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		<title>Why Is Municipal Services Bureau MSB Contacting Me about Texas Franchise Taxes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is MSB Contacting Me about Texas Franchise Taxes? Municipal Services Bureau (&#8220;MSB&#8221;) is contacting you regarding franchise taxes because the Comptroller of Public Accounts believes a corporation, limited liability company, or other filing entity that you operate is delinquent in the payment of its franchise taxes. This belief could be due to an actual franchise tax delinquency by your business or it could simply be a failure to complete a &#8220;No Tax Due&#8221; or other tax filing with the Comptroller along with the annual Public Information Report.  Most of the time, it is the latter. The good news is that these are usually fairly straightforward situations to fix.  The first bit of bad news is that if MSB is contacting you, the odds are fairly good that your Corporation or LLC has been forfeited its filing status with the Secretary of State.  That means that your entity may no longer be providing the liability shield that likely prompted you to form the corporation, LLC, etc., in the first place.  To learn more about forfeiture of corporate privileges, CLICK HERE.  The bit of bad news is that you now have a debt collector contacting you &#8211; MSB.  As such, MSB may report this account to credit bureaus, causing substantial damage to your credit rating.  In other words, this situation needs immediate attention. Who is MSB? First, MSB is not a governmental entity or any kind of governmental authority.  Rather, &#8220;MSB&#8221; or &#8220;Municipal Services Bureau&#8221; is simply the assumed name of a Texas limited liability company by the name of Gila, LLC (1).  Gila, LLC, also does business under the name &#8220;Gila Group&#8221; (2).  MSB&#8217;s letterhead is misleading on this front because, while the entity converted from a corporation to a limited liability company on July 29, 2010 (3), letterhead received from MSB as of the date of this blog states that MSB is &#8220;A Private Corporation.&#8221;   From a corporate standpoint, MSB&#8217;s representation that it is still a &#8220;private corporation&#8221; post-conversion is factually inaccurate (4).  MSB is operated by Bruce Cummings as the Chief Executive Officer and Michael Epstein is the MSB&#8217;s corporate Secretary according to MSB&#8217;s most recent filings with the Texas Secretary of State. What Does MSB Want? MSB is a debt collector.  It is attempting to collect franchise taxes allegedly due to the Comptroller of Public Accounts. The Comptroller of Public Accounts engaged MSB to perform this debt collection service for a fee. How Can I Resolve my Franchise Tax Issues? The specific resolution for each person contacted regarding delinquent franchise taxes depends on that person&#8217;s  situation.  If you operate several filing entities, it will be necessary to determine which entities are delinquent and require filings and which actually owe delinquent franchise taxes.  As stated earlier, often this is a rather easy-to-fix situation on the Comptroller&#8217;s front.  The more difficult issues arise in dealing with reinstatement of a forfeited entity, providing proper documentation to the Secretary of State, and dealing with MSB to ensure that no negative information is reported to any of the big three credit bureaus.  This is certainly not something that should be put on the back burner. Can Walters Dunn Help Me? The attorneys at Walters Dunn have extensive experience assisting clients with resolving forfeitures and delinquent franchise tax issues as well as reinstating forfeited entities with the Secretary of State.  To reach Walters Dunn for an appointment today, call 512-236-1114 or visit our &#8220;Contact Us&#8221; page HERE . Footnotes: (1) Assumed Name Certificate of Gila LLC &#8211; Municipal Services Bureau  (Filed October 28, 2010). (2) Assumed Name Certificate of Gila, LLC &#8211; Gila Group (Filed October 28, 2010). (3) Certificate of Conversion from Gila Corporation to Gila, LLC (Filed July 29, 2010). (4) Certificate of Conversion from Gila Corporation to Gila, LLC (Filed July 29, 2010). &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Why is A Debt Collector Calling Me at Home?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debt collectors call you at your home because they either bought your debt or were assigned a right to collect it. The collector now wants you to pay it. They want it paid as soon as possible and they want it paid in full. Many debt collectors are paid based on a contingency fee &#8211; that is, they receive a percentage of the amount they recover. Despite the fact that they bought your debt for pennies on the dollar (or, often times, tenths of a penny), the fact is the debt may still exist. Debt collectors must verify the debt and they will also attempt to verify your information. More and more these days, our firm encounters debt collector calls that are scams by parties outside of the U.S. attempting to get you to pay debts that do not exist.  Other times calls are from collectors who just don’t know any better and are attempting to collect a &#8220;barred debt.&#8221; If a debt collector leaves a phone message identifying you by name and threatening to throw you in jail, that call is either part of a scam or a call from someone with abysmally poor training in debt collection. Most people can’t pay the debt in full when a debt collector calls them. Not to be dissuaded by a little thing like inability to pay, debt collectors may encourage the debtor to borrow money from other sources to pay an existing debt.  This may go so far as asking you to take out another loan or to make a payment on another credit card! This is clearly not someone you want to take financial advice from. Another loan will not get you out of financial trouble. Work out a plan that fits with your financial situation. If you are unable to reach an agreement and see no way out of the debt within your budget, the experienced attorneys at Walters Dunn can advise you on the pros and cons of other options such as bankruptcy. If you owe the money, but you don’t have it all up front, one solution is to negotiate with the debt collector. Debt collectors have a strong motivation to close the account &#8211; it&#8217;s typically the only way they get paid. Time is of the essence for these people. They want the full amount, but they love to bargain. Never be afraid to negotiate. That is what debt collectors do. You will never know what you can get if you don’t ask for it. Whether or not you should personally negotiate with a debt collector depends on the particular collector and on your negotiating skills. The front lines of the collection business are likely to be the highest in turnover, but some people may make a career of it. The team leaders, team supervisors, and other managerial and supervisory staff have been there longer. You never know if you will talk to the same person twice. Some will be skilled negotiators and some will be people who just started work. Our attorneys deal with debt collectors frequently and we are familiar with the games they play. A debt settlement attorney can be a powerful ally in negotiating a favorable result that both resolves the debt and frees you from the harassing phone calls of credit collection companies. .]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Been Sued by a Credit Card Debt Collector!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[YOU HAVE BEEN SUED That&#8217;s what the notice says. The credit card that was charged off months ago, or even years ago, has been purchased by a debt collector. They have now filed suit on the account. You recall receiving a notice in the mail threatening this lawsuit, but since you had no ability to pay the balance, you ignored it.  In these difficult times, it is an all-too-common story.  Many people ignore the demand letters that precede these lawsuits as idle threats. But what do you do once you have been sued? “What should I do?” Call an attorney immediately. Correct and timely preservation of your rights is essential. Once you have been sued, your time to preserve your legal rights starts running. Some debt collectors will include a request for disclosure with their original petition. Others will even add interrogatories, requests for admission, and requests for production with the original petition. The clock starts running as soon as the citation is served on you, the defendant. “But, I never lived in the county where I’m being sued.” Suits filed on consumer debts must be filed in the county in which the contract was signed or the contract in which the debtor resides. Debt collectors are typically overwhelmed and work on volume. They will sometimes file suit in the wrong county. Walters Dunn recently recovered over $4,400.00 in damages from a debt collector who filed and prosecuted a credit card lawsuit in the wrong county. “I’m on the Texas Legal Protection Plan, Does that help?” Absolutely.  Every Texan should be on Texas Legal Protection Plan. Why? Because the debt collectors win by default judgment and do so at a rate of 85%-95% of the time according to a recent publication. The likely cause of their excellent victory rate is that it costs so much to defend a debt collection case. Debt collectors have staff attorneys whose sole job is to get these judgments. A debtor in this situation must hire an attorney. That is where Texas Legal Protection Plan can save you thousands of dollars.  Visit www.tlpp.org for more details. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Walters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Walters is the managing member at Walters Dunn. His primary practice focus is corporate and business law nationally and internationally.  Mr. Walters represents business owners, including physicians, dentists, attorneys, architects, CPAs, restaurateurs, bar and tavern owners, pharmacists, and information technology companies, in forming, organizing, and restructuring their businesses.  He also assists business owners with selling and acquiring businesses and raising funds for expansion of existing businesses.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Why Every Texan should join the Texas Legal Protection Plan (TLPP) &#8211; a Nonprofit Legal Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal issues these days are not an &#8220;if,&#8221; they are a &#8220;when.&#8221;  The legal system touches every one of our lives at some point &#8211; it could be through a divorce, a bankruptcy, a death in the family, a lawsuit, or simply wanting to start up a corporation or LLC.  When these legal issues arise, many Texans are forced to resort to non-attorney online form vendors because they cannot afford to pay an attorney for his or her services.   