January 12, 2024It used to be that individuals would go online themselves with the appropriate Secretary of State office and submit a…
January 9, 2024Before I get into explaining my experience using the FinCEN website to register one of my existing entities so…- January 9, 2024What is meant by “substantial control”? Under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the definition of substantial control is distinct from…
January 9, 2024The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is here and now in full force and effect. In 2021, Congress passed this legislation…
January 4, 2023This is the eighth and final article in a series discussing eight bad “D”s to consider when drafting an…
December 29, 2022This is the seventh in a series discussing eight bad “D”s to consider when drafting an operating agreement…- December 28, 2022This is the sixth in a series discussing eight bad “D”s to consider when drafting an operating agreement for an…
December 22, 2022This is the fifth in a series discussing eight bad "D"s to consider when drafting an operating agreement for an…
December 19, 2022This is the fourth in a series of emails discussing eight bad “D”s to consider when drafting an operating agreement…
December 13, 2022This is the third in a series discussing eight bad “D”s to consider when drafting an operating agreement for…
December 13, 2022This is the second in a series discussing eight bad “D”s to consider when drafting an operating agreement for…
December 13, 2022When I draft LLC operating agreements for clients, or when I review ones that someone else has drafted, I look…- May 6, 2022For the better part of the last two decades, there has been a lot of “asset protection” information circulating…
March 22, 2022On more than one occasion, I’ve heard my friend John Hyre make the statement, “The books tell a story.” …
March 17, 2022This series of emails on the recent Tax Court decision involving the McNultys and their IRA-owned LLC, of which…
March 15, 2022An important practice taught to me early in law school was that when you read a court decision, always…
March 9, 2022This is the second in a series of articles I am doing relative to checkbook control questions that have…
March 9, 2022When I use the term “checkbook control”, I’m referring to a situation in the self-directed IRA investing world in…- May 24, 2021You may recall seeing commercials on television in which one person eating chocolate bumps into another person eating peanut butter. …
May 24, 2021You’re operating your business or LLC as an S-corporation, or so you think. Then you learn you had to file…
