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Corporate Taxes Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Choose your own adventure: IRS releases Rev. Proc. 2020-25 providing taxpayers with options to utilize the CARES Act’s QIP...

On April 17, 2020, the IRS released Rev. Proc. 2020-25, which provides procedural guidance to secure bonus depreciation with respect to qualified improvement property (QIP) made by the CARES Act. Due to a scrivener’s error in...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Bonus Depreciation: What You Need to Know for Your Business

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Since 2002, bonus depreciation under the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act has been allowed in some form. Bonus depreciation allows for more current expensing for eligible property than allowed under the current...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

BREAKING NEWS: Congress Sends Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to President Trump’s Desk for Signing

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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has been passed by both houses of Congress and is now set to be signed into law by President Trump. The vote was 224-201 in the House with all the Democrats joined by twelve Republicans voting...more

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Senate Tax Proposal Provides Encouraging News for Wind

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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch recently released his Chairman’s Mark of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Senate Proposal) in advance of the Senate Finance Committee markup scheduled to begin today. The Senate...more

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The GOP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Includes Changes Impacting the Renewable Energy Industry

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On November 3rd, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R. Tex.) released the “chairman’s mark” to H.R. 1, the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (TCJA). The TCJA represents the most extensive rewrite of the Internal...more

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IRS Reduces Built-in Gains Tax Period for REITs to Five Years

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One of the key benefits of a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) is that it is effectively a pass through entity for income tax purposes. While a REIT pays tax on its taxable income, it also receives a dividends paid...more

Smith Anderson

Major Tax Legislation Enacted by the Short Session of the 2015-16 General Assembly

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This Alert summarizes the major tax provisions included in legislation passed by the 2015-2016 North Carolina General Assembly in its short session, which concluded earlier this month. The most widely discussed tax...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Treasury Expands Scope of REIT Spin-Off Rules in New Regulations

On June 7, the Treasury Department released temporary regulations (the “Temporary Regulations”) that expand the types of spinoff transactions subject to the rules under Section 337(d)2 requiring gain recognition where either...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"IRS Expands REIT Spin-Off Restrictions, Extends REIT Built-in Gains Period to 10 Years"

On June 7, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury Department issued new temporary regulations that have dramatic implications for all merger-and-acquisition activity by C corporations and real estate investment...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"FIRPTA Reform Impacts Investment Opportunities in US Real Estate"

In recent months, much has been written to describe the reforms to the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980 (FIRPTA) contained in the Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (the Act), which have been...more

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TechConnect - Your Law Firm Link to Industry News - February 2016

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As the Northeast begins (hopefully) to thaw out and we head into an early spring (so said the Groundhog), we are excited to deliver our new issue of TechConnect — our bimonthly newsletter on “all things technology” in the...more

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New Opportunity for 'C' Corporations to Convert to 'S' Corporations Under Recent Tax Law

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Since 1986, when the General Utilities doctrine (permitting corporate liquidations of regular or 'C' corporations to be tax-free to the corporation) was repealed, a barrier existed for 'C' corporations to convert to...more

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The Three Most Important Provisions for S Corporations Under PATH Act

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It has become a tradition that at the end of each year, Congress passes legislation to extend previous legislation. In late 2015, Congress passed Public Law 114-113, which contains the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act...more

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