Some people even choose to get their legal advice from Google and then take their best run at filing or defending a legal proceeding on their own.  More often than not, these pro-se tactics and online forms result in unintended negative consequences that can include unenforceable contracts, judgments against a person, and even dismissal from bankruptcy, divorce, or probate proceedings. Allow me to put this into perspective &#8211; most intelligent people would not take a stab at wrist surgery (pardon the pun) after reading an article about how to perform a procedure online. Similarly, most intelligent people would not take advice from a non-physician on how to treat a severe illness.  The same should be true for practice and procedures in law.  Unfortunately, the availability of &#8220;do-it-yourself&#8221; forms and their use by the public for just about any legal situation continues to increase.  Correspondingly, more and more attorneys find themselves cleaning up the messes created by these DIY tactics.  Rather than saving attorneys&#8217; fees, these clients often end up spending far more than they would have had they simply consulted with an attorney at the outset. Contrary to the popular belief that online forms and pro-se filers take work from attorneys, often times these activities guarantee more legal work for attorneys in the form of fixing mistakes. The part that is the most troubling about the scenarios above is that legal services are easily within reach for every single Texan.  Texas is home to a nonprofit legal plan that provides access to attorneys in almost every imaginable practice area and in almost every city in Texas &#8211; the Texas Legal Protection Plan (&#8220;TLPP&#8221;).  Whether the situation involves divorce, defense of a lawsuit, filing a bankruptcy, adopting a child, forming a business, or even defense of a DWI or felony, TLPP covers the services at little to no cost to the member.  Members can even have their wills and estate planning documents drafted by an experienced attorney of their choice at no cost.  To top it off, TLPP has a legal hotline through which members can speak directly with licensed Texas attorneys.  Membership in the nonprofit starts at $16.00 per month on the low end for an individual and tops off at $26.00 a month for a family plan.  Individual plans are available &#8211; one need not be a member of a group to join.  Considering that many attorneys charge between $250 and $350 per hour for their time, the benefits of membership are immediately apparent.  A link to TLPP&#8217;s website may be found below: www.tlpp.org Rather than taking a stab at handling a legal matter or googling a form, why not get an experienced professional in your corner for less than the price of a tank of gas each month?  At Walters Dunn, our attorneys are proud to provide legal services to Texas Legal Protection Plan members.  We have assisted Texas Legal Protection Plan members with a wide variety of issues, including but not limited the matters listed below.  With each new project, we maintain our commitment to providing the highest quality legal services to all of our clients.  If you are a TLPP member, we would love to assist you with your legal needs. 1. Bankruptcy (Chapter 7 and Chapter 13), 2. Business Entity Formations (LLC, Corporation, LP, LLP, PA, PC, PLLC), 3. Estate Planning (writing wills, durable powers of attorney, directives to physicians/living wills, trusts), 4. Consumer Protection and DTPA Lawsuits, 5. Defense of Lawsuits, and 6. Felony and Misdemeanor Defense. To find out more information on TLPP membership, CLICK HERE. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>TABC Cancels Yassine Permits for Spill, Fuel &#8211; Other Properties Await Orders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has begun terminating Hussein Ali &#8220;Mike&#8221; Yassine&#8217;s liquor licenses.  As of January 8, 2013, the TABC has issued orders cancelling the alcoholic beverage permits belonging to Acoustic Cafe, LLC d/b/a Spill and 907, LLC d/b/a Fuel. Links to the orders may be found below. Board Order &#8211; 607, LLC DBA Fuel Board Order &#8211; Acoustic Cafe, LLC dba Spill &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING NEWS &#8211; Yassine Exceptions to TABC Permit Ruling Denied in Full &#8211; Austin Bars a Step Closer to Opening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hussein Ali &#8220;Mike&#8221; Yassine&#8217;s former clubs&#8217; alcoholic beverage permits are one step closer to being cancelled as of yesterday.  On January 8, 2013, Admin. Law Judge William Newchurch filed his recommendation regarding Yassine&#8217;s exceptions to Newchurch&#8217;s Proposal for Decision, which was issued on 12.20.2012 (available HERE).  In his exceptions, Yassine&#8217;s attorney argued that (i) Yassine did not have a bad reputation for being a law-abiding citizen, (ii) that Mr. Yassine was in fact of good moral character, and (iii) that Newchurch failed to rule on the capacity argument put forth by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. In his response to Yassine&#8217;s exceptions, Newchurch stated that his basis for recommending termination of the permits was the fact that Mike Yassine had been convicted in federal court by a jury on three counts of laundering monetary instruments and one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.  