Insider Transaction Traps for the Unwary
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Insider Transactions and Nonprofits
Nonprofit Basics: IRS 10-Course Charity Workshop
Nonprofit Basics: Unrelated Business Income Tax: Modifications and Exceptions - Part 2
Nonprofit Basics: Unrelated Business Income Tax: Basic Rules for Charities - Part 1
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - IRS Clarifies Emergency Distributions Tax Exceptions
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in North Carolina and South Carolina
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Private Foundation Advocacy
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Legislative Lobbying and Advocacy Rules for Public Charities
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Candidate Campaign Intervention
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 176: Tax Exempt Healthcare Entities with Jim Pool, Maynard Nexsen Health Care Attorney
Scrutiny Around the Hospital Tax-Exempt Status
Nonprofit Basics: What Nonprofits Need To Know About Expenditure Responsibility Grant Requirements
Podcast - Charity Care: A Discussion on Tax-Exempt Hospitals
Nonprofit Basics: Document Retention Policies and Subpoenas, and a Conversation With Aviva Gilbert on Why Good Policies Matter
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 3: Private Foundation Approaches to Policy Advocacy Allowed by the Internal Revenue Code
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 2: Legislative Lobbying Activities by Public Charities
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 1: Candidate Campaign Intervention
Change of Control: Golden Parachute Rules in the Sale Process
The race to remake portions of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) and to prevent expiration of certain Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) provisions has begun, with House Ways & Means Committee proposals (the Markup) to spend...more
On Monday, Republicans unveiled their much anticipated Tax Bill (the “Bill”). At 389 pages, the Bill contains a number of provisions. Some are simply extensions of previous provisions that were sunsetting at the end of 2025....more
Check out our summary of recent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance for February 17, 2025 – March 14, 2025. Editors’ note: With the change in presidential administrations, the IRS has undergone significant transition...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations providing guidance on how to interpret and implement changes to "catch-up" contributions made by the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0). The regulations mainly...more
Changes effective starting on January 1, 2027 - In the last few days preceding President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the IRS under the Biden administration proposed regulations to implement amendments to Internal Revenue...more
La loi de finances pour 2025 prévoit l’instauration d’un régime fiscal et social spécifique pour les gains réalisés par les managers à raison des participations qu’ils détiennent dans les groupes dans lesquels ils exercent...more
On January 10, 2025, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations related to two new catch-up contribution provisions under the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0): (1) the...more
On January 16, 2025, the IRS issued proposed regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), which limit the amount of compensation a publicly held corporation may deduct for wages paid to...more
With a new administration in the White House, tax legislation will certainly be on the plate. As we know with the last tax bill, great tax deductions and subsidies could be on the chopping block to pay for tax cuts. ...more
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act), signed into law on Dec. 20, 2019, will have a wide-ranging impact on tax-qualified retirement plans and individual retirement accounts,...more
Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code denies a tax deduction to a public company for compensation paid to certain individuals—called “covered employees”—to the extent that the compensation paid to such individual...more
Section 402(f) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) requires plan sponsors to give written explanations of tax implications to recipients of qualified retirement plan distributions eligible for rollover treatment, often...more
• The recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the Act), enacted on Dec. 22, 2017, contains a few rules that will impact benefit administrators. • This client alert focuses on changes made to the tax treatment of plan loan...more
In early November, I posted an article entitled “Tax Reform Proposal Nixes Favorable Tax Treatment of Several Employee Benefits”. That article reviewed the Ways and Means Committee’s proposal (H.R. 1, the Tax Reform and Jobs...more
On Dec. 22, President Trump signed into law the 2017 Tax Act, the most comprehensive set of changes to the Internal Revenue Code since 1986. Some of the changes affect executive compensation and employee benefits. Because...more
On December 20, 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act), which President Trump indicated he would sign. It is a sweeping tax bill with the potential to significantly alter executive compensation and employee...more
This is the first issue in a planned series of alerts for employers on selected topics on tax reform. The series of Tax Reform Management Alerts is designed to provide an in-depth analysis of executive compensation and...more
This WSGR Alert provides a high-level comparison of the latest tax reform proposals from the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate as they relate to compensation and benefits matters....more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as initially proposed by the U.S. House of Representatives on November 2, 2017, includes provisions that would dramatically impact many common incentive and deferred compensation programs, including...more
On November 3, 2017, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Brody began the legislative consideration of Tax Reform by releasing an amendment (in the nature of a substitute) to the Tax Reform and Jobs Act (H.R. 1 hereinafter...more
The Joint Committee on Taxation released a description of the Senate Chairman’s Mark to the proposed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on November 9, 2017, reintroducing adverse equity and performance-based compensation tax provisions...more
On November 2, 2017, the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives released its tax reform bill titled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “House Bill”). On November 6, 2017, Kevin Brady, Chairman of the...more
The new draft tax bill, unveiled last week by the Trump administration has many provisions which would significantly affect many businesses in the United States. This post does not focus on all of the implications for the...more
On November 2, 2017, Congressman Kevin Brady of Texas, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Proposed Bill") in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Proposed Bill...more
On November 2, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) (the “Bill”) as part of proposed tax reform legislation. The Bill is sweeping in scope and provides for significant changes to...more