What Private Client Advisors Should Know about U.S. Taxation Relief in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Paul Marcotte was a panelist for a seminar titled “What Private Client Advisors Should Know about U.S. Taxation Relief in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic,” hosted by STEP Mid Atlantic.
The unprecedented and detrimental effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. economy has prompted federal, state and local governments to implement a series of legislative and administrative responses that directly impact the area of taxation. Presenters provided an overview of COVID-19 governmental responses impacting domestic and cross-border tax matters.
Topics included:
- The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) provisions amending the U.S. Internal Revenue Code:
- an overview of the tax provisions impacting businesses and individuals
- planning opportunities and pitfalls arising under the CARES Act
- how certain provisions may benefit domestic planning but detriment international tax planning
- IRS administrative releases impacting 2019 federal tax payments, filings and refunds
- Unresolved issues impacting nonresident alien individuals and foreign corporations from nonresident cross-border workers/high-net-worth individuals stranded in the United States:
- the income tax residence status of stranded nonresident aliens – and potential triggering of U.S. worldwide taxation and resultant tax compliance burdens for 2020
- the creation of U.S. trade, business or permanent establishment status and the related tax and compliance aspects
- the residence status of a company (effective place of management)
- A high-level overview of state and local tax agency relief responses
Paul Marcotte Chairs the firm’s Tax practice group and is a member of its Estate Planning, Estate & Trust Administration and Nonprofit groups.
The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) is the global professional association for practitioners who specialize in family inheritance and succession planning.