“Explore Recent Changes to the Interest & Dividends Tax

                    and How They Effect Business Owners”

         Robin Paveglio                            Amy Kanyuk                          Kathryn Michaelis

 
Breakfast Table Panel Workshop Description:   

Robin Paveglio, Taxpayer Advocate, will discuss the challenge of advocating for the taxpayer during these difficult economic times. Robin is the Concord, NH Department of Revenue Administration tax expert who will provide a lively educational and informative tax workshop designed to answer all of your questions. Robin’s presentation will cover the following topics in addition to providing an open forum question and answer session at the end of the presentation:

• Changes to the Interest & Dividends Tax
• Meals & Rentals Renewals, Licensing Requirements & Bonding Issues
• How Property Tax Appeals Differ from All Other Tax Appeals
• Tax Statements of Good Standing Requests on the Increase
• How the Statute of Limitations on Assessments Can Affect Filers
• Common Taxpayer Complaints
• Frequent Tax Return Filing Errors
• The Move to Paperless Filing
• New Business Tax Forms to be Introduced Next Year
• 2010 Legislative Bill Proposals Related to State Taxes   

        Following Robin’s presentation, Amy Kanyuk and Kathryn Michaelis, Tax Attorneys from the office of McDonald & Kanyuk, PLLC, will then address “Recent Changes to the Interest and Dividends Tax and How They Effect Business Owners”.  The following topics will be covered with time at the end of the presentation to answer any additional questions that you may have pertaining to your business:

·         2009 Changes to the Interest and Dividends Tax Laws

·         2010 Interest and Dividends Tax Regulations and Why There’s Controversy About the Changes

·         The Impact of the Changes on Reasonable Compensation

·         Practical Challenges in Complying with the New Rules.

Robin Paveglio is a 22 year veteran of New Hampshire State Service.  She holds a science degree with a major and certificate in paralegal studies.  Since 1999, she has served as New Hampshire’s first official Taxpayer Advocate.

In June of 2009, Robin was the recipient of the IRS Small Business/Self-Employed Division Excellence in Partnering Recognition for her team efforts and role in assisting the small business taxpayer.  Robin plans to continue her service to the citizens of New Hampshire working to uphold fair, equitable and consistent treatment of all individuals and businesses while simultaneously maintaining the integrity and professional reputation of the Department of Revenue.

Amy Kanyuk a partner at the law firm of McDonald & Kanyuk, PLLC located in Concord, NH concentrates her practice on estate, gift and generation-skipping planning for individuals and families of high net worth.  She has worked extensively in the areas of planned giving, family business succession planning and asset protection.  She holds the highest rating of A-V from Martindale Hubbell and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.  Amy has been selected numerous times by her peers for inclusion in Woodward and White’s Best Lawyers in America, in the fields of tax law and trusts and estates.

She frequently lectures before professional and civic groups on tax and estate planning topics.  Amy also has served as an adjunct professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire, teaching Wills, Trusts and Estates.  She is often retained as an expert witness to provide opinions and testimony in trust and estate litigation.  

Kathryn Michaelis is Of Counsel to the firm of Rath, Young and Pignatelli, P.C. in Concord, New Hampshire.  She is a member of the Tax Practice Group and the Litigation Practice Group, and concentrates her practice on assisting clients with state tax matters.

Kathryn represents firm clients on all state tax matters, including planning business structures and transactions in a tax-efficient manner and resolving state tax controversies.  She assists multi-state businesses understand and comply with the growing number of state laws that require unitary combined reporting, such as New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts.
  

Registration is required and a full hot breakfast will be served.

For additional information please call the WBC at 430-2892 ext.1

Please Note: Course  cancellations outside of 48 hours  will be given a full refund. Cancellations with 24-48 hours  notice will receive a 50% refund. Cancellations made within 24 hours  will not be refunded.