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On June 21, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Proposed Rule”) to implement Executive Order 14105 (“EO”) establishing a new Outbound Investment Program ("OIP") to prohibit or...more
On May 29, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Treasury issued proposed regulations (REG-119283-23) addressing the new technology neutral clean electricity production tax credit (PTC) in section 45Y...more
On February 13, 2024, FinCEN proposed a long-awaited rule to combat illicit finance and national security threats in the asset management industry. The new rule would impose similar requirements on investment advisers that...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") has proposed regulations for calculating methane emissions fees required beginning this year under the Inflation Reduction Act ("IRA"). Section 136 of the Clean Air Act (added...more
The US Treasury Department and the IRS have released new proposed regulations on sales and exchanges of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs. What taxes would a US taxpayer owe associated...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) requires group health plans and insurers to cover treatments for mental health and substance use disorders in a manner that is equitable to the...more
Summary - The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury have proposed regulations under the Mental Health Parity Act that build on prior guidance to set forth requirements for an extremely detailed...more
Summary - On July 25, 2023, the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health & Human Services (the Departments) released joint proposed regulations and other guidance under the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health...more
The July Monthly Minute introduces Part I of our mental health parity update and provides highlights of the newly released proposed rules under the MHPAEA. Part I: New Proposed Rules Addressing Mental Health Parity...more
In our recent article Amid TikTok Tensions, CFIUS Signals Increased Enforcement and Other Updates, we discussed updates from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or “the Committee”) primarily with...more
The US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) published an official notice on November 10, 2020, seeking comments from interested parties on proposed new rules promulgated under the latest version of the Terrorism Risk...more
On May 21, 2020, a proposed rule change brought the threat of a mandatory CFIUS filing to investments across all U.S. industries. The U.S. Department of Treasury proposed a rule that removes a restriction formerly in the...more
Following the February 13, 2020 effective date of the U.S. Department of Treasury's final regulations (the "Final Rules") implementing the majority of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 ("FIRRMA"),...more
As we previously reported, on June 13, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (collectively, the “Departments”) issued a coordinated set of final regulations (“final rules”) permitting employers...more
Last week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released proposed rules providing tax guidance around various LIBOR replacement issues. Long anticipated. The defenestration of LIBOR will leave considerable broken glass in its...more
The US Department of the Treasury recently published for public comment two proposed regulations that will expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and make substantive...more
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The US Treasury Department issued proposed regulations that would “comprehensively” implement legislation passed last year, FIRRMA, to broaden the jurisdiction of CFIUS. Interested parties have until October 17 to file...more
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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of September 2 – 6, 2019. September 3, 2019: The IRS issued a notice in which it released the...more
Interest in Qualified Opportunity Zones ("QOZs") has increased since October 29, 2018, when the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service published the proposed rules relating to QOZs in the Federal...more