Podcast: Tax Reform and Its Impact on Exempt Organizations, One Year In
Podcast - New Unrelated Business Taxable Income Liability for Providing Certain Fringe Benefits
On December 20, 2019, Congress retroactively repealed Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 512(a)(7), which had increased unrelated business taxable income by amounts paid or incurred for qualified transportation fringes....more
Late on Friday, December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law government funding legislation for the 2020 fiscal year that includes a provision repealing Section 512(a)(7), commonly referred to as the “parking tax.”...more
Do you provide parking for your employees? If so, take note: the expense has gone up (and, for tax-exempt employers, may now result in additional tax liability!)....more
In Notice 2018-99, the Internal Revenue Service sets forth interim guidance for taxpayers to determine parking expenses for qualified transportation fringes (QTFs) that are nondeductible and for tax-exempt organizations to...more
December 10, 2018 saw significant activity with respect to Section 512(a)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”), which requires tax-exempt employers to increase their unrelated business taxable income (“UBTI”) by...more
The IRS issued two pieces of interim guidance with respect to the new treatment of qualified transportation fringe benefits following the changes made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Act). The Tax Act required parking...more
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service today issued interim guidance regarding the treatment of qualified transportation fringe benefit expenses paid or incurred after Dec. 31, 2017. The new rules assist taxpayers in...more
On December 15, 2017, the House and Senate conference committee agreed on the terms of the final tax reform bill, previously referred to as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (the “Act”), which was subsequently approved by both...more
Recently, a CPA lost his own business automobile deduction case in the U.S. Tax Court. The CPA had deducted business automobile expenses based on calculations from an after the fact MapQuest and not a contemporaneous diary...more
As discussed in a prior WorkCite article, the recently enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (the Act) permanently removed the disparity between the taxation of (i) commuter vehicle/transit benefits and (ii) qualified...more
On Friday, December 18, 2015, when President Obama signed the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act into law, one of the provisions included in the law made the monthly limit on qualified transportation benefits for...more
The number of additional months of funding for transportation projects under a $8 billion bill introduced late last night in the House. Notably — as anyone on Sesame Street could tell you — the number 5 is not the same as the...more