Non-Profit Hospital Real Property Potentially Exempt from County Property Taxes
Double-check the Tax Man by Double-checking your Parcel Usage Understandably, most hospital accounts payable departments are good at paying bills that come in the mail. However, when it comes to paying any bills that come in from the county tax collector, Arkansas non-profit hospital accounts…
"In These Uncertain Times": The Tax Consequences of PPP Loan Forgiveness
November 5, 2020
by Craig R. Cockrell
“These uncertain times” has been an often used phrase over the course of the last several months, and in no facet of 2020 life is it more applicable than the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans implemented as part of the CARES Act. In a matter of just a few months, the Small Business…
Understanding Medicare
What does Medicare cover? What are the costs of Medicare? What happens if you forget to enroll for Medicare? Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people in the United States who are over the age of 65 or certain younger people with disabilities. Medicare is funded in part by payroll…
COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights Need for College-Aged Students and Young Adults to Prioritize Estate Planning
November 5, 2020
by Ashley L. Gill
Facing mortality does not come easily to anyone, but particularly not for college-aged students or young adults. As a result, many young people, to the extent they think about estate planning at all, mistakenly assume that estate planning is something needed by only the eldest or wealthiest members…
Syndicated Conservation Easement Transactions: Internal Revenue Service Announces First Settlement
September 4, 2020
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) in an August 31st news release announced what it described as: . . . the completion of the first settlement under its initiative to resolve certain docketed cases involving syndicated conservation easement transactions (“Transactions”). The IRS had previously…