimers May Be a Thing of the Past
- Credits Against the Oregon Corporate Minimum Tax Under Con-Way, Inc. & Affiliates v. Department of Revenue
2012
- Navigating the New BETC Landscape
- The Oregon Tax Court Examines P.L. 86-272 in the Ann Sacks Decision
- Recent FBAR Developments: New FBAR Penalty Relief for Nonresident US Taxpayers (IR-2012-65) and Voluntary Disclosure Program Extended
- Mid-Valley Tax Forum Luncheon Series
- 2013 Oregon State Bar Taxation Section Luncheon Series
- Portland Tax Forum Breakfast Series
- Dan Eller – 2012 Mentor of the Year
- Hot Spots in US-Canada Tax Planning
- Upcoming Tax Section Events
- Fiduciary and Transferee Liability for a Decedent’s Taxes
- The Effects of AT&T v. Oregon Department of Revenue
- Unrelated Business Income Tax: A Primer
- 12th Annual Tax Institut
2011
- Oregon Taxation of the Sale of LLC Interests
- Facilitating Fraud: The Perils of Cooperating with a Tax Avoidance Scheme
- Oregon Businesses Benefit from Income Tax Reconnect
- (Personal) Goodwill Hunting: Why it Pays To Re-read Martin Ice Cream Co.
- The Tax Lawyer Can Help Ease the Impact of the Estate Tax Burden After the Death of Business Owner
- S Corporation Inadvertent Terminations
- Welcome to Washington: Expanded Nexus in an Age of Fiscal Uncertainty
- Taxation of Oregonians Living and Working Abroad
- The Husband and Wife Qualified Joint Venture Filing Option: Proper Social Security and Medicare Crediting and Simplified Tax Reporting
- The IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative: The IRS Serves Up an Additional (Final?) Round of FBAR Relief
2010
- State of the State’s Settlement Offer Program
- New Income Tax Increases
- Senate Bill 880: Oregon’s Tax Amnesty Program
- Governor Vetoes Cuts to BETC
- Unemployment Taxes and Independent Contractor Status under ORS 670.600
- Life in Oregon After Presumptively Retroactive Rules — Senate Bill 498 (2009)
- Discharging and Releasing Real and Personal Property from Tax Liens
- Jeffrey Wong Wins Mentor of the Year Award
- Expatriating Under the HEART Act: It’s Hard to Say Goodbye
- City of Portland Business License and Multnomah County Income Tax – An Overview
- Strange Bedfellows: For-Profit/ Non-Profit Partnerships
- Upcoming Event Calendar
- S Corporation LLCs – Sometimes a Great Notion
- A Sad Reminder About Responsible Person Liability
- Taxation of Business Owned Life Insurance: The Trap is Set
- New Washington Law Imposes Sales Tax on Digital Goods
- Correction: New Top Marginal Personal Income Tax Rates
2009
- New §1031 Safe Harbor for “Dwelling Units”
- Failures of IRC §1031
- Your Clients’ Foreign Connections: a Primer on the FBAR Filing Obligations
- Corporate Cash Payments to Directors Are Not Subject to Unemployment Taxation
- “Hit the Road, Jack—And Don’t You Pay [Oregon] Tax No More?”
- IRS Offers in Compromise
- Employment Taxes and Disregarded Entities after January 1, 2009
- Oregon Department of Revenue Adopts New “Costs of Performance” Standard
- Message From the Chair 11 Upcoming Events Calendar
2008
- Oregon Adopts Its Own Version of FIRPTA
- Pro Bono Opportunities for Tax Attorneys
- What You Should Know About Property Taxes in Oregon
- Oregon Department of Revenue Adopts “Economic Presence” Standard for Determining Nexus
- The Oregon Business Energy Tax Credit
- Tax Aspects of Marriage and Divorce; Similarities and Contrasts With Domestic Partnerships
- Ten Things Every Tax Lawyer Should Know About Tax Liens
2007
- The Oregon Residential Energy Tax Credit Program
- The Oregon Department of Revenue Pushes Nexus Arguments in Attempt to Bring More “Out-of-State” Taxpayers into Oregon
- Select Tax Legislative Highlights
- Use of Profits-Only Interests as Compensation Arrangement for LLCs
- Global Tax Advisors Need To Understand New Rules Governing U.S. GAAP Accounting for Uncertain Income Tax Positions
- Oregon Credits – Contributions to a Trust for Cultural Development
- Lawyer Liability for Assisting in Breach of Fiduciary Duty: Privilege or Peril?
- Famous Foolish Blunders – Ignoring the Evolution of Circular 230
- The Gauntlet of Withholding on Nonresident Alien Beneficiaries of Estates and Trusts
2006
- New Rules Governing Oregon Taxation of Nonresident Income
- Unrelated Business Taxable Income
- Washington’sNew Apportionment for Service Based Business
- Community Property: Reporting Election Available For a Husband and Wife Qualified Business Entity
- Changing the Rules on Independent Contractors
- Taxation Section Listserv
- 2006TaxPrimer
2005
- Property Tax Exemptions in Oregon: Slips and Tips
- Public Law 86-272: A Primer—Part 2
- News From the Oregon Tax Court
- Tax Humor
- Treasury Department Circular 230 and Final Regulations
- 2005 Tax Legislation Highlights
- Tax Humor
2004
- Domestic Asset Protection Trusts
- Tax Tip for 2004 Oregon 529 College Savings Network
- Tax Humor
- Public Law 86-272: A Primer — Part 1
- Upcoming Tax Meetings
- What You Need to Know About Mediation, but Won’t Learn Anyplace Else
- Oregon Uniform Trust Code
- News From the Oregon Tax Court
- Legislation to Be Submitted by OSB Tax Section in 2005
- 39% Oregon Inheritance Tax Rate?
- Upcoming Tax Meetings
- Multnomah County and Portland City Business Taxes
- News from the IRS
- Study of the Uniform Trust Code
- Tax Humor
- Upcoming Tax Meetings
2003
- IRS Issues Tenancy-in-Common Guidance for Like- Kind Exchange
- Understanding Washington’s Business and Occupation Tax
- Taxing Humor
- Upcoming Tax Meetings
- Application of “Passive Loss” Restrictions
- Proposed Amendments to Tax Section Bylaws
- News from the Oregon Tax Court
- Message from the President
- Oregon Pickup Inheritance Tax
- Upcoming Tax Meetings
- Taxing Humor
2002
- The IRS Reorganization: An Agency in Crisis
- 9-1-1: Taxpayer Calling the National Taxpayer Advocate
- Ethics in Handling Information in Tax Audits
- The Inheritance Tax Debacle continues….
- Upcoming Tax Meetings
- Legislative Update 8 Taxing Humor
- McLane and Fisher v. Dept. of Revenue and the Aftermath
- “Pick Up Tax” Pitfalls
- Tax and Estate Planning Considera- tions for Cohabiting Couples
- Tax Court Update
- Taxing Humor
- Upcoming Tax Meetings
- From the Editor
- Oregon’s Independent Contractor Statutes: Time for Change
- 2002 Oregon Tax Institute
- Legislative Update
- Upcoming Tax Meetings
- From the Editor
- Insights from Oregon’s Newest Tax Court Judge, Henry C. Breithaupt
- From the Editor
- President’s Message
- Tax Humor
- Taxation Legal Research on the Web
- Tax Ethics: Tax Shelters and Practitioner Tax Shelter Opinions
- Upcoming Tax Meetings