On January 16, 2025, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published new proposed regulations related to tax-free spin-offs and split-offs (collectively, spin-offs) and other corporate...more
On January 13, the U.S. Treasury and Internal Revenue Service released long-awaited proposed regulations governing the treatment of certain features of tax-free corporate spin-off and split-off transactions. The IRS and...more
On May 1, 2024, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2024-24 (Revenue Procedure), which sets out substantially revised guidelines for private letter ruling (PLR)...more
Over the last three months, public statements by U.S. Treasury and Internal Revenue Service officials have suggested that they are in the process of significantly revising the rules governing tax-free spin-offs, split-offs...more
On November 18, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published private letter ruling 202246008 (the PLR), which concluded that a transaction qualifies as a tax-free spin-off under Section 3552 despite the fact that the...more
The Bracewell Tax Report is a periodic publication focused on developments in federal income tax law, including the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, with emphasis on how such developments impact the energy, technology...more
On July 14, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury Department proposed new Treasury regulations that, if finalized, would generally become effective for distributions under Section 355 of the Internal Revenue...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury Department today issued a much-welcomed technical correction to the effective date of the recently issued “built-in gain” regulations regarding real estate investment trust...more