Tag: Bryan C. Skarlatos

Bryan C. Skarlatos participated on the panel “The Continuing Role of the Fifth Amendment Protections in Tax Enforcement” at the 36th Annual National Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud/9th Annual National Institute on Tax Controversy in Las Vegas, NV. The Fifth Amendment continues to be vital to the protections of taxpayers. 

The tax law is complicated and the right answer is not always clear. How sure do you have to be before you can tell a client it is okay to take a deduction, exclude income or characterize income as capital gain?  Can you accept what a taxpayer tells you, or

Law360 quoted Kostelanetz & Fink LLP partner Bryan Skarlatos in their recent article on the Internal Revenue Service’s major initiative to ensure that cryptocurrency users pay their fair share of tax. Mr. Skarlatos told Law360 that “…the 2014 guidance, though incomplete, combined with the assumption that cryptocurrency users would comply with

The Wall Street Journal quoted Kostelanetz & Fink LLP partner Bryan Skarlatos in their recent article on the Internal Revenue Service’s crackdown on Americans who have not reported income from cryptocurrencies. On his advice to clients who may have made money from crypto, Mr. Skarlatos said, “I tell them, ‘It’s

The IRS has selected two longtime agency executives, Eric Hylton and Tamera Ripperda, to take over as heads of the Small Business/Self-Employed Division and the Tax-Exempt and Government Entities Division, respectively. Current SB/SE Deputy Commissioner Ripperda will replace TE/GE Commissioner Sunita Lough, who will take over as deputy commissioner of

Impact on partnerships of recent judicial decisions, legislation, and administrative developments relating to economic substance, tax shelters and the codification of the economic substance doctrine, including LB&I Directives; penalty defenses, rules of professional responsibility and conduct, including Circular 230 and related ethical considerations that come into play in evaluating the