Articles
Tax strategy, exit planning, and compliance thinking from our partners. Read on a phone. Then call or text the front desk.
Exit Planning
QSBS under Section 1202 after the 2025 updates
For stock acquired after July 4, 2025: 50/75/100 percent after 3/4/5 years, $15M limitation, $75M assets test. Legacy stock follows prior rules. California does not conform.
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Exit Planning
Before You Sell the Company, Decide What You’re Really Selling
Two owners can sell for the same price and keep very different amounts. Structure, not valuation, decides the after-tax outcome.
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Exit Planning
Pre-Sale Entity Restructuring: The Tax Playbook
The best time to restructure is before a buyer shows up.
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Exit Planning
Earnouts & Installment Sales: §453 Planning
Defer gains over time using installment sale elections.
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IRS Defense
IRS Penalty Abatement: Building a Reasonable Cause Argument
$18M+ in penalties abated. Here's the framework we use.
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IRS Defense
IRS Audit: What Happens Next
Audit notice in hand? Here's the playbook from intake to resolution.
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IRS Defense
Voluntary Disclosure: IRS Offshore Account Resolution
Coming forward before they come to you.
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Real Estate
1031 Exchange After Selling a Business
Redeploy capital into real estate without triggering capital gains.
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Real Estate
DST Structures: Strategy, Risk & Tax Treatment
A Delaware Statutory Trust can hold a 1031 replacement property. We structure the tax outcome with counsel. We do not place the securities.
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Real Estate
Cost Segregation & Depreciation Recapture Planning
Accelerate deductions now. Plan for recapture later.
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Cross-Border
1031 Considerations for Foreign Investors
FIRPTA, treaty elections, and how foreign nationals use like-kind exchanges.
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Cross-Border
Selling a U.S. Business as a Canadian Resident
Dual-country obligations, treaty elections, and FIRPTA withholding.
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Cross-Border
FIRPTA Withholding for Nonresident Sellers
Reduce or eliminate the 15% withholding with timely elections.
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Estate & Trusts
Estate Tax Risk for Nonresidents with U.S. Assets
A $60K exemption. That's all nonresidents get.
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Estate & Trusts
Trust Strategies for Business Owners
Gifting, Roth conversions, and trust structures that keep the IRS away.
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Estate & Trusts
Roth Conversion Strategy for High-Income Earners
Pay the tax now. Build tax-free wealth for decades.
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Entity & Advisory
Entity Selection: A Business Owner's Guide
S-Corp, C-Corp, LLC, why entity form changes the tax result.
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Entity & Advisory
Compensation Strategy for Owner-Employees
Salary vs distributions vs retirement contributions, mapped correctly.
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Entity & Advisory
R&D Tax Credit for Business Owners
Qualified research expenses you're probably not claiming.
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Entity & Advisory
State Tax Nexus for Multistate Businesses
Where you owe depends on where you operate. Nexus follows where you operate, not only where you formed.
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