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Legal

Three Ways to Keep Your Green Card If Your Marriage Falls Apart

22nd March 2012
If an immigrant has been married less than 2 years when the immigrant is granted lawful permanent resident status, the immigrant will receive permanent resident status on a "conditional" basis. The usual rules: * The immigrant spouse's green card wi...
Author: Heather Poole, Esq.
Law

Energy Deregulation - The Good The Bad and The Ugly

14th June 2011
The process to begin Energy Deregulation began In 1978 when Congress pass the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, which was the beginning for Todays Deregulation. It wasn't until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission implemented The Energy Policy A...
Author: Rod
Taxes

Tax Deductions Tips For Personal Real Estate Traders

02nd June 2011
Tax deductions are not the top priority for most individual real estate traders. They often work out of their property with no personnel, other than those on-internet site at the home. Issues (apart from tax deductions) include picking what property to ob...
Author: MarkApplegate
Internet Law

ISP Liability for Internet Defamation

16th December 2010
Defamation is a serious problem on the Internet. For the same reason that the Web has become a great tool for research and mass dissemination of information, it has also become a tool for those who would seek to defame others. Some of the chief problem...
Author: Aaron Kelly
Taxes

Looming Tax Increases in 2011

20th October 2010
As we wait for Congress to take up a handful of tax and financial issues, taxpayers across the country are wondering what tax laws will change in 2011. A handful of tax cuts and incentives are scheduled to expire at the end of the year, and unless Congres...
Author: Roni Deutch
Immigration Law

The Deal with Green Card Lottery

26th March 2010
Referred to as Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, green card lottery is approved by the congress and administered yearly. Based on the law called Immigration Act of 1990, this aimed to help people of underdeveloped country to enjoy the maximum benefits of...
Author: Usafis
Trusts

Qualified Personal Residence Trusts

25th March 2010
A Qualified Personal Residence Trust (QPRT) is an excellent tool for persons with large estates to transfer a principal residence or vacation home at the lowest possible gift tax value. The general rule is that if a person makes a gift of property in whic...
Author: Julius Giarmarco, Esq.
Taxes

Payroll Tax--Ways to keep away from

26th November 2009
Some small trade proprietor can tell you about the payroll tax nightmare. The majority of the time, any expenses that are linked to your business can be added as an assumption on your taxes. A number of financial set back remains a business owner from bei...
Author: Leo Miller
Taxes

The Annual Alternative Minimum Tax “Patch” and “Indexing” Explained

27th June 2009
The Patch Each year for the past several years Congress has "fixed" the AMT problem by enacting a temporary "patch." With the signing of the stimulus bill this past February, 24 million taxpayers who otherwise would have been in the AMT in 2009 are sp...
Author: kinal
Taxes

Alternative Minimum Tax Planning - Importance of Differing Types of Income

13th June 2009
As noted in the last article, the tax brackets that apply to capital gains and dividends are completely different from the tax brackets that apply to ordinary income . By definition, all income other than capital gains and dividends is called ordinary inc...
Author: kinal
Taxes

Steps to Success: Alternative Minimum Tax Planning

08th June 2009
In the legislative environment in which we currently find ourselves, significant changes affecting the taxation of individuals - that's you and me - are expected to be made, and to be made soon. All of this activity likely will also have a dramatic impac...
Author: kinal