FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK

Beneficial Ownership Information Report are required reports that need to be filed.  I have just completed the Beneficial Ownership Information Reports for the companies that I own or am active with such as a NFP run by one of my sons.  Yes, NFP’s need to file as...

S-Corporation payroll

If you own and run an S-Corporation you are supposed to pay yourself a reasonable salary. Granted the IRS does not define reasonable salary, but there should be a salary. I work with a client whose son-in-law is retired and receives no Social Security, he had run his...

The Typical Dealings

After the Judge denied the merger between Penguin Publishing and Simon and Shuster. Penguin went through a massive round of layoffs and Simon & Schuster was sold to a private equity company instead. Private equity tends to have one game plan strategy: buy a...

Scary Quotes

Every second book in America, ballpark, is being sold via e-commerce…Amazon.com has 50 million books available. A bookstore, a good independent bookstore, has around 50,000 different books available… an algorithm decides what is being presented and made visible and...

No one reads

My son sent me a story/article the other day which shared the stats from a DOJ case regarding Penguin wanting to buy Simon and Shuster.  The deal was killed because of monopoly issues.  Penguin has 37% of the market and Shuster has 11%, a merger would dominate the...

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