The Office of Inspector General’s (“OIG”) new Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) regulations modify the safe harbor for personal services and management contracts (42 CFR § 1001.952(d)) in a manner that allows providers...more
The Situation: The Office of Inspector General ("OIG") recently modified the personal services and management contracts safe harbor of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute ("AKS"). These modifications expand protections to...more
As discussed in our Client Alert issued on December 10, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued two long-awaited final...more
In the past few years, the IRS has changed its guidance on whether “management contracts” result in private business use for purposes of the restrictions on use of property financed with tax-exempt bonds. This update...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Revenue Procedure 2017-13 (Rev. Proc. 2017-13) on Jan. 17, 2017. The procedure provides more flexible, modern rules for structuring management contracts involving tax-exempt financed...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this year released Rev. Proc. 2017-13 (the Guidelines), which contained new safe harbors for qualified management contracts relating to facilities financed with tax-exempt bonds. The...more
For the third time in as many years, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) has issued guidance for determining whether a management contract will result in private business use for property financed with governmental or...more
In August, 2016, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2016-44, the first comprehensive revision of its management contract safe harbors since Revenue Procedure 97-13. Rev. Proc. 2016-44 built upon and amplified principles laid...more
Over a thousand US public finance attorneys converged on the City of Chicago last week for the annual National Association of Bond Lawyers Bond Attorneys Workshop. The conference, the oldest and largest of its kind, featured...more
Recently, the IRS released a safe harbor from private use of tax-exempt bond-financed facilities for management contracts that profoundly changes the safe harbors that have been in place under Rev. Proc. 97-13 for almost 20...more
The Internal Revenue Service recently issued guidance in Rev. Proc. 2016-44 that meaningfully expands the safe harbors pertaining to management contracts affecting bond-financed property such as professional services...more
Revenue Procedure 2016-44 replaces the long-standing safe harbors in Revenue Procedure 97-13 for analyzing private business use under management contracts with a more flexible safe harbor, but requires specific provisions in...more
Update to August 24th Client Alert: Note: As published September 6, 2016 in the Internal Revenue Bulletin, the Internal Revenue Service has extended the transition period with respect to Revenue Procedure 2016-44 to...more
On Monday, August 22, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued Revenue Procedure 16-44 (“Rev. Proc. 16-44”), which revises and expands the safe harbor provisions for long-term management contracts relating to property...more
The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released Revenue Procedure 2016-44 (“Rev. Proc. 2016-44”) on August 22, 2016 to provide new safe harbors for management contracts to avoid characterization of such contracts as private...more
On August 22, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2016-44 (2016-44) and then modified 2016-44 on September 2, 2016. This revenue procedure was a response from the IRS to a longstanding request...more
The Internal Revenue Service, in Revenue Procedure 2016-44, has loosened the restrictions on safe harbors for management contracts entered into by governmental issuers of tax-exempt bonds in connection with facilities...more
State and local governments and 501(c)(3) organizations have been given very flexible guidance by the IRS for longer-term private management of tax-exempt bond financed projects to facilitate general operations and major...more
On August 22, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Rev. Proc. 2016-44, which provides new guidance on the treatment of “management contracts” for purposes of the restrictions on use of property financed with...more
The IRS on August 22, 2016 released long-anticipated Revenue Procedure 2016-44 (Rev. Proc. 2016-44), which substantially increases flexibility in, and provides a less formulaic approach to, the ability of a tax-exempt bond...more
The Internal Revenue Service on August 22, 2016 released Revenue Procedure 2016-44 which revises the safe harbor guidelines for management contracts of service providers for tax-exempt financed facilities, under which the...more
Coming as welcome news to those involved in the municipal bond market, Revenue Procedure 2016-44 provides helpful guidance for governmental issuers and 501(c)(3) borrowers entering into long-term contracts with private...more