by Nikki Semanchik | Jan 11, 2019 | Business Law
An 83(b) election (here’s the code) can effectively accelerate your income tax and save you money by allowing equity you receive to be taxed before it is vested in a company, rather than after (we’ll talk more about what this means in practical terms in a...
by Nikki Semanchik | Jan 3, 2019 | Business Law, General Counsel, Nonprofit Law
As the year wound down and we brought 2018 to a close, your nonprofit may receive requests for W-9 forms from companies you’ve done business with over the course of the year. You may think of a W-9 as a form that only applies to independent contractors (and, for the...
by Nikki Semanchik | Jan 2, 2019 | Business Law, General Counsel
If you work for someone else, your employer handles your tax withholdings for you. That’s not the case when you work for yourself, though: you are still responsible for paying those taxes, but the responsibility for withholding falls to you. In the state of...