SEC Proposes to Expand Qualification for Smaller Reporting Companies

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed to amend the definition of a smaller reporting company to a registrant with either a public float (i.e. the market value of the registrant’s common equity held by non-affiliates) of less than $250 million, or a public float of zero (meaning that all of the registrant’s common equity […]

IRS Clarifies that Partners are not Employees, even in Holding Company Structure

Co-authored by John L. Sikora The Internal Revenue Service recently adopted temporary regulations to clarify that a disregarded entity that is owned by a partnership is not treated as a corporation for purposes of employing the individual partners in the partnership, even if the disregarded entity is otherwise treated as a corporation for employment tax […]