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Rivkin Radler is proud to announce that the firm is a Gold Level sponsor of MENTOR New York’s virtual 2021 Mentor of the Year Awards, presented on Thursday, September 23, 2021, from 6 pm to 7 pm EST. MENTOR New York is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and the leader of the New York Mentoring Movement. The …
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Please join us as Rivkin Radler Partners Kate Heptig and Karen Sosler present on New York not-for-profit best practices: Overview of Governance Issues, including: Duties/Liabilities of Directors and Officers Independence and Conflicts of Interest Committee Requirements Key Provisions of the New York Revitalization Act Overview of Tax Law Considerations for Tax Exempt Entities Private Inurement …
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Patricia Marcin and Louis Vlahos will be featured panelists at the Wealth Enhancement Group Tax Increase Webinar. The program will discuss the clarity around the proposed tax changes and the potential impact of these changes and what it may mean for your own planning. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, September 29th at 4pm. …
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Living the Dream “How was your weekend?” Thank you for asking. Awful.[i] “Why?” you ask. (Humor me. Pretend you’re interested.) I’ll tell you. One word, with 535 syllables: Congress.[ii] When the reconciliation budget resolutions were passed by the Senate and then the House,[iii] the committees to which reconciliation instructions were given were also directed “to …
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Summertime in Washington On August 11, the Senate passed the $3.5 trillion budget resolution for the 2021-2022 fiscal year – S. Con. Res. 14, as amended – by a vote of 50 to 49, strictly along party lines, including Democratic Senators Manchin and Sinema who have repeatedly questioned the wisdom of such an expensive measure. …
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In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was first beginning to take hold, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued a report on insurance fraud that highlighted the fact that suspected no-fault automobile insurance fraud accounted for 59 percent of the 25,985 insurance fraud reports that the DFS’s Insurance Frauds Bureau received …
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