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On September 12, 2024, the Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued long-awaited proposed regulations (89 FR 75062) (the “Proposed Regulations”) on the application of the...more
The IRS recently issued private letter ruling (PLR) 107770-22 that involved a normalization issue of first impression, namely, whether payments received by a utility pursuant to an intercompany tax allocation agreement (TAA)...more
Consistent with a state commission's existing regulatory policy, a utility's rate base for the first two years of the three-year rate cycle was computed using traditional cost-of-service/rate of return principles....more
There shall be allowed as a deduction, an amount equal to the cost of energy efficient commercial building property (EECBP) placed in service during the taxable year. Maximum amount of deduction: the product of the...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of February 6, 2023 – February 10, 2023...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of April 17, 2022 – April 23, 2022... April 18, 2022: The IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2022-9,...more
On December 17, 2021, the IRS released Private Letter Ruling 202150003 where it concluded that a Taxpayer would not violate the normalization rules if it ratably amortized its Protected EDIT (defined below) pursuant to an...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of August 2, 2021 – August 6, 2021... August 3, 2021: The IRS issued a news release as part of a...more
In a new Revenue Ruling, the IRS addresses the scope, ownership, and placed-in-service date for carbon capture equipment. Key Points: ..Developers adding carbon capture equipment to an existing industrial facility now...more
Recently released Revenue Procedure 2021-26 (the Revenue Procedure) provides taxpayers with guidance regarding accounting method changes made on behalf of foreign corporations. The Revenue Procedure: ..Allows controlled...more
Under the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section 162, ordinary and necessary business expenses are deductible, but Code Section 263 disallows a deduction for capital expenditures (“no deduction shall be allowed” for a capital...more
“Yeah, I’m the Tax Man” Last week, several media outlets reported that Mr. Biden will soon propose that Congress increase the federal income tax rate applicable to long-term capital gains recognized by individual...more
The Treasury Department and the IRS received 21 written comments in response to the like-kind exchange proposed regulations (see our earlier alert). The recently issued final IRS like-kind exchange regulations adopt some...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of November 2, 2020 – November 6, 2020... November 2, 2020: The IRS announced COVID-19-related...more
On August, 15, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued PLR 202033002, in which it addressed whether cost of removal (COR) is “protected” by the normalization rules of section 168(i)(9). COR is often embedded in a...more
The 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) limited like-kind exchanges occurring after 2017 to “real property held for productive use in a trade or business or investment if such real property is exchanged for real property of a...more
Before the enactment of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property had a 15-year recovery period for depreciation...more
Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), qualified improvement property (QIP) was unintentionally classified as nonresidential real property and therefore did not qualify for bonus depreciation. The Coronavirus Aid,...more
The IRS on Friday released Rev. Proc. 2020-25 to provide guidance for taxpayers who may benefit from the recent correction by the CARES Act of the so-called “retail glitch” (a drafting error in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act)...more
Economists maintain that income generated from an expensed capital asset is tax-free. We can’t verify that claim. We can confirm that expensing capital assets enhances investment returns. For this reason, bonus depreciation...more
On September 13, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued final and reproposed regulations under § 168(k) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), the provision of the Tax Cuts...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) provided the most comprehensive update to the tax code in over two decades. Of the many changes the TCJA provided, Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2 of the IRC are of the most heavily discussed...more
On November 19, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department (Treasury) issued final regulations (T.D. 9843) that address taxpayers’ use of negative amounts in calculating additional costs for purposes...more
The affiliated group of which a taxpayer-utility was a wholly owned subsidiary filed tax returns on which it did not claim bonus depreciation since the availability of bonus depreciation had temporarily expired. Following the...more
Last year, the federal government enacted the most substantial tax reform legislation since 1986 in Public Law 115-97, commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). Of the many business-friendly changes,...more