It’s coming up next week, Tuesday January 15, 2013: a live program discussing tax obligations in New York State at New York County Lawyers’ Association. below is a copy of the flyer:
Flyer for Jan. 15 2013 program at NYCLA
Stick-to-False-Teeth Dept:
A Florida dentist faces up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to making a false statement on a federal income tax return.
In a moment of apparent clarity and largesse, actor Charlie Sheen, a recent star of the television hit comedy, Two and a Half Men, and now starring in Anger Management, gave controversial actress Lindsay Lohan $100,000 to help pay down her blockbuster-sized tax debt.
Sheen and Lohan worked together recently, filming Scary Movie 5. According to TMZ, which first reported this story, Lohan used Sheen’s money for its intended purpose: paying Uncle Sam’s meaner cousin, the IRS.
Lohan, whose off-screen personal dramas have sometimes out shown her considerable talent as an actress, allegedly owed the IRS $233,904 in back taxes for 2009 and 2010, TMZ reported.
With Sheen’s gift, Lohan has substantially reduced the tax debt TMZ says she has (what a big bite she got to take out of that balance due!), though interest and penalty continue to accrue on that part which is still unpaid and past due.
New Continuing Legal Education Program at New York County Lawyers Association
NYS Tax Obligations for Businesses Conducting Commerce on the Internet
Tuesday, November 13, 2012, New Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:00 PM –9:00 PM
Member Price: $125
Non-Member Attorney Price: $175
Law Office Staff: $15
(as of December 2012) AND, ATTENTION ACCOUNTANTS: CPE CREDIT IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Intended Audience: Attorneys with clients doing business or considering doing business on the internet; also business owners, entrepreneurs, web site owners, designers, developers, who might have tax issues arising from doing business on the internet.
Non-lawyers (no CLE) may attend the program for $15. Register above as “Law Office Staff.”
Location: 2nd Floor Auditorium
Course ID: C121132011
Number of Sessions: 1
Credits: 3 MCLE Credits: Breakdown tbd
3 MCLE Credits
Course Description:
Gain an overview of the New York State sales tax obligations for New York based businesses engaged in commerce on the Internet. A panel of experts will explore many of the interesting issues and “wrinkles” that arise during the course of the transactions.
Faculty:
Program Co-sponsors: NYCLA’s Cyberspace Committee and NYCLA’s Taxation Committee
Program Chairs: Allan R. Pearlman, Co-Chair, NYCLA’s Cyberspace Committee and Megan L. Brackney, Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP, Chair, NYCLA’s Taxation Committee
Faculty: James Connolly, Department of Taxation and Finance’s Office of Counsel; Timothy P. Noonan, Hodgson Russ LLP; Lance Rothenberg, Hodgson Russ.
Go to https://www.nycla.org/index.cfm?section=CLE&page=CLE_Detail&itemID=2926&dateID=20121113
or http://www.nycla.org to register.
It happens more often than attorneys or their clients want: they have a law suit pending and as they are gathering information, facts, records, witnesses and testimony getting ready for trial, one of the witnesses is someplace else.
For example, the witness is in New York, even though the case is in Pennsylvania or Florida, California or Toronto, or anywhere else outside New York.
Same Dress, Two Designers? Click on this link to see the flyer announcing the program we’ve put together. A three-credit Continuing Legal Education (CLE) class about protecting intellectual property in the fashion industry. (Non-lawyers are also welcome, for a nominal charge)
New York County Lawyers Association reports that more than 50 people have already signed up to attend, which is huge.
Coming up on September 8, 2011, at 6:00 PM, coinciding with the September 2011 New York City Fashion Week, the Cyberspace Law Committee of New York County Lawyers Association is putting on a Continuing Legal Education course on Intellectual Property protections in the fashion industry.
This course is for both lawyers and non-lawyers (no CLE credit for non-lawyers).
Full Disclosure: I am announcing this event because, in late 2010, I was appointed co-chair of New York County Lawyers’ Associations Cyberspace Law Committee and this is one of our projects.
Course Description:
Celebrate New York Fashion Week by joining us at a special program focusing on protecting intellectual property rights in the fashion industry. While imitation can be considered the highest form of flattery, it can also be costly, harmful to businesses – and even illegal.
Learn the ins and outs of legal protection in the fashion industry, including how Trademark, Copyright and Design-Patent laws can be, and are used, in the United States and in Europe against copying and counterfeiting in the fashion industry.
Special focus will also be given to new legislation, the “Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act” (IDPPA), now pending in Congress.
Faculty:
Program Co-sponsor: NYCLE Cyberspace Committee, Allan Pearlman and Natalie Sulimani, Co-Chairs
Program Chair:Viviana Mura, Herzfeld & Rubin P.C.
Faculty: Prof. Guillermo C. Jimenez, Fashion Institute of Technology and co-author, “Fashion Law, A Guide for Designers, Fashion Executives, and Attorneys”; Viviana Mura, Herzfeld & Rubin P.C.; Joseph Francis Murphy, Law Office of Joseph Francis Murphy, Esq.
For more information go to www.nycla.org or to the specific page for the Same Dress, Two Designers? by clicking here.
There’s still time to keep more of your money yours, and have Uncle Sam and the IRS say “what’s yours is mine” to less of your hard-earned income.
As you probably know by now, Tax Day, which is usually April 15th every year, this year is three days later, on Monday April 18th. So the annual day of tax reckoning for most of us is this coming Monday.
This fast approaching deadline made me think of something that all too many taxpayers do. And by doing it, they unnecessarily harm themselves and cause themselves to have a bigger tax bill than they’d otherwise have.
And I’m going to share with you an easy, inexpensive, and legal way to keep a whole lot of money in your own pocket and out of Uncle Sam’s pocket.
It’s been sounding like a love-fest, Howard Stern and satellite radio. First, Sirius crushed its competitor, XM — which it could not have done without the weight of Howard and his loyal listeners. Then the two satellite radio companies merged to become Sirius XM. This has sounded like a love-fest: Howard can do his morning radio show uncensored by regular radio stations, unthreatened by the FCC, and without endless commercials jamming up his show.
Plus, since his first day on satellite radio, in January 2006, Howard has been saying how great it is to be appreciated by his new employer. Again and again, his listeners have heard him say that he’s happy at Sirius, and that the whole set-up on satellite has allowed him and his crew to do the best radio they’ve ever done.
In December 2010, after months of a cliff-hanger for listeners, wondering whether Howard would renew his contract, he re-signed to continue his show for another five years.
But the love-fest — let’s say the honeymoon at least — seems to be over. Today, Howard Stern, through his production company, One Twelve, Inc. (named for his birthday, January 12th), and his agent, Don Buchwald, sued Sirius XM in New York State Supreme Court for breach of contract.
“The company accountant is shy and retiring. He’s shy a quarter of a million dollars. That’s why he’s retiring.”
• Milton Berle
and
Question: What does an accountant use for birth control?
Answer: His personality.
While much of my attention, when it comes to jokes about professions, is focused on lawyer jokes (e.g., What do you call a 52 seat bus with 50 lawyers on it which drives off a cliff? ….), I always ask other professionals what jokes there are about them (e.g., Two optometrists walk into a bar….)
So, it feels like a gift to be told a few accountant jokes.
And with many of us having an accountant as our new best friend in February or March, it could not have come at a better time. I think Bob was not unaware of this.