Entries by Raffensperger Martin Finkenbiner RMF

IRS ruled favorably on a community cultural center’s tax-exempt issues

The IRS has privately ruled on a number of issues with regard to a tax-exempt organization’s activities in building and operating a cultural center, including whether its operation of a coffee shop would be an unrelated trade or business, whether certain transfers would be self-dealing transactions and whether the cost of obtaining the ruling would […]

No time for tricks on April Fool’s Day

IRA owners who turned age 70½ in 2016, but opted to wait until 2017 to begin taking their required minimum distributions (RMDs) for 2016, must receive their 2016 RMDs by April 1. A participant in a qualified retirement plan generally must begin taking distributions from it by April 1 of the calendar year following the […]

Dig out first, then file for an extension

The IRS has granted businesses affected by Winter Storm Stella, the storm that hit parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic this week, additional time to request a 6-month extension to file their 2016 federal tax returns. The extension for the extension affects calendar year partnerships and S corporations that must file their 2016 returns by […]