Knowledge Center

May 7, 2013

Urgent Update to "The Most Important Sales Tax Change"

Yesterday, the United States Senate passed a bill that will require remote retailers (including those in foreign countries) to collect sales and use taxes across the United States.
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April 25, 2013

City Seeks to Increase Revenue by Taxing Deed-in-Lieu Transactions

In an effort to increase transfer tax revenue, the City of Chicago seeks to amend its Municipal Code in a manner that would result in tax liability for some real estate investors on transfers of real property that traditionally have been treated as exempt transfers.
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April 12, 2013

Advising Foreign Businesses on U.S. State and Local Taxation

Taxes imposed by states and localities in the United States can be a source of confusion for foreign business entities making sales in or into the United States, and for foreign tax professionals advising those businesses.
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Presentations

December 13, 2011

What's Happening Today

Presentation for NYU Institute on State and Local Taxation
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September 22, 2011

The Art of Non-Cash Charitable Giving

Presentation given by Richard Horwood to the Chicago Estate Planning Council at the Standard Club in Chicago, IL on September 22, 2011
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September 20, 2011

All That's New in Illinois: 12th Annual Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois State and Local Tax Conference

Given by HMB's Fred Marcus on September 20, 2011
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News & Events

May 9, 2013

David Fruchtman Quoted on State Taxation of Non-U.S. Entities

David Fruchtman, Of Counsel with Horwood Marcus & Berk, was quoted in Bloomberg BNA’s analysis of its 2013 50-state tax survey “2013 Survey of State Tax Departments: States Specify Nexus Policies on Web Servers and Non-U.S. Entities; Address Many Other Gray Areas”, published on April 26, 2013.
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February 26, 2013

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Course Presentation

Lauren Wolven presents "Demystifying the Estate Planning Process" for IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law School estate planning course
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February 25, 2013

Council on State Taxation 2013 Sales Tax Conference

Horwood Marcus & Berk State and Local Tax attorney Marilyn Wethekam co-presents "Playing Well with Others in the SALT Sandbox: Are States Blurring the Lines Between Income Tax and Sales Tax Concepts?" at the COST 2013 Sales Tax Conference
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