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As the new year begins, there are a number of unique estate/gift tax planning opportunities as a result of the IRS cutting interest rates.

In a decision handed down on Jan. 16, 2008, the United States Supreme Court in “Knight v. Commissioner” ruled that the income tax deduction for trust investment advisory fees is subject to the 2 percent floor limitation applicable to all miscellaneous itemized deductions.

With the ink now dry on The Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 which, among other things, raised the capital gains tax rate from 15% to 20% and the top income tax bracket of "high income" Americans from 35% to 39.6%, Senate Democrats have now proposed the "American Family Economic Protection Act" which defers the sequestration for the remainder of 2013 by (i) raising the income tax on millionaires, (ii) increasing future military cuts and (iii) cutting farm subsidies.

The FMLA entitles eligible employees to take unpaid, job-protected leave "to care for the employee’s spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition."

Lower paid employees often are hesitant to participate in a high deductible health plan due to the potential for large out-of-pocket payments.

Wage and hour compliance continues to be a hot spot for employers, with increased enforcement efforts by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) as well as a rising trend of private Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) lawsuits.

Electronic wage payment can benefit employers and employees alike.

For decades, federal courts have uniformly concluded that a plaintiff with a viable benefits claim was generally precluded from seeking "equitable relief" under ERISA.

Lots of people are looking into lots of crystal balls trying to figure out what will become of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

On April 1, 2014, employers will be permitted to submit new H-1B petitions to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for Fiscal Year 2015.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case expected to have a major impact on the global agricultural industry, individual farmers, and research and development efforts directed to genetically modified crops.

IRS Revenue Ruling 2008-13 (available here), issued on Feb. 21, 2008, “could disqualify many payments that were intended to be performance-based compensation under 162(m)”.

The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of a major motion picture studio, movie distributor and music company yesterday.

In a recent appellate court decision, the members of a retirement committee for a large employer were found personally at fault for their failure to have a deep understanding of the marketplace for administrative services.

There was a time when class-action lawsuits against lenders who financed dealer-generated automobile loans were all the rage.

Our country currently faces unsustainable deficits and our federal leaders have to make difficult budget cuts in the near future, including to our military.

A federal jury in San Francisco recently returned guilty verdicts on all counts in the first criminal trial involving backdated stock options.