Effective Jan. 1, 2024, the following changes to the jurisdictional amounts for California state courts apply:
Small claims: Maximum claim increased from $10,000 to $12,500;
Limited civil and unlawful detainer cases: Maximum claim increased from $25,000 to $35,000; and
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Federal, state, and local governments are announcing economic aid and loan programs to assist small businesses impacted by COVID-19 (coronavirus). These include:
U.S. Federal government (IRS): https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus?utm_source=Summit+CPA%2C+Inc.&utm_campaign=f247223cfa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_22_02_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c3b50b8184-f247223cfa-356485491
IRS tax filing and payment deadlines extended to July 15, 2020: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/payment-deadline-extended-to-july-15-2020
Federal
Updating my 10-year old post, How to Avoid an IRS Tax Audit: Incorporate Your Small Business, the IRS’ own most recently available data (for tax year 2017), show that, for a taxpayer with $100,000 or more in gross revenue,
As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision, starting 2019, California will require remote sellers with no presence in the state to register and collect and pay over to the state sales taxes (technically, “use tax”) on sales
The recently created California Office of Tax Appeals (OTA) has issued a ruling in the Satview case against the Franchise Tax Board (FTB)’s position that a 25% member of a California limited liability company was “doing business” in California and
The California Supreme Court has made an important change to employment classification law for California employers, that will make it more difficult for companies to appropriately classify workers as independent contractors. The new “ABC” standard is simpler but more strict
The Supreme Court has resolved a conflict amongst the U.S. Federal Circuit Courts, and once again the Ninth Circuit has been overruled. This time it was for SCOTUS to confirm that class action waivers in employee arbitration agreements are enforceable
Jonas M. Grant was recently quoted as a California corporate law subject matter expert in an article in an online journal covering Los Angeles real estate news:[The] corporation … continues to conduct business even though the state of California suspended
LegalZoom offers trademark filing services, so naturally, when it comes to its own trademarks used to promote this and other of its online, non-attorney document preparation services, it trusts these to its in-house team, the same ones used by its
Why Do TV Networks Have ‘No Unsoliciated Materials’ Policies?
One reason:LAWSUITS. Networks do not want to get sued because you thought they stole your idea. When creators pitch an undeveloped idea anybody could have come up with … they think
