by Dan Smith | Oct 25, 2012 | Entrepreneurs' Business Blog
Tax law consists of a lot of moving parts. You have case law coming out of a whole range of federal courts all the time on tax questions that make up a part of what we call “tax law.” For example, the U.S. Supreme Court in the big Obamacare case earlier...
by Dan Smith | Feb 28, 2012 | Entrepreneurs' Business Blog
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI has 120 persons targeted for violations of insider trading. And, in a blast from the past, the actor, Michael Douglas, who portrayed Gordon Gekko in the 1980’s movie, Wall Street, is the new spokesman for...
by Dan Smith | Feb 28, 2012 | Entrepreneurs' Business Blog
Tomorrow morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for an hour in a fascinating tax case that highlights the intersection of a local government’s tax policy, the financing of public utilities, and the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution....
by Dan Smith | Feb 27, 2012 | Entrepreneurs' Business Blog
A pair of Tennessee bills currently in committee in the state legislature would make a big change in how businesses in Tennessee deal with litigation if they eventually make their way out of committee and into law. Under the tandem bills of Senate Bill 2586 and House...
by Dan Smith | Feb 27, 2012 | Entrepreneurs' Business Blog
When it comes to setting up an estate plan, one should consider the important advantages that life insurance provides. However, it is also important to know about the limitations on life insurance, and some possible planning ideas to utilize life insurance in an...
by Dan Smith | Feb 25, 2012 | Entrepreneurs' Business Blog
Welcome to DPS Legal Counsel’s Tennessee Business Law Blog. Here, you will find recent developments and important points of law of interest to Tennessee business. Check back often. It is my hope that you will find much here to not only be interesting and...