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Proposed regulations add certain basket contracts to list of listed transactions

On July 17, 2024, the Department of Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) identifying certain “basket contract” transactions, and transactions that are...more

Gray Reed

IRS Further Combats Basket Contract Transactions with Proposed Regs

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The Treasury Department and IRS have just published proposed Regulations that would identify transactions resembling certain basket contract transactions as listed transactions per the meaning of Section 6011, making them...more

DarrowEverett LLP

IRS Targeting Partnership Basis-Shifting Transaction Schemes

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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

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Treasury Department and IRS Issue Final Regulations and Other Guidance on the Direct Pay Election under Section 6417 of the...

Under Section 6417 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), “applicable entities” and certain electing taxpayers can elect to treat various renewable energy tax credits as payments against tax, essentially making those credits...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

How Will the New Crypto Tax Proposal Potentially Affect Your Current Digital Strategy?

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How will the administration’s new crypto tax proposal affect your current digital strategy? How do recent price surges in many cryptocurrencies affect the taxable events of US taxpayers? The value of many...more

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP

Digital Assets Reporting Requirements Under Section 6050I

On January 16, 2024, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) announced that the agencies are postponing the implementation of increased reporting requirements for digital asset transactions under the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Treasury Delivers Mother Lode of Tax Reporting Rules to the Crypto Industry’s Doorstep

On August 29, 2023, the IRS published detailed proposed regulations addressing digital asset broker reporting requirements (the “Proposed Regulations”). The Proposed Regulations elaborate on the 2021 changes to the Internal...more

Mayer Brown

US Treasury to Propose Regulations on Energy Community Bonus Adders

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On April 4, 2023, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a notice of intent to issue proposed regulations on qualifying for the energy community bonus credit under Sections...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Proposed Treasury Regulations Would Disallow Technique to Reduce Subpart F and GILTI Inclusions

On December 9, 2022, Treasury released proposed regulations that would prevent consolidated groups from engaging in certain related party transactions to reduce the group’s Subpart F and GILTI inclusions. Specifically,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

IRS Appeals Will Not Consider Regulatory Invalidity and Subregulatory Procedural Invalidity Challenges

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In Mayo Found. for Med. Educ. & Rsch. v. United States, 131 S.Ct. 704 (2011), the Supreme Court of the United States made clear that administrative law rules apply to tax guidance like they do to other federal agency...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Proposed Regs Affect PFIC Elections

On January 25, 2022, the IRS and Treasury proposed regulations that would treat U.S. partners, instead of their partnerships, as PFIC shareholders for making qualified electing fund, mark-to-market, or purging elections,...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

IRS Final Regulations on Timing of Income Recognition Provide Much-Needed Clarity, But Leave Some Questions Unanswered

On December 21, 2020, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and the IRS released final regulations (Regulations) under Section 451 for determining the taxable year in which an amount must be reported as gross income on the...more

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 “Passthrough Deduction” Regulations for RICs Finalized with No Major Changes

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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

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Changing the BEAT - Final regulations answer key questions, proposed regulations give new relief

A year after the initial proposed BEAT regulations were released, Treasury and the IRS have issued a package of final and proposed regulations under § 59A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New IRS Rules on Timing of Income Recognition Raise Questions

On September 5, 2019, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and the IRS released proposed regulations (Regulations) that would impact when accrual method taxpayers report amounts in gross income. Generally, Section 451 provides...more

Alston & Bird

Proposed Regulations Address Post-Reform Interest Expense Limitation

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In long-awaited guidance on Section 163(j) post-tax reform, the Treasury and IRS present taxpayers with an expansive definition of “interest,” subjective anti-abuse rules, complex computational instructions, and several...more

Fenwick & West LLP

The New Foreign Tax Credit Proposed Regulations – An Executive Summary

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Released on November 30, 2018, the foreign tax credit proposed regulations provide a comprehensive new framework for calculating the foreign tax credit in light of several changes made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA or...more

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Newly Proposed US Tax Regulations Open Possibility of Full Credit Support from Foreign Subsidiaries

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On October 31, 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") proposed new regulations under Section 956 of the Code (the "Proposed Regulations") that are likely to enhance the availability of...more

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Proposed Treasury Regulations Impact “Deemed Dividend” Tax Rules in Financing Transactions

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Following tax reform at the end of 2017, cash dividends from a foreign corporate subsidiary to a domestic corporate 10 percent shareholder are exempt from U.S. income tax because the shareholder is permitted a...more

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Treasury Issues Proposed Regulations on Opportunity Zones

On October 19, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations relating to the new Opportunity Zone program....more

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New IRS Regulations Issued: What’s Next for Opportunity Zones?

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Real estate developers, fund sponsors, and property owners have been eagerly awaiting guidance on the new Qualified Opportunity Zone ("QOZ") provisions included in last December’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Qualified Opportunity Zone Proposed Regulations Provide a Path Forward for Fund Formations, But Leave Many Questions for Another...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On October 19, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released long-anticipated proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) relating to investments in Qualified Opportunity Zones (“QOZs”)....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

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New Qualified Opportunity Fund Guidance – Significant Forward Progress but Important Questions Remain Unanswered

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The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service recently issued proposed regulations (the Proposed Regulations) and Revenue Ruling 2018-29 (the QOZ Revenue Ruling), providing much anticipated guidance for Qualified...more

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Window of Opportunity: The IRS Issues Initial Guidance on Qualified Opportunity Zone Rules

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The new rules address a number of issues that investors and sponsors were waiting for guidance on. The IRS has promised further guidance to address issues that remain in need of clarification. ...more

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