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Thursday, December 17, 2020 Webcast

The Best S Corporation, Limited Liability, and Partnership Update Course by Surgent (E2012061)

9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Registration: 8:30 AM EST

Webcast


8 CPE Credits in TX

OVERVIEW

This year practitioners need to keep abreast of tax changes affecting pass-through entities used by their business clients and employers, and this enlightening course delivers that information. You will learn invaluable strategies, techniques, innovative tax-planning concepts, income-generating ideas, and other planning opportunities available to S corporations, partnerships, LLCs, and LLPs. In addition, this course will discuss current trends and emerging issues, helping practitioners stay informed about relevant and significant topics that may impact their clients. Continually updated to reflect enacted legislation.

This course features a live instructor and has been specifically designed for the NJCPA.

DESIGNED FOR

All tax practitioners, both those working in public accounting as well as those in private industry, who need the latest information on tax changes affecting their business clients or employers

BENEFITS

  • Understand the major issues on which taxpayers and the IRS are in conflict
  • Understand recent IRS guidance and legislation impacting pass-through entities

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Congressional Budget Reconciliation Process - explore how this powerful legislative tool allows Congress to fast track tax law changes and how it could be used to enact significant tax reforms in the current political climate
  • President Trump's tax proposals - review key components of President Trump's tax agenda, including a tip income exemption, overtime pay relief, Social Security tax exemption, auto loan interest deductibility, SALT deduction modifications, a lower corporate tax rate, restoration of 100% bonus depreciation, immediate R&D expensing, and permanent extension of select TCJA provisions
  • Potential expiration of select TCJA provisions - understand the implications for taxpayers as key provisions of the TCJA approach sunset dates
  • Tariff policy and implementation - analyze the use of tariffs as a fiscal and trade policy tool
  • Principles and considerations for nonresident withholding, composite payments, and passthrough entity taxes
  • Partnership Distributions, Form 7217, and S Corporation Redemptions
  • Thinking beyond §163(j) - Interest Allocation Rules, Original Issue Discount, Applicable High Yield Discount Obligations, Convertible Corporate Debt Instruments, and Debt-Financed Distributions
  • Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation
  • Selected Practice and Reporting Issues: What’s new?
  • A review of recent cases and tax law changes and IRS guidance affecting S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and limited liability partnerships
  • Form 1099-K reporting requirements
  • Bonus depreciation
  • Section 174 Research & Experimental Expenditures -- guidance under Notice 2023-63 and Notice 2024-12
  • Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

COURSE LEVEL

Update

PREREQUISITES

Experience with pass-through entity clients

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

ADDITIONAL NOTES

  • Qualifies for IRS credit

INSTRUCTOR

John Evanich

John L. Evanich, CPA
(4.5)

Surgent Professional Education

John L. Evanich, Jr., CPA, is a retired tax partner, formerly with CohnReznick, LLP -- the 10th-largest CPA firm in the country. For more than 40 years, John specialized in working with professional service businesses, LLCs, LLPs, and S corporations on tax planning and other tax matters important to them. John has represented taxpayers on hundreds of IRS appeals and court petitions. With over 40 years of experience in public accounting, John is a past president of the Connecticut Society of CPAs (CTCPA), a past member of their Board of Governors, and a former trustee of their Educational Trust Fund. He is also a former member of AICPA Council. Mr. Evanich has lectured and written extensively on tax issues, both locally and nationally. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs. In 2015 and 2016, he received the Surgent Outstanding Discussion Leader Award because of his consistently high evaluations for knowledge and presentation skills. He has also served as chairman of many CTCPA committees, most notably the Federal Taxation, State Taxation, Public Relations, and Technical Consultation Services committees. John has also testified on tax matters of concern to middle- and upper-income taxpayers, as well as small businesses, before the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as various Connecticut state legislative committees. Mr. Evanich received a bachelor’s degree in accounting with honors from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut and completed all course work in the Master’s in Taxation program at Pace University in New York City.