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Taxation

Twomey Latham’s tax practice is diverse and sophisticated. We help businesses, charities, and individuals with federal and state tax matters in a variety of ways.

The firm advises Long Island business entities including corporations, S corporations, limited-liability companies (“LLCs”), single-member LLCs, and partnerships on all tax matters relating to structure, operation, reorganization, agreements, elections, distributions, retirement plans, and dissolution. We also represent businesses in connection with mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, and tax-free reorganizations.

The firm advises individual clients in connection with planning for the disposition of their business and other assets for estate and gift planning purposes, including grantor trusts, GRATs, QPRTs, charitable remainder trusts, sales to defective trusts, and family limited partnerships/LLCs. We also represent clients in estate and gift tax audits.

Taxation Attorneys

Our taxation attorneys focus on providing clients in-depth knowledge of our diverse range of practice areas.

News & Insights About Taxation

2015 Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Retirement Plans

The Internal Revenue Service announced the cost of living adjustments affecting dollar limitations for pension and retirement plans for tax year 2015.

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New Law: NYS Homeowners Must Re-register to Qualify for Basic STAR Exemption

The NYS School Tax Relief (STAR) Program provides an exemption from school taxes for owner-occupied, primary residences where the combined income of the owners and spouses who reside on the property does not exceed $500,000. This is known as the Basic STAR exemption.

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What the Fiscal Cliff Compromise Means for All of Us

As we all know by now, the feared “fiscal cliff” was averted at the eleventh hour. After tense and exhaustive negotiations that kept the country on edge, the Senate approved a bill to avert the fiscal cliff two hours after the midnight deadline on January 1, 2013, and the House of Representatives voted to approve […]

Does the Affordable Care Act a/k/a Obamacare Impose a 3.8 Percent Sales Tax on Your Home?

Barring repeal after the upcoming election, a 3.8% Medicare contribution tax will come into effect in 2013 to help pay for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act a/k/a Obamacare (the “Act”). There is a lot of false or misleading information on the Internet about this tax and its impact upon the sale of one’s […]