March 14, 2018
Veem, a global payments platform built on blockchain, has partnered with BlueVine, a provider of working capital financing to small and medium-sized businesses. The partnership will allow Veem’s US-based clients to finance their cross-border and ...
March 12, 2018
Time and time again, I talk to companies that are in the middle of an ICO, and the way they set up their companies, are crazy. I have an appointment next week with an ICO company, that has set up a company in the Cayman Islands, which has no tax.
March 10, 2018
What we’re seeing now are US companies setting up their ICO to occur overseas. However, the proceeds from that ICO are then funneled into the US Company, which sets off a disastrous tax scenario. This whole situation can be avoided by setting up a ...
March 5, 2018
The Thought Leader Symposium invites select professionals from around the world who are engaged in helping shape the profession. They are all widely-respected and are frequent speakers at accounting conferences.
February 20, 2018
Top Accounting Blogs & Social Media Are You Too Busy to be a Proactive, Future-Focused Advisor? Tom Hood, CPA, via LinkedIn.http://bit.ly/2EvnBoE New AICPA Chair Shares Vision of the Future. AICPA Insights blog.http://bit.ly/2nSflo8 Re-Engineer Your Audit Process. Wendy Cable from the Wolters Kluwer blog.http://bit.ly/2ET1cPW U.S. Treasury Official Says FDII Rules are BEPS Compliance. Robert Sledz from...…
February 16, 2018
Cryptocurrency is a form of currency that only exists digitally and relies on encryption for the security of transactions. There are thousands of forms of cryptocurrency, with some of the most well known with names like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple.
February 14, 2018
A Section 1031 Exchange is a like-kind exchange. Before the new tax law, if you had anything classified as property, you could exchange that property for property that was like-kind, and avoid the capital gains tax on the transactions.
February 14, 2018
Today’s security protocols perform cryptography in all kinds of electronic networks, from sound to SMS texting to Internet web pages: but none of them use Gilbert’s OTP! So why doesn’t cryptography use this perfect Unbreakable cipher?
February 13, 2018
Over the last two to three years we have watched pundits and consultants promote ideas around emerging technologies. Some of the claims are ludicrous, loony, and ill-informed. Others are trying to position, parlay and learn. You’ve seen this column ...
February 9, 2018
Has your firm started the transformation to advisory services? If not, in the not so distant future you will be too behind to catch up. That sounds harsh, but it’s better to face the reality that soon the gap will be so wide that your options for ...
February 8, 2018
Two conferences have been added to the AICPA ENGAGE lineup this year – the EDGE Career Development Conference, designed for standout young CPAs, and the CPA Firm Management Association’s National Practice Management Conference – bringing the total ...
February 5, 2018
Income from a CFC is not taxed until it is repatriated to the US. In crypto, this would happen when the money is sent to the US based company. Let’s say the US company sells widgets to the foreign corporation at cost. The foreign corporation is set up ...