Tax Talk with Josh Wykle – The Big Beautiful Bill & Overtime Deductions: What's the Tea in L&E?
The Federal Tax Deductions for Tips and Overtime Pay: Opportunities for Restaurants Employers
The Impact of One Big Beautiful Bill on Estate Planning
The Opportunity Zone (OZ) program, originally enacted under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was designed to stimulate private investment in low-income communities by offering significant tax benefits to investors who reinvest...more
The enactment earlier this year of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”)generated a fair amount of excitement in the business community. If one had to identify a single provision of the Act in which the owners and...more
Starting on July 5, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) has amended Internal Revenue Code Section 1202 to provide additional benefits to owners of qualified small business stock (also known as QSBS within the meaning...more
Two of the new and important tax changes made by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) allow the full and immediate expensing of certain business assets placed in service during the taxable year. This occurs under changes...more
The IRS recently issued Notice 2025-50 for the purpose of identifying each designated qualified opportunity zone (a “QOZ”) census tract that qualifies as a “Rural Area” for purposes of the recently enacted One Big Beautiful...more
The Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) § 1202 provides for an exclusion from gain on the sale of qualified small business stock (“QSBS”), up to $15 million (or 10 times the stock’s adjusted basis), if certain conditions are met....more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”), which enacts significant changes to federal tax provisions. Among the changes, OBBBA adds “qualified sound recording productions” as a...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is big news for closely held businesses. Signed into law on July 4, 2025, by President Trump, the massive spending and tax package made many provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs...more
Effective charitable planning was already an intricate and complex process before the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) in July of 2025. The new legislation, while making swaths of changes to the charitable...more
This is the third and final installment in our multi-part series exploring the key implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). This follows parts 1 and 2 of this series which discussed the no tax on tips and...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law on December 22, 2017 (the TCJA), authorized the opportunity zone tax incentive program (the OZ Program) to encourage investment in low-income community businesses....more
I recently wrote about Opportunity Zones (“QOZs”), how they work and how they can be utilized for preferential tax treatment on certain investments. I closed that piece by stating that the current administration was a big fan...more
Depreciation plays a crucial role in real estate investing, directly impacting how much income investors report and how much tax they pay. Under Section 168(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, the costs of certain business...more
Significant changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“H.R. 1”) have made Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code an even more valuable tax break for small business owners and investors. These updates expand who can...more
Stock qualifying under Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), as Qualified Small Business Stock (“QSBS”) allows eligible non-corporate taxpayers to potentially exclude a portion or all of...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”), which was signed into law on July 4, 2025, contained a big, beautiful surprise for qualified small business stock (“QSBS”) investors. Individual investors, private equity funds...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “OBBB”), which makes a number of highly beneficial changes to the tax treatment of Qualified Small Business Stock (“QSBS”) acquired by...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “O3BA”), signed into law on July 4, 2025, affects charitable donors and the organizations they support. While most relevant provisions apply for tax years beginning on or after January 1,...more
Welcome to this edition of the FP Manufacturing Snapshot, where we take a quick look at a recent significant workplace law development with an emphasis on how it impacts employers in the manufacturing sector. This edition is...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law on July 4, 2025. As part of the OBBBA, Congress has recharged and permanently extended the tax benefits offered by the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program. ...more
The United States recently passed tax legislation called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), a follow-up to the 2017 Trump tax cuts. While the bill is American, many Canadian families with cross-border ties, including...more
On July 4, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) became law and included some tweaks to the prior 2017 qualified opportunity zone (QOZ) tax legislation. The original QOZ rules, created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017,...more
On July 4, President Trump signed into law the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA),” more formally known as “H.R.1 – An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.”...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law on July 4, 2025. The legislation permanently extends some of the changes to the tax code first introduced in 2018 while adding additional provisions designed to...more
Please join Williams Mullen attorneys Jenny Connors and Anna Derewenda as they break down two of the most powerful tax strategies available today - Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZ) and Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) ...more