The Differences Between An Enrolled Agent And A Certified Public Accountant

By Traci Rutter, EA Enrolled Agents (EAs) are federally-licensed tax practitioners who may represent taxpayers before the IRS when it comes to collection, audits and appeals.  They are granted unlimited practice rights to represent taxpayers before the IRS and are authorized to advise, represent, and prepare tax returns for individuals, partnerships, corporations, estates, trust and […]

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Tracking Global Equity Through Automation

How to manage global equity compensation is an increasingly complicated question. The answer? Automation. The world is getting smaller, and while the emergence of a globally mobile workforce has allowed companies to maximize talent where it’s most needed, it has simultaneously generated a host of challenges when it comes to managing executive compensation. The taxation […]

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IRS Proposes Regulations Under Section 1061

On July 31, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published proposed regulations (REG-107213-18) under Section 1061 relating to the taxation of so-called carried interests. Section 1061 generally provides that certain long-term capital gains may be recharacterized as short-term capital gain if the holding period associated with the […]

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