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How Guarantors Can Escape Tax On Soured Debt

By Bill Purdy

settlement tax

Tax lawyer Bill Purdy and I shared a client with a small interest in a failed corporation with a huge SBA loan.  Could our client escape the tax consequences should we be able to settle his  liability on a million dollars in unpaid loan.  Was the client looking at a million dollars of cancellation of […]

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You’ve arrived at the Bankruptcy Soapbox, a resource of bankruptcy information and consumer law.

Soapbox is a companion site to Bankruptcy in Brief, where I try to be largely explanatory and even handed (Note I said “try”).

Here, I allow myself to tell stories and express strong opinions. We dig deeper into how to consider bankruptcy and navigate a bankruptcy case.

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What You Keep In Chapter 13

Just because debtors can keep their upscale trappings and their toys bought on credit doesn't mean they should. Still, I share my colleagues excitement over the 9th Circuit's recent decision in Welsh.   The appeals court held that a debtor wasn't guilty of bad faith in proposing a Chapter 13 plan that kept and … Read more

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