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Polsinelli Commentary on the Final Opportunity Zone Regulations

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Treasury issued final Opportunity Zone Regulations on December 19, 2019 (“Final Regulations”).  These Final Regulations update the first two rounds of Proposed Regulations (issued on October 29, 2018 and April 17, 2019)....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Final Regulations Clarify and Liberalize Many Rules Governing Qualified Opportunity Fund Formation and Operations

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 19, 2019, the U.S. Treasury issued final Qualified Opportunity Zone regulations (the “Final QOZ Regulations”). Subject to the commentary in the Preamble to the Final QOZ Regulations on circular...more

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Treasury Releases Final Regulations for Investing in Qualified Opportunity Zones

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On December 19, 2019, the Treasury Department released final regulations on the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program first enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Final regulations provide additional safe harbors...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

TAX ALERT: Final QOZ Regulations: 8 Important Changes You Should Know

The IRS issued final QOZ regulations at the end of 2019, almost two years after Qualified Opportunity Zones (“QOZs”) were introduced to investors in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. These regulations finalized the proposed...more

Stinson LLP

Opportunity Zone Final Guidance

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The Treasury Department released final Opportunity Zone regulations on December 19, which combine and clarify the prior two sets of guidance, as well as an FAQ summary....more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Final Opportunity Zone Treasury Regulations Released

On Thursday, December 19th, the U.S. Department of Treasury released the long-awaited final Opportunity Zone Treasury Regulations (the “Final Regulations”). The Final Regulations and explanatory materials that span 544 pages,...more

Troutman Pepper

Highlights of New Opportunity Zone Regulations

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In April, the Department of the Treasury released the second round of regulations related to the opportunity zone program. Some highlights include... Originally published in Middle Market Growth, the official publication...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

How Struggling Orchestras are Like Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds

Symphony orchestras are important to their communities and to developing young talent, but they are struggling. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the downtown areas of many cities also struggle to remain vital, as they...more

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Solar Development in Opportunity Zones

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The Opportunity Zones program is an attractive option for industrial-scale solar energy producers seeking to develop new projects that receive preferential tax treatment. Designed to stimulate economic development in...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Opportunity Zones Update: New Proposed Treasury Regulations (Part II)

Qualified Opportunity Zone Businesses - BACKGROUND - In December 2017, as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), Congress established a new tax incentive program to promote investment in certain low-income...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Treasury Provides Additional Guidance on Opportunity Zone Provisions

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 introduced Opportunity Zone Provisions, IRC Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2, as an incentive to encourage investment in low-income communities. The provisions allow taxpayers to defer tax on...more

Bracewell LLP

Is the Opportunity Now a Reality? IRS and Treasury Release Second Tranche of Opportunity Zone Regulations

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After months of waiting, the IRS and the Treasury Department have released a second set of proposed regulations (the “Second Tranche”) relating to the opportunity zone provisions enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...more

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Guide to the Surprises Lurking in the QOZ Proposed Regulations

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While mid-April is typically associated by most with Tax Day, this year, April 2019, also became the month the highly awaited second round of Qualified Opportunity Zone Proposed Regulations were issued....more

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The Second Tranche of Opportunity Zone Regulations: Answers to “Substantially All” of Our Lingering Questions

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On April 17, 2019, the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released their highly anticipated second tranche of qualified opportunity zone (“OZ”) proposed regulations. This second set of proposed...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

The IRS and Treasury Department Issue Further Guidance on Qualified Opportunity Zones

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”) established a program to provide preferential tax treatment for new investments made after December 31, 2017 in certain tracts of land in economically-distressed communities, known...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Treasury Issues New Proposed Qualified Opportunity Zone Regulations

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The Department of the Treasury on April 17 released a highly anticipated second round of proposed regulations regarding investments in qualified opportunity zones. The opportunity zone incentive was enacted as part of the Tax...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Opportunity Zones Observers Await Review of IRS Proposed Guidance

Economic development in distressed communities is ramping up as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Treasury Department update and finalize guidance released last October to govern investments in Opportunity Zones....more

Bowditch & Dewey

Op Funds Expand Deferral Paths for CRE Investors

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BOSTON — The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 created the Opportunity Zone program which provides real estate investors a new tool to defer gains from sales or exchanges of capital assets by investing those gains in a “Qualified...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Opportunity Zones Update

Background – In December 2017, as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), Congress established a new tax incentive program to promote investment in certain low-income communities designated by the IRS as qualified...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Treasury Issues Proposed Regulations on Opportunity Zones

On October 19, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations relating to the new Opportunity Zone program....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Opportunity Zones: New Guidance Sheds Light on How Private Equity Industry Can Take Advantage

• Proposed regulations issued on October 19 provide welcome guidance to asset managers regarding the formation of qualified opportunity funds (QOFs) that may provide investors with the following three tax benefits: (1)...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Investment Management Update

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Rewards and Risks in Opportunity Zone Funds - H.R. 1—informally known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—became law on December 22, 2017. Included in the Act is a new program intended to spur the reallocation of investments...more

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