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The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS,” or the “Service”) issued guidance on June 17, proposing new regulations and releasing a revenue ruling to challenge the use of basis-shifting transactions by complex partnerships. In...more
Earlier this week, Treasury and the IRS issued guidance to halt the use of partnership rules in the Internal Revenue Code to engage in abusive basis-shifting transactions whereby tax basis is stripped from certain assets and...more
Earlier this year, Alabama became one of 19 or so states to enact a pass-through entity tax as a workaround to the so-called "SALT Cap" enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which limits the deductibility of...more
Not Good- As Mr. Biden settled into the White House, and as the Democrats began planning how to best utilize their slim Congressional majority to enact and pay for their sweeping legislative agenda, the principal concern...more
Tax Gap- In a report released last week, the U.S. Treasury Department explained that the so-called “tax gap” – i.e., the difference between the amount of federal income taxes owed by taxpayers for a taxable year and the...more
For three years, states and taxpayers have been looking for novel ways to get around the federal TCJA's $10,000 cap on deducting state and local taxes. The IRS just released Notice 2020-75, which appears to bless states'...more
The 2017 Tax Act made life harder on individuals living in high tax states (such as New York, New Jersey, and California) by limiting the deduction for state and local taxes (“SALT”) to $10,000. In an attempt to circumvent...more
One of the most controversial individual income tax changes enacted under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) is the $10,000 cap on the deduction for state and local income and property taxes (“SALT”) for federal income tax...more
In a surprising—but taxpayer-friendly—development, Treasury announced in Notice 2020-75 (available here) that it will be issuing proposed regulations that allow partnerships and S corporations to deduct certain state and...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 Tax Act) limited the deduction of state and local taxes to $10,000 for individuals. Several states, including Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland, have passed legislation that imposed income...more
Monday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a press release and related notice regarding proposed regulations which clarify that the $10,000 cap on state and local tax (SALT)...more
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service recently released proposed regulations under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.1 Congress enacted Section 1061 in 2017 in order to...more
On August 14, 2020, the IRS published Proposed Treasury Regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code to close the “carried interest loop hole” through which managers of investment...more
On July 31, 2020, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") and the U.S. Treasury Department ("Treasury") issued proposed regulations (the "Proposed Regulations") that provide taxpayers with definitional and computational...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) on July 31, 2020 issued long-awaited proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) providing guidance under section 1061...more
On June 10, 2020, in Nelson v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2020-81, the Tax Court ruled in favor of the IRS and against a taxpayer who attempted to use a defined value provision to value a transfer of assets. The taxpayer’s...more
On June 24, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the U.S. Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) issued final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) on the application of the “passthrough deduction” under Section...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) repealed the long-standing “50/50” sourcing rule for United States exporters of manufactured products. Under the new rules, which source income of a “producer” solely to the place of...more
The U.S. Department of Treasury published Final Regulations for the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program on January 13, 2020, which answer many, but not all, of the questions arising from the Proposed Regulations released...more
On December 16, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations... that provide some good news and needed clarification for C corporations, individuals, and S corporations and other...more
Now that the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have issued ?nal regulations to address at least some variations of so-called ‘‘SALT cap workarounds’’ to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s limitation on individual...more
Now that the dust has settled following the issuance of the final “SALT cap workaround” regulations by the Treasury Department, here’s a summary of those regulations, the IRS guidance issued in connection with the final...more
Highlights - • In an unanticipated development, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued regulations (New Guidance) that significantly modifies the taxation of U.S....more
OVERVIEW OF QUALIFIED OPPORTUNITY ZONE PROGRAM - The Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program, introduced in 2017’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, is a new incentive program for investments in over 8,700 QOZs located in all 50...more
Comments are due on April 9, 2019 with respect to the recent proposed regulations regarding eligibility of qualified REIT dividends for the qualified business income deduction under Code Section 199A. On January 18, 2019...more