Seth Eaton Discusses Modifications and Workouts of Commercial Real Estate Loans during the COVID-19 Pandemic
On June 24, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the U.S. Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) issued final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) on the application of the “passthrough deduction” under Section...more
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service recently issued proposed regulations (the Proposed Regulations) and Revenue Ruling 2018-29 (the QOZ Revenue Ruling), providing much anticipated guidance for Qualified...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) effected sweeping reform across the Internal Revenue Code. This report, and future installments, will discuss this legislation and other important tax guidance, including how such authorities...more
Earlier this year, President Trump issued Executive Order 13789, which ordered the Treasury Department to review all significant tax regulations issued after December 31, 2015 and identify regulations that impose an undue...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on July 7, 2017, in Notice 2017-38 (the Notice) that it has identified as "significant tax regulations" eight sets of U.S. federal tax regulations that were issued between Jan. 1,...more
EDITOR’S NOTE - Tax Talk doesn’t remember much about 1985. But we do remember that, after Ronald Reagan was re-elected president in 1984, tax reform was a very hot topic (remember the Tax Reform Act of 1985?). Anyway,...more
Significant Changes in US Tax System Likely - In the short time since the surprising election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States, much already has been written about the likelihood and likely...more
Editor's Note - Welcome to Tax Talk 9.02. By this fall, we may look back on Q2 2016 with some nostalgia. Of course, there is the U.S. presidential election on November 8th, but U.S. tax advisors right now are more...more
As in the 9 percent "amusement tax" that the city of Chicago recently extended to online streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime, triggering a series of lawsuits alleging that the newly expanded tax was illegally...more
On February 25, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman David Camp (R. Mich.) proposed a dramatic overhaul of the U.S. tax code (the Code). While the “Tax Reform Act of 2014,” (the Proposals) contains a number of previously...more