Monthly Minute | January 2020
On September 23, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a memorandum (AM 2022-003) concluding that taxpayers cannot make advance payments of section 367(d) inclusions except in the limited situation in which the US...more
The Source of Income from the Sale of Personal Property Generally, income from the sale of personal property is “sourced” to the residence of the seller. If the seller is a U.S. tax resident the source of the income is deemed...more
Tax Litigation: The Week of February 7 – February 11, 2022 Williams v. Commissioner Sloane v. Commissioner TBL Licensing LLC v. Comm’r, Corrected 158 T.C. 1 | February 8, 2022 | Filed January 31, 2022 | Halpern, J. | Dkt. No....more
Effective December 2, 2020, the IRS issued its Final Regulations (the “Final Regs”) clarifying what is real property under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code. The IRS issued these regulations to provide guidance in...more
On November 23, 2020, the IRS and Treasury Department released final regulations (the Final Regulations) under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code). Prior to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of...more
The final and proposed regulations under sections 951A and 954 of the US Internal Revenue Code contain certain rules that may present planning opportunities—or possibly onerous results—depending on a taxpayer’s specific fact...more
The unfolding Altera Corporation & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner (Altera) saga bore witness to another taxpayer-unfriendly development on June 7, when the Ninth Circuit chose in a 2-1 vote to uphold certain Treasury...more
On April 11, 2018, the General Assembly’s Revenue Laws Study Committee released a draft tax bill for possible introduction in the legislative session that convenes May 16. This Alert provides a summary of the more important...more
The 2017 tax reform legislation added section 250 to the Internal Revenue Code, effectively creating a new preferential tax rate for income derived by domestic corporations from serving foreign markets. The new deduction is...more
The recently released final regulations are generally consistent with the 2014 proposed regulations in their treatment of renewable energy and transmission assets, with several useful clarifications provided. ...more
I. Overview - On August 6, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department announced their intention in Notice 2015-54 (the “Notice”) to issue regulations (the “Future Regulations”) under...more
On August 6, 2015, 18 years after U.S. Congress authorized regulations under Internal Revenue Code Section 721(c), the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2015-54 announcing...more