Reasonable Compensation Analysis Archives - Advent Valuation Advisors Business Valuation | Forensic Accounting | Litigation Support Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:14:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://adventvalue.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cropped-advent-icon-32x32.png Reasonable Compensation Analysis Archives - Advent Valuation Advisors 32 32 Compensation or Dividend: Know the Difference https://adventvalue.com/compensation-or-dividend-know-the-difference/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:56:54 +0000 https://adventvalue.com/?p=2601 The U.S. Tax Court recently ruled that payments made to a corporate taxpayer’s three shareholders were dividends — not compensation for personal services rendered. The court’s reasoning also may be relevant in shareholder disputes and divorce cases when the parties disagree about whether compensation should be deducted from earnings when valuing a business interest. (Aspro, […]

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]]> Landmark Compensation Case Turns 25 https://adventvalue.com/landmark-compensation-case-turns-25/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:22:43 +0000 https://adventvalue.com/?p=2178 When is no compensation considered reasonable compensation? When an officer of a business is an officer in name only. That is one of the key takeaways of Davis v. United States, one of the landmark cases in the canon of compensation law. This is the 25 anniversary of Davis v. United States, and Paul Hamann […]

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