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Gerald Cotten, the founder of Canada’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, QuadrigaCX, died unexpectedly due to complications with Crohn’s disease.  According to the washington Post, Mr. Cotten was the only person with the password to access the cryptocurrency accounts, which leaves his 115,000 client’s unable to access more than $190 million of holdings.  It seems the company […]

As part of our tax and estate planning practice in Connecticut and New York we do a lot of planning and estate administration.  Part of the estate documents we and many other planners put together include terminology regarding “Portability”.  In 2010, Congress introduced into the tax code with Internal Revenue Code (I.R.C.) § 2010(c)(2) the […]

The Trump administration on February 12 released its much anticipated fiscal year (FY) 2019 budget request, entitled “Efficient, Effective, Accountable An American Budget.” The administration’s proposal calls for $15 billion in IRS funding. “By investing in the modernization of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) systems, the Budget would help make the implementation of tax reform successful and support the […]

On January 11, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump said that repeal and replacement of the ACA will essentially be simultaneous when he spoke briefly about the ACA and a border tax at a news conference in New York. He stated that the administration’s submission of a plan would occur as soon as a Health and Human […]