On April 12, 2024, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations (89 FR 25980 and 89 FR 25829) on the excise tax on stock buybacks enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction...more
4/18/2024
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In legislative text released October 28, 2021, the House Rules Committee proposed to impose a 1% excise tax on stock repurchases by publicly traded companies starting in 2022. If the provision is enacted, corporations will...more
On October 4, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued a sweeping package of proposed, temporary and final regulations under the Internal Revenue Code that, among other things, significantly...more
10/10/2016
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