June 30th deadline for filing the Form 114 – Individuals Filing the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts has passed, but the IRS continues its fight to secure US tax revenue from foreign financial accounts. (more…)
CPAs Talk Tech Biz
Non-residents and U.S. stock options - Taxable or Not?
It is very common for U.S. parent companies to include key non-resident alien employees of their foreign subsidiaries in their stock option plans. What happens when the non-resident exercises the options or sells the options? Is the non-resident subject to withholding tax? Is there a U.S. tax filing requirement?
Is Software Tangible or Intangible Property? The Impact to California Income Tax Apportionment
I have noticed that people use the term “service,” “product,” and “intangible” interchangeably in relation to software. For example, I was recently going through a client’s website to learn more about their technology and business, and I asked my husband (an engineer) to help me. He started explaining what they did with various acronyms like WLAN, CMOS, LTE-capable and so on, but it didn’t take long for me to get lost in his tech jargon. After seeing my blank face, he boiled it down to this: they sell a software product. But what does that really mean? What is licensing of software considered? And really, why does it matter?…