Tuesday, September 5, 2017
The Tax Consequences Of Hurricane Harvey (And Other Natural Disasters)
The Service has put up a very useful and comprehensive webpage titled "Help for Victims of Hurricane Harvey." The page contains excellent information about all the different actions the Service takes in response to a natural disaster and has links to all kinds of useful sites.
The Texas State Comptroller has a similarly useful webpage that describes the state and local tax relief (such as exemption from hotel taxes).
Finally, Frank Agostino and Phillip Colasanto have also posted a good article here that not only explains the substantive and procedural tax consequences of a disaster like Harvey, but gives good general advice on what taxpayers and their advisors should do as a practical matter to prepare for the tax aftermath.
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/09/tax-consequences-of-hurricaine-harvey-and-other-disasters.html
Professor Danshera Cords has published two pieces on charitable giving and disaster relief (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2305665 and https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2321444).
Posted by: Eric Chiappinelli | Sep 5, 2017 2:36:12 PM