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
Code Section 409A - Six Month Delay
A parent will sometimes transfer money to a child to enable the child to make an investment that the child could not otherwise make on their own. For example, the child may have identified an attractive business opportunity...more
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 1202 offers a significant tax incentive for investors in qualified small business stock (QSBS). This provision allows eligible shareholders to exclude up to 100% of capital gains realized...more
A common structure for equity REITs, the UPREIT model allows a REIT to hold and operate its assets through a single operating partnership. This structure provides tax advantages and liquidity opportunities for property...more
Private foundations providing support, resources, and advocacy for individuals and families affected by rare diseases have played an important role for more than 30 years in the advancement of treatments for rare diseases....more
On February 6, 2025, Democratic Senators and Representatives proposed the Carried Interest Fairness Act, which would treat carried interest as ordinary income. Additionally, on the same day President Trump met with...more
President Trump has indicated that one of his key economic priorities is to extend the expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). However, Congress still needs to resolve disagreements on the cost and funding of...more
Qualified Opportunity Funds (QOFs) offer generous tax incentives but are bound by a complicated set of rules, not to mention the complexity of Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), as QOFs are typically organized...more
In recent years, the utilization of qualified small business stock (“QSBS”) has grown considerably. Many businesses are formed as corporations at conception, private equity investors calculate the tax benefits from Section...more
Recently (January 15th) I celebrated my sixty fifth birthday. Where did the time go? If my East German father Willy Wolfgang Nowotny were still with us, I could hear him say, “Too soon old, too late smart.” While I was never...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) published final regulations on January 14, 2025 (the “Regulations”) requiring taxpayers and their material advisors to disclose...more
The “qualified small business stock” (QSBS) tax exemption under Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code allows non-corporate founders and investors in certain emerging growth companies organized as corporations to...more
The use of private placement life insurance (PPLI) by high-net-worth individuals has generated considerable controversy over the years, with proponents arguing that it is a proper use of existing laws that provide many of the...more
In August 2022, the United States (U.S.) Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”), landmark legislation that modified and extended the longstanding 30% investment tax credit (ITC) for solar photovoltaic...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”) now allows firms to develop and sell clean energy tax credits. In our last update, we discussed how the emerging market for tax insurance may provide comfort to prospective...more
Since 1916, Congress has exempted from income taxation clubs formed to facilitate social interaction between its members. As a result, country clubs, hunting and fishing clubs, college sororities and fraternities, and...more
Assume that X and Y agree to the following: X will transfer ownership of Prop to Y, and Y will transfer cash to X. What just happened? Obviously, X has sold Prop to Y. If the amount of cash that X receives is greater than...more
On March 5, 2024, the IRS issued final regulations under Internal Revenue Code Section 6417 (the “Final Regulations”) with respect to energy tax credits which are directly payable to State and local governmental entities as...more
In a previous article, we introduced the fundamental concepts of the yield restriction and rebate rules set out in the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations and how tax-exempt bonds may be affected by high interest...more
On April 2, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its final amendment to prohibited transaction class exemption 84-14 (the QPAM Exemption). The QPAM Exemption is a broad-based class exemption relied upon by many...more
Judge Batten, Chief United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, handed down lengthy sentences in the first-of-its-kind criminal trial related to syndicated conservation easements (“SCEs”). On January...more
On November 22, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department released proposed regulations (the Proposed Regulations) relating to the investment tax credit (the ITC) under Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code...more
Since the enactment of the statutory donor-advised fund (“DAF”) rules under the Pension Protection Act of 2006, sponsoring organizations that manage DAF programs have relied on the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC” or the “Code”)...more
Are you concerned about the high IRS tax rates on a foreign trust? It is important to understand the tax and reporting consequences on this specific type of investment. It may very well be time to evaluate the net value of...more
In 2013, the net investment income tax (NIIT) found in Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 1411 went into effect. Since then, United States taxpayers residing outside of the US have lived with uncertainty as to whether the...more
Real estate developers have long had ample reasons to take on projects involving historic buildings, courtesy of Section 47 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. As amended, Section 47 (the “Code”) provides for a...more