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Practical 1031: What is an Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchange?

Question: What is an Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchange? Answer: Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code allows a taxpayer who owns business or investment real estate to “exchange” the real estate the...more

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IRS: Use of "Attrition Allowance" to Calculate Rate Base Violates Normalization Consistency Rules

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Consistent with a state commission's existing regulatory policy, a utility's rate base for the first two years of the three-year rate cycle was computed using traditional cost-of-service/rate of return principles....more

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The IRS is Attacking Abusive Trust Arrangements

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Recent Government actions suggest that third-party promoters and potentially hundreds of taxpayers may be entering into abusive trust arrangements aimed at unlawfully eliminating or deferring federal income taxes....more

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Enough Already – Eliminate Downward Attribution and Accidental CFCs

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It’s Complicated- The Code includes a number of complex rules that are aimed at those overseas business and investment activities of U.S. taxpayers that Congress has determined may result in the improper deferral or...more

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Benefits Monthly Minute - January 2023

The Senate ushered in the New Year with a bang by passing SECURE 2.0 on December 22, 2022. SECURE 2.0 includes many updates to the sweeping changes brought about under 2019’s original SECURE Act legislation. The following are...more

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Weekly IRS Roundup December 5 – December 9, 2022

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of December 5, 2022 – December 9, 2022...more

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The Nonqualified Financial Property Limitation

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Since coming into effect in January 2018, Subchapter Z of the US Tax Code—also known as the opportunity zone provisions—has enabled investors to pour billions of dollars into a broad array of businesses, from real estate...more

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Canadian Corporations Acquiring U.S. Target Companies in Tax-Deferred Transactions: When Business Activities Outside the U.S....

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In transactions in which a Canadian corporation seeks to acquire a U.S. target entity for shares of the Canadian acquiror in a transaction intended to be tax-deferred for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the ability of U.S....more

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Additional Guidance Issued for President Biden’s American Jobs and American Families Plan

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In April 2021, President Biden announced the “American Families Plan,” which included some significant tax law changes. Among the proposed changes included in the “American Families Plan” was the increase of the tax rate that...more

Cozen O'Connor

IRS Issues Final Regulations Governing 1031 Exchanges – The “Like Kind” Standard Defined

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On November 23, 2020, Treasury and the IRS issued final regulations governing tax-deferred exchanges of like-kind real property under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code). These final regulations (T.D. 9935 )...more

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2020 End of Year Tax Planning for Businesses

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As the 2020 year draws to a close, businesses should review the tax-related provisions adopted in the CARES Act and related IRS guidance with their tax advisers: EMPLOYER REFUNDABLE CREDIT AND PAYROLL TAX DEFERRAL: -...more

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Executive Order Payroll Tax Deferral: Guidance and Considerations

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On August 8, 2020, the President of the United States issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the Secretary of the Treasury to use his authority pursuant to section 7508A of the Internal Revenue Code to defer the...more

Brooks Pierce

What Employers Should Know About Deferring Employee Payroll Tax

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On Aug. 8, 2020, President Trump issued a memorandum calling for the Secretary of Treasury to allow for the deferral of payroll tax withholding on the employee portion of certain payroll taxes. This memorandum is separate...more

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Potential Payroll Tax Deferral Is Available – Employers Must Understand the Program and Use Extreme Caution Before Blindly Jumping...

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On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued an executive order, directing the U.S. Treasury to grant employers the ability to defer the withholding, deposit and payment of certain payroll taxes as further COVID-19 tax relief....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

IRS Uses Few Words to Implement Proposed Payroll Tax Deferral, but Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

Background - The Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") provides the Secretary of the Treasury with the authority to delay tax deadlines in times of national emergency....more

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THE WAY WE WERE - Using Loan Method Split Dollar to Recreate the Benefit of Tax Deferral for Carried Interest

Hedge Fund managers previously had an unprecedented ability to defer their carried interest in the offshore hedge funds that they manage. IRC Sec. 409A put an end to those deferrals and required hedge fund managers to...more

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Executive Order on Deferring Payroll Taxes - Frequently Asked Questions

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On August 8, 2020, the President issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the Secretary of the Treasury to use his authority to defer withholding, deposit, and payment of certain payroll tax obligations (the “Executive...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Employers Have Little Incentive to Implement Social Security Tax Deferral Under New IRS Released Guidance

On Friday August 28th the IRS issued limited guidance on the payroll tax deferral that was part of President Trump’s August 8th executive order. Under IRS Notice 2020-65 (the “Notice”), employers are not required to withhold...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Guidance on Directive to Defer Payroll Tax Obligations Leaves Unanswered Questions

On August 8, 2020, the President directed the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize the deferment of certain payroll tax withholding, depositing, and payment obligations otherwise incurred on wages and compensation paid...more

Burr & Forman

Employee Payroll Tax Deferral—What Could Go Wrong?

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In March, Congress passed the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) to aid businesses and individuals. One CARES Act relief provision offered the deferral of certain payroll taxes. In particular,...more

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The SECURE Act Brings Significant Changes for Retirement Plans and IRAs

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The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act), signed into law on Dec. 20, 2019, will have a wide-ranging impact on tax-qualified retirement plans and individual retirement accounts,...more

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Puerto Rico Department of the Treasury Announces 2020 Limits on Qualified Retirement Plans

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On December 28, 2019, the Puerto Rico Department of the Treasury issued Internal Revenue Circular Letter No. 19-17 (CL IR 19-17) announcing the applicable limits for Puerto Rico qualified retirement plans for 2020....more

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IRS and Treasury Release Final Opportunity Zone Regulations

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On December 19th, 2019, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued regulations (the “Final Regulations”) under Section 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”)[i] finalizing,...more

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Weekly IRS Roundup December 16 – 20, 2019

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of December 16 – 20, 2019. December 16, 2019: The IRS released a notice extending the phase-in...more

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Where there’s smoke there’s fire? IRS simplifies income deferral rules with issuance of final regulations to repeal Treas. Reg. §...

On July 11, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (Service) and Department of Treasury (Treasury) issued final regulations to remove Treas. Reg. § 1.451-5, which allowed taxpayers to delay reporting income with respect to...more

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