Tax Relief for Napa Earthquake Victims
The Franchise Tax Board today announced special tax relief for California taxpayers affected by the August 2014 Napa earthquake. President Obama declared Napa and Solano counties a major disaster on September 11, [...]
Corporate Deadbeats: How Companies Get Rich Off of Taxes
Newsweek has a great article this week on how the recent corporate inverstion trend is harmful to the ordinary John Q. Taxpayer: Corporate Deadbeats: How Companies Get Rich Off Of [...]
Gubernatorial Candidate Poses As Homeless Man…in Fresno!
Neel Kashkari, California's Republican candidate for governor spent a week living as a homeless person in Fresno, in search of a job to demonstrate the difficulty many California's face in this economy. [...]
Shelly Wins Right to Sell the Clippers . . . and how an obscure provision in the Probate Code made it unappealable
Just the other day, a Probate Court judge approved Shelly Sterling's request to confirm that Donald Sterling was properly removed as Trustee of the family trust for incompentency and that [...]
About Those Missing IRS Emails…
Although I've never had an instance of the IRS losing mine or a client's emails, I have had a run in with the California Board of Equalization. My client alleged [...]
Understanding Family Limited Partnerships: A Visual Demonstration
After some trial and error, I've finally put together the first in a series of explainer videos that will attempt to explain and demonstrate, in layman's terms, the key components and [...]