On New Year’s Day, January 1, 2021, the U.S. Senate voted 81 to 13 to override President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”), thus joining the House of Representatives, which had taken similar action four days earlier 322 to 87, so enacting the NDAA into law.» Read More
On October 22, 2019, the House of Representatives passed the Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 which requires the U.S. Department of the Treasury within one year to issue regulations to “carry out this Act.”
The Act requires each newly formed corporation and each newly formed limited liability company, unless specifically exempt, to file a report with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) disclosing the beneficial owners of those entities.» Read More
In 1599 the English Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) saw his play “The Shoemaker’s Holiday” first performed (in London). In Act 3, Scene V of the play, set in a French “neighborhood,” a famed bit of verse is included (relevant to occurrences in the play):
O, the month of May, the merry month of May
So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!» Read More