Program Chairs:
Andrew B. Christopherson
Lichtsinn & Haensel, S.C.
Milwaukee
Richard A. Latta
Stafford Rosenbaum LLP
Madison
Presenters:
Ryan Braithwaite
Stafford Rosenbaum LLP
Madison
Michael G. Goller
Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, S.C.
Milwaukee
Courtney A. Hollander
Quarles & Brady LLP
Milwaukee
Patricia A. Hintz
Quarles & Brady LLP
Milwaukee
Wendy Miller, CPA, MBA
Wisconsin Department of Revenue
Madison
Don M. Millis
Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, S.C.
Madison
Kristina E. Somers
Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, S.C.
Milwaukee
Robert B. Teuber
von Briesen & Roper, S.C.
Waukesha
Adam J. Tutaj
Meissner Tierney Fisher & Nichols, S.C.
Milwaukee
8:00 a.m. : Registration
8:30 a.m. : Federal Tax Update
Patricia A. Hintz
9:20 a.m. : State Tax Update
Kristina E. Somers
10:10 a.m. : Break
10:25 a.m. : Hot Tax Practice Procedure and Ethics Issues
- Circular 230 and beyond
- A summary of what’s hot and what’s not in the tax ethics and procedure areas
- An update on Hot IRS Audit Issues
Michael G. Goller
11:15 a.m. : Pass-Through Entities: Navigating the Entity Level in Wisconsin Tax Law
- Comparing/contrasting the types of entity-level taxation (and related concepts) in Wisconsin law
- Entity-level assessments (2021 Wisconsin Act 262)
- Tiered entity concepts and applying them to Wisconsin law
- Duties and responsibilities of pass-through entity representative
Wendy Miller, CPA, MBA
12:05 p..m. : Lunch (on your own)
1:05 p.m. : Hot Topics in Property Tax
- Dark stores and other valuation developments
- Procedural update and pitfalls for the unwary
- Emerging issues in property tax exemptions
- Municipal and commercial property perspectives
Ryan Braithwaite, Don M. Millis
1:55 p.m. : Crypto & Virtual Assets – Can Tax Authorities Keep Up?
- Virtual currency basics and NFTs
- What are they worried about?
- How are virtual assets treated?
- Examples of challenges taxpayers are facing with virtual assets
Courtney A. Hollander, Robert B. Teuber
2:45 p.m. : Break
3:00 p.m. : Choice of Entity Considerations in light of Wisconsin’s New Business Entity Law
- Formation of entities under the new statutes (including new flexibility for LLC Articles of Organization)
- Shareholder, partnership, and operating agreements (including new recognition of oral and implied LLC operating agreements)
- Actual and apparent authority considerations
- Dissociation, dissolution, and winding up
- Mergers, conversions, and other business-structure transactions
Adam J. Tutaj
3:50 p.m. : Program Concludes
Following program start times, webcast replay schedule will vary slightly from above listed times.
- Anticipate the impact Wisconsin’s new business entity laws will have on your business clients
- Understand how the Wisconsin Department of Revenue assesses returns for pass-through entities
- Explore property tax topics from municipal and commercial property perspectives
- Assess how tax authorities analyze and treat crypto and virtual assets for taxation
- Get insight on the latest state and federal tax updates
- Taxation attorneys
- Business attorneys
- General practitioners
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