The Advantage of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)

ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds) which can be traded like stock at any time during market hours, have low expense ratios, have less risk than individual stocks, do not have some of the tax disadvantages of a regular mutual fund, do not pool investor capital, and are constructed so they are far less susceptible than “standard” mutual … Read more

Paralegal Careers – Top 10 Paralegal jobs in 2010

A paralegal job is like a job which is the one next in priority to being an actual lawyer. The paralegal expert actually does everything which a lawyer does but the only thing which they aren’t certified to do is actually present cases in the courts. Now these paralegal jobs are actually considered to be … Read more

IRC

Overview – An IRC §1031 tax deferred exchange allows owners of real estate to defer the recognition of a capital gains tax they would have recognized when they sold their property so long as they reinvest in other “like-kind” real property. Tax deferred exchanges are not new – they have been available in one form … Read more

Property Exchanges Defer Taxes

Learned Hand earned the distinction as the “tenth Justice of the Supreme Court” by penning opinions that would be quoted by lawyers and laymen alike. In 1934, Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Hand wrote one of his more famous though often misquoted opinions in Helvering, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809 (2d … Read more