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On April 12, 2024, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed Treasury Regulations (REG-115710-22) providing comprehensive guidance for applying the one-percent excise tax owed on corporate...more
On March 11, 2024, the Biden Administration released the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget, and the “General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals,” which is commonly referred to as the “Green Book.”...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS intend to issue proposed regulations addressing application of a new excise tax on repurchases of corporate stock under Section 4501 of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). Section...more
One of the headline tax changes in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Public Law 117-169, is a 1% excise tax on stock repurchases by public companies. New Section 4501 of the Internal Revenue Code applies a non-deductible...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which was signed into law on August 16, 2022, enacted a new 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of the stock of publicly traded corporations, codified in Section 4501 of the Internal...more
In 2020 and 2021, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) were all the rage. A SPAC is a “blank check company,” publicly traded, and organized for the purpose of merging with a private company. It’s a mechanism for a...more
Over the past year, SPACs have been through market shifts, regulatory thrashing, economic issues, novel litigation theories, and SEC enforcement actions. I touched on all of these in my previous post, but for this month’s...more
Just last week, special purpose acquisition company The Music Acquisition Corporation (“TMAC”) called a special meeting of its stockholders. It wasn’t the special meeting it originally envisioned. TMAC was launched in...more