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Following the initial public release of private letter ruling (PLR) 20242002 as part of a state rate proceeding, on June 28, 2024, the IRS publicly released that ruling, as well as two companion rulings obtained by other...more
Earlier this week the White House released its Fiscal Year 2025 Budget. Of course, the federal government has not yet adopted a budget for the Fiscal Year 2024 even as we approach that year’s halfway mark. But I digress. The...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of December 5, 2022 – December 9, 2022...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of December 27, 2021 – December 31, 2021... December 27, 2021: The IRS published a news release...more
On December 21, 2020, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and the IRS released final regulations (Regulations) under Section 451 for determining the taxable year in which an amount must be reported as gross income on the...more
An individual or trust US shareholder of a controlled foreign corporation (CFC) faces harsh treatment under the global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) regime. These tax implications have forced these taxpayers to pursue...more
On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order to the Secretary of Treasury directing the Department to defer the obligation of employers to withhold, deposit, and pay the employee share of Social Security...more
On August 28, the U.S. Treasury Department and the IRS issued guidance to employers regarding the executive action taken earlier this month to defer certain employee payroll taxes through the end of the year. The guidance...more
The US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service have issued guidance with respect to US President Donald Trump’s August 8, 2020 Memorandum on Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations in Light of the Ongoing...more
On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued an executive action directing the Secretary of the Treasury to use the Secretary’s authority under Section 7508A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), which...more
Following President Trump’s Aug. 8 presidential memorandum directing the Treasury Secretary to defer the withholding and payment of certain employee payroll taxes, the Internal Revenue Service released Notice 2020-65 on Aug....more
In response to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the U.S. Congress, the executive branch, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have taken several actions intended to provide immediate relief to taxpayers. In...more
To assist employees with the economic hardships resulting from COVID-19, recent guidance provides relief in the form of a payroll tax deferral (Deferral Program). Internal Revenue Service Notice 2020-65 (Notice)1 provides...more
Following unsuccessful congressional attempts to extend COVID-19 pandemic relief measures, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum that allows employers to defer the employee portion of federal payroll taxes for the...more
On August 8, 2020, President Donald J. Trump issued a “Memorandum on Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations in Light of the Ongoing COVID-19 Disaster” (the “Executive Order”) directing the Treasury Secretary to defer employer...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued Notice 2020-65 (Notice), which provides guidance regarding the employee payroll tax deferral that was announced by the White House on the August 8, 2020 (Executive Order)....more
On August 28, 2020, the IRS published Notice 2020-65 (the “Notice”) to provide guidance on the deferral of payroll tax withholdings, as directed by President Trump’s previously issued Executive Order. Whereas the CARES Act...more
On August 28, 2020, the IRS issued Notice 2020-65 (“Notice”) to provide guidance concerning the Executive Order that President Trump issued on August 8, 2020 (“Executive Order”). Per the Notice, the Secretary of the Treasury...more
On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order directing the Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to defer the withholding, deposit, and payment of certain payroll taxes beginning September 1, 2020 through...more
On Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, the Department of the Treasury released Notice 2020-65 (the "Notice") which provides some long-awaited guidance for the payroll tax deferral announced in the Presidential Memorandum issued by...more
On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued an executive order, directing the U.S. Treasury to grant employers the ability to defer the withholding, deposit and payment of certain payroll taxes as further COVID-19 tax relief....more
On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit employers to defer the withholding and deposit of certain payroll tax obligations. In response, the Treasury...more
On Friday, August 28, Treasury released Notice 2020-65, which provides guidance to employers that wish to implement President Trump’s Executive Order allowing a temporary deferral of employee-side Social Security taxes. The...more
In a Memorandum to the Secretary of the Treasury, President Trump directed that the Secretary use his authority to defer the withholding and payment of the employee’s share of certain Social Security taxes for the period...more
On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued the Presidential Memorandum on Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations in Light of the Ongoing COVID-19 Disaster (the “Executive Order”). The Executive Order instructed the Treasury...more