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On April 9, 2024, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued two sets of proposed Treasury Regulations related to section 4501, REG-115710-22, which provides guidance on...more
Debt Limit Deadline Draws Nigh - President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are scheduled to meet one-on-one today, just 10 days ahead of the June 1 debt limit deadline....more
August 2, 2022- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "'The Rent Eats First': How Renters and Communities are Impacted by Today's Housing Market."...more
I attended a seminar offered by accountant, Mitchell E. Benson, CPA, MT, CFF (Savran Benson LLP), Brian C. Vertz, Esquire (Pollock Begg) and Aliah Molczan (Savran Benson LLP) on July 9, 2020. One of the topics discussed was...more
The Main Street Lending Program, authorized under the CARES Act and Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act, is designed to provide financial assistance to small and medium sized businesses. There will be three Main Street...more
The final debt-equity regulations issued on May 13, 2020, finalize proposed section 385 regulations issued in 2016 without any substantive changes to the existing debt-equity regulations, and withdraw the temporary section...more
On Nov. 4, 2019, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) published final debt-equity regulations (the Final Regulations) and an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (the...more
EDITOR’S NOTE - The holidays came early for the financial services industry. First, the Senate voted to repeal the CFPB’s rule banning class waivers in arbitration agreements in consumer financial contracts. Then,...more
Although There Are Aspects of the Regulations that Practitioners and Taxpayers Still Disagree With, There Are Others that Are an Improvement on What Was Proposed Earlier. From 2013 through 2014, the IRS and the U.S....more
On October 13, 2016, the IRS and Treasury Department issued much anticipated regulations (the “Final” or “Temporary” Regulations) under Internal Revenue Code section 385. These regulations, which consist of both temporary...more
On October 22, 2016, the Treasury finalized the debt/equity regulations under Section 385 it had proposed in April. The 517-page package can daunt even the most motivated readers. “Expanded groups” (EG) that know they will be...more
On October 13, 2016, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service issued final and temporary regulations under section 385. The final and temporary regulations recharacterize certain debt instruments as equity for...more
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service issued final and temporary regulations (the “2016 Regulations”) on October 5, 2016 addressing the partnership disguised sale and debt allocation rules. The 2016...more
On Oct. 13, 2016, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final and temporary regulations under Section 385 governing the treatment of certain instruments as debt or equity...more
On October 5, 2016, the IRS and Treasury released a package of new regulations under Code sections 707 and 752 designed to curtail the use of debt to reduce tax on the contribution of appreciated assets to leveraged...more
Determining the difference between debt and equity is a problem that has bedeviled taxpayers and tax administrators for decades. Taxpayers, recognizing that there are tax advantages to financing a corporation with debt (e.g.,...more
The U.S. Treasury Department issued new proposed tax regulations that would re-characterize certain related party debt as equity, resulting in dividend payments rather than tax deductible interest payments. If finalized in...more
On April 4, 2016, the IRS and Treasury issued proposed regulations under Section 385 (the “Proposed Regulations“). The Proposed Regulations, which were thought to have been a response to post-inversion earnings stripping...more
The Treasury Department has recently promulgated proposed regulations dealing with so-called inversion transactions. Inversion transactions are ones in which a U.S. corporation changes its domicile to a nation with a more...more
On April 4, 2016, Treasury and the IRS proposed sweeping regulations under § 385 of the Code. Issued the same day as the anti-inversion temporary regulations, the proposed § 385 rules would go much farther than merely...more
Multinational groups can strip U.S. earnings away from U.S. taxation by having a domestic corporation issue debt and pay earnings out to foreign affiliates as deductible interest. This strategy could be used after an...more
The rules of IRC § 1504 and Treas. Reg. § 1.1502-47 provide the general parameters for determining whether a domestic life insurance company (within the meaning of IRC § 816(a)) may join in filing a consolidated U.S. federal...more
Earlier this month, the IRS and Treasury Department proposed new Treasury regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under Section 385 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Proposed Regulations would significantly modify the tax...more
The U.S. Treasury Department (“Treasury”) and Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) recently issued proposed regulations (the “New Proposed Regulations”) governing the federal income tax treatment of debt between certain related...more
Recently proposed Treasury regulations under IRC § 385 (the Proposed Regulations) would create sweeping changes to the federal income tax treatment of related-party debt. The Proposed Regulations could also have far-reaching...more