Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA June 24, 2020 79 min read

The Complete Guide to International Tax Compliance

Under the law, U.S. citizens, resident aliens and certain nonresident aliens are required to report worldwide income from all ...

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Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA January 28, 2022 4 min read

Bankruptcy and Automatic Stay

According to United States bankruptcy law, an automatic stay is defined as an automatic ...
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Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA March 3, 2021 12 min read

Establishing Residency or Domicile in California Can Be Taxing

Robert Wood, tax expert and frequent contributor to Forbes.com, wrote that “many would-be ...
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Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA February 26, 2021 12 min read

Can Internal Revenue Code Section 1202 Benefit You?

There is a generous tax benefit that only select taxpayers qualify for. Not well known, ...
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Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA January 15, 2014 4 min read

Issues Affecting Credit Rating Agencies

Competency, Trustworthiness of Ratings, and Conflicts of Interest Credit rating agencies ...
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Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA January 15, 2014 5 min read

Credit Rating Agencies - Part One

What is a Credit Rating Agency and What Task Does it Perform? Since 1931, the United ...
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Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA January 11, 2014 3 min read

How to Prevent Corporate Fraud

This is the fourth part in my series discussing corporate fraud. For more on this topic ...
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Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA January 11, 2014 4 min read

Types of Fraud

However, financial statement manipulation is simply on the edge of the fraud landscape. ...
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Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA January 11, 2014 3 min read

Government Response to Corporate Fraud

I next want to discuss the history of the governmental response and the more noteworthy ...
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Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA January 11, 2014 4 min read

On Corporate Fraud

Corporate fraud has always been one of the scourges of civilized society, although in the ...
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Sam Brotman, JD, LLM, MBA December 16, 2013 5 min read

S Corporation Reasonable Compensation

There are categories of business entities responsible for paying shareholder-employee ...
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