The Corporate Law Report: First-to-File Patents, Hiring for Cultural Fit, Roth Conversions Post-Fiscal Cliff, and Global Corporate Insights
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (“Appropriations Act”) was signed by President Biden and became law on December 29, 2022. Included in the Appropriations Act is the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“Secure Act”), which...more
The long-awaited sequel to the SECURE Act enacted in 2019 is finally here. On December 29, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, which includes the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”...more
The Build Back Better Act, the “social infrastructure” bill that was approved by the House of Representatives on November 19, 2021, includes new restrictions on so-called “backdoor Roth” conversions. Accordingly, if the...more
Overview - For many years, the name of the game in retirement planning for income and estate tax purposes has been to maximize the tax deferral of qualified retirement and IRA accounts while preserving the ability to...more
On December 15, 2017, the House and Senate conference committee agreed on the terms of the final tax reform bill, previously referred to as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (the “Act”), which was subsequently approved by both...more
On December 22, 2017, the tax reform bill, informally known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”), was signed by President Trump. As we noted in our prior OnPoint (available here) with respect to earlier versions of the...more
The Committee on Ways and Means yesterday released the proposed Republican tax reform bill, titled the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act." Although the proposed bill makes major changes to individual and corporate tax provisions in many...more
The newly enacted American Taxpayer Relief Act (H.R. 8) includes a significant new opportunity to perform “in-plan” conversions of pretax dollars to Roth (after-tax) dollars of funds held in defined contribution retirement...more