Life Sciences Quarterly: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Implications for Life Science Business
Tax Developments Affecting Health Care Organizations and Investor-Owned Hospital Companies
There shall be allowed as a deduction, an amount equal to the cost of energy efficient commercial building property (EECBP) placed in service during the taxable year. Maximum amount of deduction: the product of the...more
The advent of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), along with recent disruptions to global supply chains, has generated opportunities once again to relocate business and manufacturing operations closer to the...more
Investing in commercial real estate can offer various tax incentives that can help investors reduce their tax liability and enhance the overall profitability of their investments. Below is a non-exhaustive summary of key tax...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of April 17, 2022 – April 23, 2022... April 18, 2022: The IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2022-9,...more
This article is part of a series about methods investors use to evaluate investment profitability. A previous article discussed cash on cash return. This article focuses on IRR....more
Like music theorists, real estate investors also have methods for describing how to value a property. At the most fundamental level, real estate investors are concerned about how much cash they need to invest the property...more
“Yeah, I’m the Tax Man” Last week, several media outlets reported that Mr. Biden will soon propose that Congress increase the federal income tax rate applicable to long-term capital gains recognized by individual...more
The IRS on Friday released Rev. Proc. 2020-25 to provide guidance for taxpayers who may benefit from the recent correction by the CARES Act of the so-called “retail glitch” (a drafting error in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act)...more
On September 13, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued final and reproposed regulations under § 168(k) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), the provision of the Tax Cuts...more
Despite being to a leasing trade association, the focus of the presentation is the partnership flip structure. The presentation includes appendices on the phase down of tax credits for solar and the phase out of tax credits...more
One of the lessor discussed items in the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) has been the change to Section 1031, limiting the like-kind exchange provisions to exchanges of real property only. Section 1031 of...more
• As noted in Part 1 of this series, new H.R. 1, informally known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Act), has been the most important change to the U.S. tax code in a generation. • In Part 2, this client alert continues to...more
In a “Sizing Up in Violins and Investment Real Estate,” another post in the Orchestrating Real Estate series, I discussed how buying increasingly larger (and more expensive) violins compares to real estate investments. I...more
Congress and the Administration have been busy recently, enacting not only the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" or "TCJA" on December 22, 2017, but also a Continuing Resolution on January 23, 2018, and the Bipartisan Budget Act of...more
On December 22, 2017, H.R.1, commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“Tax Act”) was signed into law. The Tax Act made the most significant changes to the U.S. tax code since 1986, and will have an effect on...more
On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the most extensive overhaul of the United States tax regime in over thirty years. The new tax laws will have a significant impact upon...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act contains changes impacting the LIHTC Program. While the low-income housing tax credit program emerged largely unscathed, the reduction in corporate tax rates will reduce equity pricing. ...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”) was signed into law by President Donald Trump on December 22, 2017. The Act changes many provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, from individual and business provisions, to...more
On November 9, 2017, the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) released a summary of its initial draft tax proposal (the Senate proposal). While the Senate proposal is similar to the House Ways and Means Committee’s proposal (the...more
It has been a busy week in Washington, D.C., as Congress works its way through tax reform. The House Ways and Means Committee completed its "markup" of the House bill this week, paving the way for a floor vote on the measure...more
With Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and the White House starting in 2017, the federal government is now better positioned to move forward on comprehensive tax reform, with...more
The Senate Finance Committee released a tax reform staff discussion draft on cost recovery and accounting as part of a series of tax reform proposals in late 2013. The Cost Recovery and Accounting (“CR&A”) proposal completely...more
On November 21, 2013, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus released the third package in a series of "Staff Discussion Drafts" containing proposals to reform the tax code. This third set of proposals focuses on...more
New regulations issued by Treasury under Section 336(e) permit certain stock acquisitions to be treated as asset purchases, allowing buyers access to stepped-up asset basis and corresponding depreciation and amortization...more