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[01/12] Corporate Taxes, Gov't Spending Hit Records
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Payroll Taxes
Payroll taxes are taxes withheld or paid by an employer for or on behalf of employees on amounts paid the employee. Payroll taxes include federal income tax withholding, state income tax withholding, social security and Medicare taxes, and federal and state unemployment taxes. Taxes paid are based on compensation, which includes all items paid to or on behalf of an employee except for certain excludable amounts such as qualified reimbursed business expenses or nontaxable moving expenses.
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Substantiating the Business Use of Your Vehicle
Deducting expenses associated with the business use of a vehicle can be a substantial tax advantage. However, to do so, you need to keep good records to substantiate the deductions. Whoever drives the car-from the owner of the business to the most junior employee-must keep a daily log. There are also limited circumstances under which such record keeping is unnecessary. Below are some things to remember when keeping vehicle use records.
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Case Summaries
[01/12] US v. Hall
Defendant's conviction and sentence for conspiracy to distribute marijuana, money laundering, and related offenses is affirmed over his claims of error regarding: 1) sufficiency of the evidence; 2) Brady violation; 3) admission of evidence; 4) jury instruction; 5) improper testimony; 6) prosecutorial misconduct; and 7) forfeiture and sentencing errors; a limited remand is ordered pursuant to Booker.
[01/11] US v. Verduchi
Judgment against defendant-transferee in a fraudulent transfer case involving a transfer of real property from parents to defendant, their son, so as to evade tax liability is affirmed where there was no error or inequity in the trial court's judgment.
[01/11] Conner v. US
Order dismissing defendant's petitions to quash certain summonses issued by the IRS to third-party record keepers and granting the government's cross motion for enforcement of such summonses is affirmed in an ongoing criminal tax investigation.
[01/10] Timken US Corp. v. US
Decision upholding agency defendant's antidumping duty determination and its refusal to correct certain alleged errors associated with plaintiffs' home market sales is affirmed where there was no error in a remand of the case to defendant, and defendant's determination and refusal to correct alleged errors were supported by substantial evidence and were in accordance with the law.
[01/10] Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga
Documents submitted to a court in support of or in opposition to a motion for summary judgment are judicial documents to which a presumption of immediate public access attaches under both the common law and the First Amendment.
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