Attorneys
Chamberlain Hrdlicka 42nd Annual Houston Tax and Business Planning Seminar
Chamberlain Hrdlicka's 42nd Annual Houston Tax and Business Planning Seminar will take place on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at the Norris Conference Center at City Centre, 816 Town and Country Blvd., Suite 210. Anyone is welcome to register to attend.
Schedule
11:00 a.m. - On-Site Registration begins
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Luncheon Presentation
1:05 - 5:30 p.m. - Workshops
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Reception
Location - Norris Conference Center at City Centre, 816 Town and Country Blvd., Suite 210
Detailed Schedule:
GROUP IA | Circular 230
Tax Practitioner Duties and Obligations
A presentation reviewing the ethical and disciplinary environment for busy tax professionals, including an overview of Circular 230 and the three-level disciplinary regime in which tax practitioners practice their profession.
Presenters: George W. Connelly and David N. Calvillo
GROUP IB | International
GILTI and the Acronyms:
The International Tax Tour
This session will provide a high-level overview of the TCJA's changes to the international tax provisions. It will focus primarily on GILTI, FDII, and Section 245A, and it will touch on the changes to the foreign tax credit, Section 267A, and the Section 962 election. The discussion will also include examples.
Presenter: Sebastien N. Chain
GROUP IC | Family Office Planning
Tax Planning and Audit Issues for Family-Office Expenses
It’s an age-old question: is managing investment assets a “trade or business? The IRS’s answer has often been “No.” Recent litigation offers a way to a more favorable outcome; but, going forward, the TCJA’s temporary repeal of Sec. 212 will affect the result of those pre-2018-tax-year cases.
Presenters: Lawrence Sherlock and Habeeb “Hobbs” Gnaim
GROUP ID | Trust, Estate, and Guardianship Litigation Update
A survey of recent cases and issues currently being litigated to be considered in advising clients on how to identify potential current or future trouble spots and strategies to best protect them from creditors, predators and other dangers to their assets and family harmony.
Presenter: James McNeel
GROUP IIE | Estate Planning
When Parting Isn’t Sorrow: A Discussion of Disclaimers in Estate Planning We will review the new Texas disclaimer statutes, address some practical issues in making effective disclaimers, and examine the role of disclaimers in estate planning.
Presenters: Brett T. Berly and Julie G. Edelman
GROUP IIF | CDP Litigation
The Fight Against the IRS Continues: A Look at Collection Due Process Litigation in the Tax Court
There are several types of CDP cases that may end up in the Tax Court. This presentation will include a discussion on recent Tax Court decisions involving interesting CDP cases.
Presenter: Renesha N. Fountain
GROUP IIG | Employee Benefts (or/and Tax-exempt)
Top Employee Benefits Tax/ERISA Issues for Every CPA to Know
Top Employee Benefit issues will cover what every CPA should know and understand about current developments in the areas of welfare plans, qualified retirement plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans, and fringe benefit plans. This course will cover what is relevant to these plans from the perspective of the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, and other related state and federal laws that are creating compliance demands on employers sponsoring any type of employee benefit plan. CPAs will be provided a presentation that is intended to be a checklist to help sponsors of employee benefit plans be current and ahead of the curve as it relates to best practices with employee benefit plans and the agencies that regulate such plans, IRS, DOL, EBSA, PBGC, HHS, etc. Additionally, the latest in case law around benefit plans will be provided to help plan settlors avoid hazards that are playing out in our court systems today relating to employee benefit plans.
Presenter: Joshua A. Sutin
GROUP IIH | Judicial Highlights
Tax Controversy Update: Judicial Highlights and Taxpayer First Act of 2019
We will provide a timely review of important tax cases from the last year. We will also discuss new taxpayer rights added to the Code by the Taxpayer First Act signed into law in July 2019.
Presenters: Juan F. Vasquez, Jr. and Alissa Gipson