Specifically, Newchurch stated:      &#8220;Despite [the four federal court criminal convictions], [Yassine] argue[s] that the convictions alone are not sufficeint evidence to show that Mr. Yassine and they have a bad reputaiton for being peaceable and law-abiding in the community where they reside.  As discussed in the [Proposal for Decision], I disagree.  I have nothing more to add&#8221; Removing the legalese, Yassine&#8217;s argument can be boiled down to the following: Even though I was charged with money laundering, convicted of money laundering by a jury in federal court, and am in the Bastrop County Jail awaiting sentencing for those crimes, people in my community probably still think I am a law-abiding citizen.  Therefore, I should be able to keep my TABC permits. To add to this quixotic argument, remember that even if Yassine retained his alcoholic beverage permits, he has no ability to sell alcohol.  Court records reflect that landlords where he formerly operated his businesses have evicted the businesses.  Because Yassine&#8217;s alcoholic beverage permits are tied to those specific addresses (which is the source of much of this debacle), even if Yassine won his argument, he would have no ability to use those permits. In responding to Yassine&#8217;s argument that he is of good moral character, Judge Newchurch stated that a conclusion to that effect was not reached in the proposal for decision.  Rather, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code § 11.61(b)(6) provided two separate bases for cancelling Yassine&#8217;s permits: (i) that Yasine was not of good moral character; or (ii) that Yassine&#8217;s reputation for being a law-abiding citizen in the community was bad.  Newchurch based his recommendation to cancel the permits on the latter. To read the full text of Judge Newchurch&#8217;s response in .pdf format, click the following:  ALJ Response. A list of the business entities involved in this matter may be found below: 1.  706, L.L.C. d/b/a Fuel 2. Acoustic Cafe, LLC d/b/a Spill 3. Pure Austin Nightclub, LLC d/b/a Pure 4. Blue Water Concessions, Inc. d/b/a Stack Burger 5. Vicci, Inc. d/b/a Kiss &#38; Fly 6. Downtown Austin Group d/b/a Roial 7. Walachi, Inc. d/b/a Malaia 8.  Island of Treasure, LLC d/b/a Treasure Island Pirate Bar 9. Warehouse Entertainment d/b/a Hyde]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Proposes Expansion of Definition of &#8220;Economically Disadvantaged Person&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Joe Farias (D-118) has proposed a modification to the Texas Government Code involving the definition of an &#8220;economically disadvantaged person.&#8221; This definition relates to the owners of businesses that qualify as historically underutilized businesses for purposes of state contracting.  HB 184 expands  the definition of an economically disadvantaged person to include &#8220;veterans as defined by 38 U.S.C. Section 101(2) who have a service-connected disability as defined in by 38 U.S.C. 101(16).&#8221; In doing so, HB 194 would expand the definition of economically disadvantaged person from being one solely based on sex, race, or ethnicity. For the full text of the proposed changes to the code, CLICK HERE. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Does Texas Need Another Law School? HB 67 Proposes the Rio Grande Valley School of Law.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new bill filed in the Texas legislature proposes the creation of Texas&#8217;s 11th law school.  Rep. Eddie Lucio III (D-38) has filed HB 67, which proposes the creation of the Rio Grande Valley School of Law.  The bill authorizes the University of Texas to create a new law school in either Cameron County, part of which Lucio represents, or Hidalgo County.  HB 67 requires a feasibility commission with regards to the accreditation of the new law school, but makes no mention of any study regarding whether or not a new law school is needed in the state. This bill follows the authorization of the UNT Dallas School of law in the previous legislative session, which created a new law school in Dallas. If you would like to read the full version of the HB 67 as introduced, CLICK HERE.]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. White Files Bill to Redefine &#8220;Historically Underutilized Business&#8221; in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 11, 2012, Rep. James White filed a H.B. 93, which proposes changing the Government Code&#8217;s definition of what constitutes a &#8220;Historically Underutilized Business&#8221; (&#8220;HUB&#8221;) in Texas.  H.B. 93 proposes that the definition of what constitutes a HUB in Texas be modified to include, as an alternative to the existing definitions which center around economically disadvantaged persons, &#8220;&#8230;entit[ies] with one or more places of business each located in the unincorporated area of a county with a population of 60,000 or less.&#8221;  If the language in this statute were modified in this manner, then conceivably any business entity with its places of business located in the unincorporated portion of a county with a population of 60,000 or less would gain the benefits of HUB status, regardless of whether the owners, operators, managers, or directors of said business were members of an economically disadvantaged group. Click HERE for a link to the full text of the bill as introduced. &#160;]]></description>
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