News & Analysis as of

Asset Management Internal Revenue Service Internal Revenue Code (IRC)

Gray Reed

Federal Income Taxation of Intellectual Property Development and Cost Recovery

Gray Reed on

Intellectual property (“IP”) development can cost millions of dollars so cost recovery timing can be financially material. General tax principles typically require that expenses associated with creating assets having useful...more

Blank Rome LLP

Avoiding Zero Basis for Inherited Assets

Blank Rome LLP on

Practitioners involved with the administration of trusts and estates of a decedent may be confronted with the issue of dealing with one or more assets of a decedent discovered after the administration is believed to have been...more

Proskauer - Tax Talks

Tax Court holds that an offshore fund is engaged in a U.S. trade or business

Proskauer - Tax Talks on

On November 15, 2023, the U.S. Tax Court held in YA Global Investments v. Commissioner that a non-U.S. private equity fund (YA Global) with a U.S. asset manager that bought equity and convertible debt of U.S. portfolio...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Top Tax and Legal Considerations for Wealthy Families Going Global

Greenberg Glusker LLP on

In recent years, we have seen high net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth families become, increasingly, “global citizens.” As families and their assets touch multiple jurisdictions, a myriad of issues become especially important...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Massachusetts Doubles Estate Tax Threshold as Part of $1 Billion Tax Reform Act

Goulston & Storrs PC on

On October 4, 2023, Massachusetts enacted a new law called “An Act to improve the Commonwealth’s competitiveness, affordability, and equity” (the “Act”). The Act makes several tax law changes relevant to Massachusetts...more

Gray Reed

The IRS is Attacking Abusive Trust Arrangements

Gray Reed on

Recent Government actions suggest that third-party promoters and potentially hundreds of taxpayers may be entering into abusive trust arrangements aimed at unlawfully eliminating or deferring federal income taxes....more

ASKramer Law

Taxation of Derivatives Held by Investors: What to Know

ASKramer Law on

The taxation of derivatives and financial products has developed in an uncoordinated and piecemeal fashion. Tax rules have largely been enacted in response to what the government has perceived as abusive transactions —...more

Freeman Law

What is a Trust?

Freeman Law on

Trusts - Trusts play an important role in estate and tax planning. A trust is a fiduciary arrangement that allows a trustee to hold legal title to assets for the benefit of a beneficiary. The beneficiary is, in turn, said...more

Foster Garvey PC

Opportunity Zone Funds – Part IV: The Second Round of Proposed Regulations

Foster Garvey PC on

On April 17, 2019, Treasury issued its second installment of proposed regulations relating to Qualified Opportunity Zones (“QOZs”). The regulations are 169 pages in length, and (as suspected) are fairly complex. Nevertheless,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Opportunity Zones: New Guidance Sheds Light on How Private Equity Industry Can Take Advantage

• Proposed regulations issued on October 19 provide welcome guidance to asset managers regarding the formation of qualified opportunity funds (QOFs) that may provide investors with the following three tax benefits: (1)...more

10 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide