On February 3, 2021, the Iowa Court of Appeals issued an opinion in the case of Erwin v. Erwin, No. 19-1978 (Iowa Ct. App. Feb. 3, 2021). that involved a dispute between a father and son regarding the operation of their member/managed LLC. In 2012, the father and his spouse transferred title of farm ground owned by them into a LLC for estate planning purposes. The property was subject to a mortgage, however, the deed did not state that the transfer was subject to a mortgage. The father subsequently made a gift to his son of one-half of the membership
More Legal News & Information... →The Internal Revenue Service recently issued a Notice (Notice 2018-76) regarding the deductibility of business meal expenses under the new Tax Act. The Notice may be relied on until proposed regulations are published. The Notice provides that most business meal expenses will be 50 percent deductible as long as a separate invoice is provided for the food. The new Tax Act prohibits the deduction of entertainment expenses. It has been unclear until this Notice whether business meals involving a client or a potential client would fall into the entertainment expense category. As such, until the proposed regulations are published, a
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